Interpretations of Calamity

K. Hewitt

Foreword Preface Acknowledgements List of Tables Part I: Natural Disaster: Mischance or Misnomer? 1. The Idea of Calamity in a Techncratic Age 2. Coping with Frosts, Governments and Disaster Experts: Some Reflections Based on a New Guinea Experience and a Perusal of the Relevant Literature 3. The Bushmen and the British: Problems of the Identification of Drought and Responses to Drought 4. Drought in the US Great Plains: Shifting Social Consequences 5. The Sahelian Drought: Social Sciences and the Political Economy of Underdevelopment 6. Underdevelopment and Hazards in Historical Perspective: An Irish Case Study Part II: Hazards in Context: Problems of Agricultural Development and Food Security 7. Interpreting the Role of Hazards in Agriculture 8. The Place of Climatic Hazards in Food Scarcity: A Case Study of Belize 9. Food Production Under Conditions of Increased Uncertainty: The Settlement of the Paraguayan Chaco by Mennonite Farmers 10. Climactic Hazards and Agricultural Development: Some Aspects of the Problem in the Indo-Pakistan Sub-Continent 11. Wheat Yields and Weather Hazards in the Soviet Union 12. Climactic Hazards and Canadian Wheat Trade Part III: Alternative Frameworks 13. On the Poverty of Theory: Natural Hazards Research in Context 14. Global Disasters, A Radical Interpretation 15. A General Approach to the Identification of Hazards and Responses Author Index Subject Index