Safe place or 'catastrophic society'? Perspectives on hazards and disasters in Canada

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 325-341

  Hewitt, K ^a  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian risk geography; Disasters; Hazards

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HAZARD; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RISK PERCEPTION;

CANADA;

EID: 0034439048     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2000.tb00716.x     Document Type: Article

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5. Federal radioactive waste management
6. Federal contaminated sites - Management information on environmental costs and liabilities
7. Control of the transboundary movement of hazardous waste
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9. Politics of risk society
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11. Indian mortality
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13. The geography of human survival
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16. An assessment of the regional impacts and opportunities from climate change in Canada
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21. Emergency preparedness and the year 2000 problem
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23. Climate change and extreme events: Canada
24. Dubious bragging rights
25. Back injuries-The hidden epidemic
26. Canada's safety hot line
27. No haven in Davis inlet
28. Behind closed doors: The struggle over home care
29. Introduction
30. The idea of calamity in a technocratic age
31. Excluded perspectives in the social construction of disaster
32. Mass producing traditions: Europe 1870-1914
33. Modern disasters as outrange and betrayal
34. Regional perspectives on 20th century environmental change
35. Metropolitan dominance in Canada
36. A general approach to the identification of hazards and responses
37. An assessment of coping with environmental hazards in a Northern aboriginal community
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41. The Inuit
42. Firel
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