TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bavel,B.J.P.van
AU  - Curtis,Daniel R
AU  - Dijkman,Jessica
AU  - Hannaford,Matthew
AU  - De Keyzer,Maïka
AU  - Van Onacker,Eline
AU  - Soens,Tim
TI  - Disasters and history: the vulnerability and resilience of past societies 
SN  - 9781108477178
AV  - HV 551.2 D57 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Emergency management
KW  - Research
KW  - Disasters
KW  - History
KW  - Natural disasters
KW  - Hazard mitigation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "This monograph provides an overview of research into disasters from a historical perspective, making two new contributions. First, it introduces the field of 'disaster studies' to history, showing how we can use history to better understand how societies deal with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. Despite growing recognition of the importance of historical depth by scholars investigating disasters, the temporal dimensions of disasters have been underexploited up to now. Moreover, the historical record sometimes enables us to make a long-term reconstruction of the social, economic and cultural effects of hazards and shocks simply not possible in contemporary disaster studies material. We can therefore use 'the past' as a laboratory to test hypotheses of relevance to the present in a careful way. History lends itself towards this end because of the opportunity it offers to identify distinct and divergent social and environmental patterns and trajectories. We can compare the drivers and constraints of societal responses to shocks spatially and chronologically, and therefore enrich our understanding of responses to stress today"--
UR  - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XnYN8RDEVfaSupGOUqbHOvkYEmGLGjzh/view?usp=sharing
ER  -