Forces of Nature and Cultural Responses /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Pfeifer, Katrin. (Editor), Pfeifer, Niki. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.