The Causes and Behavioral Consequences of Disasters Models informed by the global experience 1950-2005
The World Trade Center attacks. A typhoid outbreak in Eastern Europe. Hurricane Katrina. While each is a unique disaster, devastating events such as these are united both by their causes, and by the wide-ranging, and long-lasting health consequences that characterize their aftermath. Many of these...
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New York, NY
Springer New York
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Understanding Disasters and Their Consequences
- Understanding Disasters: The Missing Role of Context
- Broadening Our Conception of Disasters and Their Consequences
- Part II: Why Do Disasters Happen?
- Vulnerabilities and Capacities that Shape the Consequences of Disasters
- A Conceptual Model: Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Disasters
- A Continuum of Vulnerabilities and Capabilities
- Case Study: Venezuela Floods
- Intermittent Stressors
- Case Study: New York City Subway Fire
- Intermittent Protectors
- Case Study: Peru Earthquake
- Part III: What Happens After Disasters?
- What Do We Know About Population Behavior?
- A Conceptual Model: Understanding Population Behavior After Disasters
- Stage One: Group Preservation
- Case Study: Cyclone Rona
- Stage Two: Population Preservation/ Altruism
- Case Study: Typhoid Outbreak Tajikistan
- Stage Three: Internalizing
- Case Study: Columbine High School Shootings
- Stage Four: Externalizing
- Case Study: The Oklahoma City Bombing
- Stage Five: Renormalization
- Case Study: South Africa Traffic Accidents
- The Big Picture: The World Trade Center Terrorist Attacks
- Part IV: Conclusions
- Modifying Our Models
- Conclusions and Implications for Public Health