Disaster Research: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives

Book Overview

This book is is structured thematically around key approaches to disaster research from a range of different, but often complementary academic disciplines. Each chapter presents distinct approaches to disaster research that is anchored in a particular discipline; ranging from the law of disasters and disaster historiography to disaster politics and anthropology of disaster. The methodological and theoretical contributions underlining a specific approach to disasters are discussed and illustrative empirical cases are examined that support and further inform the proposed approach to disaster research.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138051616
• ISBN13: 9781138051614
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"