What Is A Disaster?: New Answers to Old Questions
by Ronald W. Perry, E L. Quarantelli
What Is a Disaster? revisits old questions through the promise of new answers. Written by Ronald W. Perry and E. L. Quarantelli, this work examines how disasters are understood and studied, offering readers a focused introduction to key issues in disaster scholarship and social science inquiry.
About This Book
What Is a Disaster? explores fundamental questions surrounding the meaning and study of disasters.
The book’s title emphasizes a fresh examination of questions that have shaped disaster scholarship over time.
Ronald W. Perry and E. L. Quarantelli present a work focused on concepts, inquiry, and interpretation within disaster studies.
It is suited to readers interested in social science approaches to disasters and the questions used to understand them.
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