The secret history of natural disaster
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12962970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ted Steinberg (0000-0002-9270-4130, Case Western Reserve University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-35 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Hazards (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1878-0059 • E-ISSN: 1747-7891 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3763/ehaz.2001.0304 |
| OpenAlex | W4205499573 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 6 |
This paper explores the failure of historians to properly engage the study of natural hazards. It argues that by focusing mainly on individual calamities, historians have overlooked the larger social and economic forces that have shaped the response to natural disaster over the last century. Two important trends, real estate capitalism and the entry of the state into the political economy of hazards after World War II, are singled out as crucial for understanding US society's response to natural disaster. As a result of these historical forces, risk became a commodity, with harmful environmental consequences
Archaeology · Computer security · Geography · Natural (archaeology · Natural disaster · Natural history · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · History · Medicine
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2015 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |