Social Problems Perspectives, Disaster Research and

For example, Clarke (2006) urges us to go beyond the confines of disaster events as “abnormal” (e.g., see p. 129). Like Perrow did previously (1984), he suggests that disaster is “normal”, at least in the sense that it should not be viewed “. . . as separate from the ebb and flow of normal life.” (Clarke 2006, p. 128). ................
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