Yazar: Alice Fothergill

With chapters that incorporate additional perspectives on social vulnerability, this second edition focuses on the social construction of disasters, demonstrating how the characteristics of an event …

Heads above Water tells the stories of women and their families who survived the Grand Forks, North Dakota, flood of 1997, one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. This book describes the …

With chapters that incorporate additional perspectives on social vulnerability, this second edition focuses on the social construction of disasters, demonstrating how the characteristics of an event …

Winner, Betty and Alfred Mc Clung Lee Book Award, Association for Humanist Sociology, 2016Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the Section on Children and Youth, American Sociological Associat …