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Natural Hazards

A Cross-Cultural Perspective

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Environment and Culture

Part of the book series: Human Behavior and Environment ((HUBE,volume 4))

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A camper in the Big Thompson Canyon, Colorado, ignores the heavy rainfall, and his trailer is swept away during a flash flood. A family in coastal Bangladesh, not wanting to leave their home and possessions, are reported missing after a tropical cylone ravishes the area. A farmer in Tanzania shrugs his shoulder and watches the sky for rain to replenish his shriveled crops. Similarly, the occupants of a small wheat farm in Kansas pray that the next year will bring better weather. Small store owners in San Francisco, California, and Managua, Nicaragua, earning their livelihoods miles apart, laugh, saying that there is nothing you can do about earthquakes, for God is responsible.

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822, USA

    John H. Sorensen

  2. Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, 80309, USA

    Gilbert F. White

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  1. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

    Irwin Altman

  2. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

    Amos Rapoport

  3. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

    Joachim F. Wohlwill

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Sorensen, J.H., White, G.F. (1980). Natural Hazards. In: Altman, I., Rapoport, A., Wohlwill, J.F. (eds) Environment and Culture. Human Behavior and Environment, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0451-5_9

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