Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti: Disaster Industrial Complex

by Loretta Pyles and Juliana Svistova

Book Overview

Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of disasters has become more sophisticated, the part that people and systems play in disaster events has become more apparent. Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti demonstrates how social processes impact disasters as they unfold, through the distribution of power and resources, the use of discourses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367820951
• ISBN13: 9780367820954
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"