Disasters: A Sociological Approach

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across nations and populations. Every disaster has social forces at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and the global, national, and local processes that produce environmental degradation and disaster.

Topics covered include the social roots of disaster vulnerability, exposure to natural hazards as a form of environmental injustice, and emerg...