REMEMBER THAT ACTS OF GOD WAS PUBLISHED IN 2000 AND OUR PAPERBACK VERSION IN 2006.
“[N]atural disasters do not always just happen; they are often produced through a chain of human and natural occurrences” (151).
It is still common to define “natural disasters as unforeseen acts of nature—as opposed to complex interactions between the natural world and social and economic forces” (176).
“a social system in which human economic forces were capable of destruction as bad as, if not worse than, a category 5 storm” (178).
“It is somewhat unfortunate that we make progress in this country in the blood of victims.” Director of NWR (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Radio) (151)
“[T]he economics of natural disaster relief have tended to overlook those most in need . . .” (179)
“the naïve faith . . . in the far-reaching, almost magical ability of technology to obviate the need for direct human contact and observation of the natural world” (169).
Disaster Relief Act of 1950, 1970, 1974 covers:
Flood
Fire
Hurricane
Earthquake
Drought
Storm
High water
Wide-driven water
Tidal wave
Tsunami
Volcanic eruption
Landslide
Mudslide
Snowslide
Explosion
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