Vulnerability and the social-production of disaster: hurricane Mitch in Posoltega, Nicaragua.
Two very widespread views of natural disasters see them as vengeful acts of a God responding to humans' evil deeds or as caused by random natural forces lying entirely beyond human influence. In turn, these views have led to shortsighted patterns of development as they negate that disaster is s...
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