Living Conditions, Disasters, and Development: An Approach to Cross-Cultural Comparisons

by Walter Gilllis Peacock, Frederick L. Bates, Walter Gillis Peacock

Book Overview

Because most environmental problems result from human intervention in the ecosystem, ecological research in the social sciences is now joining research in the biological and physical sciences as a means of addressing long-range problems. Within this type of social science research, this book claims, no problem is more important than the investigation of disaster. To assess the impact of sudden cataclysms on the living conditions of families or communities,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820314846
• ISBN13: 9780820314846
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 159 Pages