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Methods of Disaster Research - Softcover

Stallings, Robert A.

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9781401079703: Methods of Disaster Research
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1401079709 ISBN 13: 9781401079703
Publisher: Xlibris, 2003

Synopsis

The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these methods must be applied under unique circumstances. Researchers new to this field need to understand how the disaster context affects the ap

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About the Author

Robert A. Stallings (Ph.D., Sociology, The Ohio State University, 1971) is Professor of Public Policy and Sociology at the University of Southern California. From 1967 to 1971 he was a research assistant at the Disaster Research Center. He served as editor of the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters (1997-2002) and is president of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Disasters (RC 39). He is the author of Promoting Risk: Constructing the Earthquake Threat (Aldine de Gruyter, 1995). His most recent article, "Weberian Political Sociology and Sociological Disaster Studies," appears in the June 2002 issue of Sociological Forum.

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Publisher
Xlibris
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1401079709
ISBN 13 
9781401079703
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
524
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