Edited book
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe
Palgrave Macmillan
2020
Abstract
Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes, exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what are the anthropogenic causes of ‘natural’ disasters? How have disasters been remembered or forgotten? And how have societies over generations responded to or understood disaster? As climate change escalates disaster risk in Australia, New Zealand and around the world, these questions have assumed greater urgency. This unique collection poses a challenge to learn from past experiences and to implement behavioural and policy change. Rich in oral history and archival research, Disasters in Australia and New Zealand offers practical and illuminating insights that will appeal to historians and disaster scholars across multiple disciplines.
Details
- Title
- Disasters in Australia and New Zealand: Historical Approaches to Understanding Catastrophe
- Authors
- Scott McKinnon (Editor) - University of WollongongMargaret Cook (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Social Sciences - Legacy
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-15-4382-1
- ISBN
- 9789811543814; 9789811543821
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Centre; School of Social Sciences - Legacy; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99484008802621
- Output Type
- Edited book
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