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Lessons learned ? : disasters, rapid change and globalization / Wolf R. Dombrowsky

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Title:
Lessons learned ? : disasters, rapid change and globalization
Author zone:
Wolf R. Dombrowsky
Host item entries:
  • International review of the Red Cross, Vol. 89, no. 866, June 2007, p. 271-277
Languages:
English
Abstract:
Comparing the two tsunamis of Lisbon in 1775 and of Asia in 2004, the article analyses the different paradigmatic interpretations of ""Western'' religious and secular causality. Based on the rational concept of risk making and risk taking, the need to accept failures and their consequences is discussed, as well as the responsibility to develop human strategies for disaster prevention and to foster living conditions which may avoid large-scale suffering.
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Authors:
Dombrowsky, Wolf R.
Keyword in English:
NATURAL DISASTER
GLOBALIZATION
PREVENTION
Keyword in French:
CATASTROPHE NATURELLE
MONDIALISATION
PREVENTION
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