Kelman, I;
(2024)
Choosing or avoiding disaster.
Geography
, 109
(1)
pp. 36-39.
10.1080/00167487.2024.2307222.
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Abstract
This article explores why the term ‘natural disaster’ is a misnomer. Based on long-standing research, it argues that disasters do not occur due to environmental hazards such as earthquakes and floods. Instead, disasters happen when human attitudes, values and behaviours force people into, or lead people to choose to be in, harm’s way, making them vulnerable. Choices creating and perpetuating vulnerabilities are the disaster and these choices are not from nature but are societal processes.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Choosing or avoiding disaster |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00167487.2024.2307222 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00167487.2024.2307222 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Geography, disaster risk reduction, mitigation, prevention, resilience, vulnerability |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189616 |
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