Reverse Flow
The Role of Built Environments in Shaping Disaster
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4767953 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip C Brown (0000-0002-5752-7730, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 170-181 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Technology and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tech.2017.0007 |
| PMID | 28569710 |
| OpenAlex | W2587840231 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
In contrast to approaches that examine the impacts of human-built efforts to ameliorate calamitous natural events, this essay argues that a wide array of large structures shape the outcomes of these events. Further, significant human artifacts can succeed in their function vis-à-vis one set of natural events, but can have unanticipated, even reverse effects when natural forces exceed planned expectations. Risk assessments do not normally consider such side effects, suffering from an agnotological narrowing of focus. The historian's emphasis on temporal contextualization and contingency has important implications for policy and assessment of risk
Business · Computer security · Contextualization · Contingency · Contingency plan · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Function (biology) · Geography · Interpretation (philosophy) · Natural (archaeology) · Natural disaster · Risk analysis (engineering) · Set (abstract data type) · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · History · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |