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Table of Contents

A Physical Science Perspective on Disaster: Through the Prism of Global Warming

Michael Oppenheimer
pp. 659-668
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0007
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Possibilistic Thinking: A New Conceptual Tool for Thinking about Extreme Events

Lee Clarke
pp. 669-690
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0013
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Preconditions of Disaster: Premonitions of Tragedy

John C. Mutter
pp. 691-724
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0018
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Disasters Evermore?: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters

Charles Perrow
pp. 733-752
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0029
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Differential Vulnerabilities: Environmental and Economic Inequality and Government Response to Unnatural Disasters

Robert D. Bullard
pp. 753-784
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0035
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Population Vulnerabilities, Preconditions, and the Consequences of Disasters

Irwin Redlener
pp. 785-792
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0005
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The Politics of Infrastructure

Joseph W. Westphal
pp. 793-804
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0011
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Disaster Planning and Preparedness: A Human Story

Nicholas Scoppetta
pp. 807-814
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0016
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Toward a New Risk Architecture: The Question of Catastrophe Risk Calculus

Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan
pp. 819-854
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0027
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Fear, Denial, and Sensible Action in the Face of Disasters

Elliot Aronson
pp. 855-872
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0033
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Conventional Beliefs and Counterintuitive Realities

Enrico L. Quarantelli
pp. 873-904
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0003
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Reducing Losses from Catastrophic Risks through Long-Term Insurance and Mitigation

Howard Kunreuther
pp. 905-930
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0009
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Disaster Impacts: Implications and Policy Responses

Reid Basher
pp. 937-954
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0019
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Risk, Migration, and Rural Financial Markets: Evidence from Earthquakes in El Salvador

Dean Yang
pp. 955-992
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0024
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After the Storm: Rebuilding Cities upon Reflexive Infrastructure

William R. Morrish
pp. 993-1014
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0030
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Disasters and Health: Distress, Disorders, and Disaster Behaviors in Communities, Neighborhoods, and Nations

Robert J. Ursano, Carol S. Fullerton, Artin Terhakopian
pp. 1015-1028
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0000
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Endangered Scholars Worldwide

Arien Mack
pp. v-vii
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0025
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Editor’s Introduction

Arien Mack
pp. ix-x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0031
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Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk about Disasters

Jonathan Veitch
pp. 655-658
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0001
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Introduction: The Potential for Catastrophe

Ron Kassimir
pp. 727-732
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0023
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Introduction: What “Really” Happens When Disasters Happen: Preparations and Responses

Joel Towers
pp. 817-818
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0021
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Introduction: Thinking Possibilistically in a Probabilistic World

Lee Clarke
pp. 933-936
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0014
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 1033-1034
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sor.2008.0006
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