Introduction: Can societies learn from calamities?

Learning and Calamities: Practices, Interpretations, Patterns

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1-23

  Egner, Heike ^a   Schorch, Marén ^b   Voss, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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EID: 84966737226     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203794678     Document Type: Editorial

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