Forces of Nature and Cultural Responses - Pfeifer, Katrin; Pfeifer, Niki.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Forces of nature and cultural responses: an introduction -- Ball Lightning: an elusive force of nature -- The ball lightning controversy - Empirical case studies -- How does a series of earthquakes affect academic performance? -- Vulnerability and disaster in Thailand: Scale, power, and collaboration in post-tsunami recovery -- Disaster in paradise: a preliminary investigation of the socio-economic aftermaths of two coastal disasters in Hawaii -- Responses to natural disasters in the Greek and Roman world -- Provisioning capacity: a critical component of vulnerability and resilience under chronic volcanic eruptions -- Jamming with disaster: New Orleans jazz in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina -- Two floods compared: Response to and perception of the 1682 and 1715 flooding disasters in the Low Countries.
Keywords: Geography; Meteorology; Geography, general; Meteorology