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Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe

Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe

McKinnon, Scott
Cook, Margaret

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General SociologyGeographyHistoriography

ISBN10: 9811543844
ISBN13: 9789811543845
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jul 8 2021
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes, exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what are the anthropogenic causes of 'natural' disasters? How have disasters been remembered or forgotten? And how have societies over generations responded to or understood disaster? As climate change escalates disaster risk in Australia, New Zealand and around the world, these questions have assumed greater urgency. This unique collection poses a challenge to learn from past experiences and to implement behavioural and policy change. Rich in oral history and archival research, Disasters in Australia and New Zealand offers practical and illuminating insights that will appeal to historians and disaster scholars across multiple disciplines.

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