Organizing hazards, engineering disasters? Improving the recognition of political-economic factors in the creation of disasters

Social Forces

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1015-1038

  Freudenburg, William R ^a   Gramling, Robert ^b   Laska, Shirley ^c   Erikson, Kai T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 59649122371     PISSN: 00377732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sof.0.0126     Document Type: Article

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