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Planning for Disaster
Author(s) -
Banerjee Mohini P.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1002/hast.460
Subject(s) - wonder , humanity , toll , natural disaster , context (archaeology) , environmental ethics , natural (archaeology) , set (abstract data type) , sociology , political science , social psychology , psychology , law , geography , medicine , computer science , philosophy , archaeology , meteorology , immunology , programming language
Some of my friends and relatives wonder why I want to spend my time thinking about social inequities in the context of natural disasters. I have tried to explain the importance of understanding how humanity's responses mitigate or worsen the human toll of “acts of God.” Disaster ethics presents a unique set of challenges .
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