Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories

by Vilius Dranseika, Bert Gordijn, Dónal P O'Mathúna

Book Overview

This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise in relation to disasters can be addressed from a number...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 101327248X
• ISBN13: 9781013272486
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"