Overview
- Clarifies and broadens the varied definitions of disaster offered by relief organizations
- Systematically reviews a half century of disasters worldwide
- Analyzes societal and environmental risk and protective factors that can influence the course of disasters
- Provides comprehensive models for causes of, and behavioral responses to, disasters, using in-depth examples from the U.S. and abroad
- Applies both models to the World Trade Center attacks, with implications for the public health field
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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The Study of Disasters
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Causes of Disasters
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Behavioral Consequences of Disasters
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Causes and Behavioral Consequences of Disasters
Book Subtitle: Models informed by the global experience 1950-2005
Authors: Sasha Rudenstine, Sandro Galea
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0317-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-0316-6Published: 17 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9188-1Published: 27 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-0317-3Published: 18 September 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 156
Topics: Public Health