In the middle of the 20th century Social Sciences became interested in the study of risks and disasters which had been dominated by the Earth Sciences and engineering. The objective of this text is to present an overview of the theoretical and methodological proposals that have contributed to the understanding of the processes of risk-disaster from social sciences. The text is divided into two parts: the first part presents four ways of conceiving these processes, risk as a result of the interaction of society-nature, risk in relation to the vulnerability of society, risk as a characteristic of modernity and risk from its symbolic dimension. The second part addresses some methodologies used to study risks and disasters and to understand its...
The aim of this article is to reflect on the need to create emerging knowledge construction processe...
Los riesgos son un constructo social en la medida que es el hombre el que se instala o construye e...
Finding a holistic and integrative – yet applied and manageable – framework for both understanding a...
In attempting to explain the reasons why socio-natural disasters bring with them a chain of disastro...
This work is intended as a short introduction to social science literature, with the aim of critical...
Since the 1990s there has been a significant change in the perception of and approach to the problem...
The article deals with the theory of hazards and disasters. Over the past years, these two theoretic...
This book aims to frame the study of the different types of risk involving the intervention of civil...
Just as science has advanced by leaps and bounds since the second half of the twentieth century, tod...
The conceptual review shows how the concept of risk has acquired complexityin its approach and const...
Threats to human existence can be found in the past. But the risk society we live in is distinguishe...
The conceptual review shows how the concept of risk has acquired complexity in its approach and cons...
The risks issue has earned worth within Social Sciences because the undesirable effects which they h...
The Historical Study of Disasters has shown that the origin of earthquakes, epidemics, floods, among...
The investigation by geographers about risks, goes back to the �classics� of Greece, who thought tha...
The aim of this article is to reflect on the need to create emerging knowledge construction processe...
Los riesgos son un constructo social en la medida que es el hombre el que se instala o construye e...
Finding a holistic and integrative – yet applied and manageable – framework for both understanding a...
In attempting to explain the reasons why socio-natural disasters bring with them a chain of disastro...
This work is intended as a short introduction to social science literature, with the aim of critical...
Since the 1990s there has been a significant change in the perception of and approach to the problem...
The article deals with the theory of hazards and disasters. Over the past years, these two theoretic...
This book aims to frame the study of the different types of risk involving the intervention of civil...
Just as science has advanced by leaps and bounds since the second half of the twentieth century, tod...
The conceptual review shows how the concept of risk has acquired complexityin its approach and const...
Threats to human existence can be found in the past. But the risk society we live in is distinguishe...
The conceptual review shows how the concept of risk has acquired complexity in its approach and cons...
The risks issue has earned worth within Social Sciences because the undesirable effects which they h...
The Historical Study of Disasters has shown that the origin of earthquakes, epidemics, floods, among...
The investigation by geographers about risks, goes back to the �classics� of Greece, who thought tha...
The aim of this article is to reflect on the need to create emerging knowledge construction processe...
Los riesgos son un constructo social en la medida que es el hombre el que se instala o construye e...
Finding a holistic and integrative – yet applied and manageable – framework for both understanding a...