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(2008) Animal disease and human trauma, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
There is general agreement that a disaster is some event or circumstance outwith normal (i.e. situated) expectations of life and that coping with its consequences requires skills and/or resources beyond those available in the affected community. Disasters previously classified as natural are today considered, to an ever increasing degree, to be human induced (Weisæth et al., 2002), and in this book we have likewise argued for a more nuanced understanding of disaster; what Erikson calls "a new species of trouble". Disasters are political events, both in terms of government and governance.
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Convery, I. , Mort, M. , Baxter, J. , Bailey, C. (2008). Reconfiguring disasters, in Animal disease and human trauma, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 151-154.
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