
Hazardous Future
Disaster, Representation and the Assessment of Risk
De Gruyter (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 26. June 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 298 pages
978-3-11-055307-9 (ISBN)
Description
Since culture, the media and the arts deal with the perception and the processing of catastrophe, what kind of social knowledge does this process produce and how does it contribute to the sustainable development of societies?The book seeks to understand how societies and cultures deal with disaster and the rhetorical means they resort to in order to represent it. It is situated on the cusp between the response to natural catastrophe, the renewed awareness of human vulnerability in the face of environmental hazard and irresponsible policies and the social role of traditional knowledge and humanistic ideas for the preservation of human communities. It aims to be diverse, in disciplinary allegiance and cultural situation, and relevant, by bringing together articles by well-known scholars and policy makers to jointly discuss the possibilities of reframing hazard for the future, so that one may learn from restored behavior instead of repeating the mistakes of the past.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin/Boston
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
46 Abbildungen
46 b/w ill.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-11-055307-9 (9783110553079)
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions

Isabel Capeloa Gil | Christoph Wulf
Hazardous Future
Disaster, Representation and the Assessment of Risk
E-Book
03/2015
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€134.95
Available for download

Isabel Capeloa Gil | Christoph Wulf
Hazardous Future
Disaster, Representation and the Assessment of Risk
E-Book
03/2015
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€134.95
Available for download

Isabel Capeloa Gil | Christoph Wulf
Hazardous Future
Disaster, Representation and the Assessment of Risk
Book
03/2015
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€134.95
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Persons
Isabel Capeloa Gil, UCP - CECC, Lisbon, Portugal; Christoph Wulf, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.