Disasters fast and slow: The temporality of hazards in environmental history
Popular representations of disasters tend to focus upon dramatic moments of chaos. They envision panicked communities desperately scrambling for safety as earthquakes reduce cities to rubble or lava turns villages to ashes. Yet disasters actually unfold on numerous temporal scales. Media reports te...
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Main Authors: | WILLIAMSON, Fiona, COURTNEY, Chris |
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