%0 Journal Article
%T Disasters as Non-routine Social Problems -- 1
%J International journal of mass emergencies and disasters
%D 1989
%A Drabek, Thomas E.
%V 7
%N 3
%P 253-264
%X What is a disaster? Why ask the question? Does it make any difference how we answer either of these questions? Kreps has written a provocative and stimulating response to all three of these questions. Surely his response will stimulate others to ponder a wide range of issues in ways that they have not done so heretofore. After rereading his analysis several times, I identified three areas of personal reaction pertaining to: (1) convergence; (2) divergence; and (3) disasters as non-routine social problems.<p />
%G 
%I International Sociological Association, International Research Committee on Disasters
%@ 0280-7270
%U http://dx.doi.org/