Overview
Delivers the results of an interdisciplinary study examining dealing with catastrophes by an international group of experts
Composed of eight diverse perspectives on historical catastrophes – spanning catastrophic events from geology to economics, political science and medicine
Presented via easy-to-understand language and with numerous illustrations
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Scientific disciplines have their own view on catastrophes. Here, natural scientists, engineers, physicians as well as historians and social scientists define and discuss geo-hazards and associated technical disasters, natural disasters as a business case, medicine and its catastrophes. After war aspects of the Shoah are described with Gershom Sholem´s Concept of Jewish Totality, and the situation of Displaced Persons in Germany as well as the Nakba for Palestinians related to the happiness of Jews celebrating their new State of Israel. The book also reminds of Hamburg’s Flood Disaster in 1962, the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and other historical catastrophes in Japan, the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 and the Age of Enlightenment, and the eruption of the Tambora in 1815 followed by the “year without summer”.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Catastrophes
Book Subtitle: Views from Natural and Human Sciences
Editors: Andreas Hoppe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20846-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20845-9Published: 04 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-79320-7Published: 27 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20846-6Published: 25 November 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 155
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Science, Historical Geology, International Relations, Medicine/Public Health, general, Environmental Economics