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Rajan, S. Ravi.

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Risk, disaster, and vulnerability : = an essay on humanity and environmental catastrophe /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Risk, disaster, and vulnerability :/ S. Ravi Rajan.
Reminder of title:	an essay on humanity and environmental catastrophe /
Author:	Rajan, S. Ravi.
Published:	Oakland, Calif. :University of California Press, : c2023.,
Description:	xv, 155 p. :ill. ;21 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Setting the stage -- Risk -- Disaster -- Vulnerability -- Looking ahead -- Bibliographical essays.
Subject:	Environmental disasters - Social aspects. -
ISBN:	9780520392625

Risk, disaster, and vulnerability : = an essay on humanity and environmental catastrophe /
Rajan, S. Ravi.

Risk, disaster, and vulnerability :an essay on humanity and environmental catastrophe /S. Ravi Rajan. - Oakland, Calif. :University of California Press,c2023. - xv, 155 p. :ill. ;21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Setting the stage -- Risk -- Disaster -- Vulnerability -- Looking ahead -- Bibliographical essays.

"Over the course of the past century, there has been a sustained reflective engagement about environmental risks, disasters, and human vulnerability in the technocene (a term used by some humanist scholars to characterize the era in which we live, characterized by complex technologies with accompanying hazards that can potentially harm human societies and their living environments on historically unprecedented scales). This inquiry has raised a host of crucial questions. Just how safe in humanity is in a world of toxic chemicals and industrial installations that have destructive potential? What are the discordant consequences of the transformations of the natural world by twentieth century technologies? To what extent is it feasible to contain chemical, nuclear, and other pollutants? Is it at all possible to prevent runaway disasters in highly complex industrial technoscapes? In what way do environmental hazards impact social and political orders? The purpose of this essay is to help scholars and indeed ordinary citizens not versed in the extent literature in scientific, public policy and humanistic genres, understand their social theoretic import"--

ISBN: 9780520392625

LCCN: 2022059323Subjects--Topical Terms:

3603680
Environmental disasters
--Social aspects.

LC Class. No.: GE146 / .R35 2023

Dewey Class. No.: 363.7

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