Publication Type
Book Review
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2024
Abstract
Disaster history is an emerging field that offers tantalizing possibilities for disaster studies broadly conceived. Like many subdisciplines of history, such as environmental history, the focus on disaster as a subject of historical inquiry grew out of contemporary real-world concerns, specifically the rise of interest from sociologists, geographers, and developmental studies experts in understanding the relationship of natural hazards with socioeconomic development and rebuilding out of disaster in the Cold War. Enter the age of the Anthropocene—many of these concerns have coalesced around the possibility of new and more frequent climate change–induced hazards. Under such conditions, the authors of this new book argue, disaster research has burgeoned since the 1960s with significant investment on national and local scales by governments, academic institutions, and nongovernmental organizations.
Discipline
History
Research Areas
Integrative Research Areas
Publication
Journal of Disaster Studies
Volume
1
Issue
1
First Page
140
Last Page
142
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Citation
WILLIAMSON, Fiona.
Disasters and history: The vulnerability and resilience of past societies by Bas van Bavel, et al. (2024). Journal of Disaster Studies. 1, (1), 140-142.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/222
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
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Additional URL
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/936400