Abstract
‘In Hertford, Hereford and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen’. But typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones, blizzards, droughts, floods and earthquakes occur relatively frequently in other parts of the world, particularly the third world, where loss of life and damage to property can be on an enormous scale.
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Wijkman, A. and Timberlake, L. (1984) Natural Disasters: acts of God or acts of man? ( London: Earthscan).
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© 1991 David Barrat, Chris Brown, Tony Cole, Peter de la Cour, David Cutler and Karim Murji, Roger Gomm, Patrick McNeill
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McNeill, P. (1991). Creating Disasters. In: Society Today 2. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12065-9_2
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