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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…

“self-inflicted catastrophe” (82) “’[M]an-made’ changes, not natural ones, are responsible for the increased destruction” of recent hurricanes” (118) “federalization of risk” (81) “the transformation of natural disaster from a localized problem into a national one” (81) “the U.S. government’s efforts to underwrite life on the edge of obliteration” (81) “[W]hat the flood should have taught…

“My argument is not simply that natural disasters bear a strong human component, but that those in power (politicians; federal, state, and city policymakers; and corporate leaders) have tended to view these events as purely natural in an effort to justify a set of responses that has proved both environmentally unsound, and socially, if not…

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INTRO: People struggle to make “actual risks of the world around them manageable” (5) How “to make sense of disasters in the terms available and comfortable” to people? (5) Think of disasters in terms of: “impact . . . on local cultures” “disruption and transformation of familiar patterns” “responses of professional communities and organizational cultures”…