A Commentary on Ilan Kelman’s Disaster by Choice

The message of Disaster by Choice is simple but essential – humans, not natural hazards, cause disasters. Crucial to this claim is the concept of vulnerability, broadly defined as “a characteristic of individuals and groups of people who inhabit a given natural, social, and economic space, within which they are differentiated according to their varying position in society into more or less vulnerable individuals and groups.”1 In other words, natural hazards reveal the vulnerabilities of a society and a people, often accumulated through a long process that predates the natural hazards. The notion is well-established in

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