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Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses - Case Studies toward a Global Environmental History (Paperback, New)
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Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses - Case Studies toward a Global Environmental History (Paperback, New)
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Catastrophes, it seems, are becoming more frequent in the
twenty-first century. According to UN statistics, every year
approximately two hundred million people are directly affected by
natural disasters_seven times the number of people who are affected
by war. Discussions about global warming and fatal disasters such
as Katrina and the Tsunami of 2004 have heightened our awareness of
natural disasters and of their impact on both local and global
communities. Hollywood has also produced numerous disaster movies
in recent years, some of which have become blockbusters. This
volume demonstrates that natural catastrophes_earthquakes,
hurricanes, floods, etc._have exercised a vast impact on humans
throughout history and in almost every part of the world. It argues
that human attitudes toward catastrophes have changed over time.
Surprisingly, this has not necessarily led to a reduction of
exposure or risk. The organization of the book resembles a journey
around the globe_from Europe to North Africa, the Middle East, and
Asia, and from the Pacific through South America and Mexico to the
United States. While natural disasters appear everywhere on the
globe, different cultures, societies, and nations have adopted
specific styles for coping with disaster. Indeed, how humans deal
with catastrophes depends largely on social and cultural patterns,
values, religious belief systems, political institutions, and
economic structures. The roles that catastrophes play in society
and the meanings they are given vary from one region to the next;
they differ_and this is one of the principal arguments of this
book_from one cultural, political, and geographic space to the
next. The essays collected here help us to understand not only how
people in different times throughout history have learned to cope
with disaster but also how humans in different parts of the world
have developed specific cultural, social, and technological
strategies for doing so.
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