Disaster, Natural 4
Disaster, Natural 4 : "In a seeming inversion of what was 'obvious' about natural disasters, a view has been developed by such geographers as Hewitt that seeks explanations of disaster primarily in the sociocultural and economic features of the societies that are variously affected by natural forces. Their focus has been to develop an understanding of the social structures and material practices that made people more or less vulnerable to environmental hazards. In this approach, the underlying causes of disaster are to be found not in nature, but in the organization of human societies (Varley 1994)" (Bolin with Stanford 1998, 5)
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