Journal article
Learning from Disaster? The History of Technology and the Future of Disaster Research
Technology and culture, v 55(4), pp 773-784
01 Oct 2014
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Abstract
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction estimates that globally from 2000 to 2012 disasters killed 1.2 million people, affected 2.9 billion others, and claimed $1.7 trillion dollars in material damage. Historians of technology and science have powerful tools to apply toward the work of reducing disaster losses globally in the twenty-first century. Disaster research is in fact a wildly interdisciplinary intellectual ground, comprised of the humanities and social sciences, and converging frequently with more practice-focused communities in city planning, emergency management, public health, public policy, engineering, and the natural and physical sciences. Here, Knowles discusses the history of technology and the future of disaster research.
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- Title
- Learning from Disaster? The History of Technology and the Future of Disaster Research
- Creators
- Scott Knowles
- Publication Details
- Technology and culture, v 55(4), pp 773-784
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- History
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000344834900001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84919353006
- Other Identifier
- 991019167937704721
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