TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1995//
TI  - Studying Disaster: A Review of the Main Conceptual Tools
JO  - International journal of mass emergencies and disasters
A1  - Gilbert, C
SP  - 231
EP  - 240
VL  - 13
IS  - 3
N2  - The numerous theoretical approaches to disasters can be classified into three main paradigms. We present their content, chronological developments, and cleavages. The first is disaster as a duplication of war (catastrophe can be imputed to an external agent; human communities are entities that react globally against an aggression). The second is disaster as an expression of social vulnerabilities (disaster is the result of underlying community logic, of an inward and social process). The third is disaster as an entrance into a state of uncertainty (disaster is tightly tied into the impossibility of defining real or supposed dangers, especially after the upsetting of the mental frameworks we use to know and understand reality).<p />
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SN  - 0280-7270
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -