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Notre dernier siècle?
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ISBN: 2709623102 9782709623100 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris: Lattès,

Morphogenesis of meaning.
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ISSN: 14235587 ISBN: 3039101048 0820468584 9780820468587 9783039101047 Year: 2004 Volume: 3 3 Publisher: Bern Lang

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La mort collective : pour une sociologie des catastrophes
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ISBN: 2271062616 2271077982 9782271062611 Year: 2004 Publisher: CNRS Éditions

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What death has that is monumental, unexpected and collective, such is the subject of this work. He approaches collective deaths through a sociological perspective, the central question being: does not the death of a collective of men, in addition to the usual treatments, give rise to specific reactions and practices linked to the collective character of these deaths? From this point of view, this death would be collective because it generates an original treatment different from “ordinary” deaths. This research builds on a body of twenty major accidents have occurred on French territory 20th century. The oldest is that of the fire of the Bazar de la Charité in 1897, the deadliest those of the Courrières mines in 1906 and the rupture of the Malpasset dam in 1959, the most recent that of the fire of the Mont tunnel. -Blanc in 1999.Social dangers, emotional reactions, mourning rituals and the construction of a collective memory are studied. Today collective deaths can no longer be explained by divine vengeance or a furious Nature, it is human responsibility that is in question. This raises the almost insoluble problem of collective human responsibility, which is very complex in terms of law. From this stems the idea of ​​an impossible passage, hence also the need for an over-ritualization and recurring forgetting.


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Risques naturels et aménagement en Europe : [actes du Colloque à la Grande Arche de La Défense, 22-24 octobre 2002]
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ISBN: 2200267827 9782200267827 Year: 2004 Publisher: Paris : Armand Colin,


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Raadgever bij trauma's . Eerste hulp bij ernstige psychische belasting
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ISBN: 9020243772 Year: 2004 Publisher: Deventer Uitgeverij Ankh-Hermes bv

War, humanitarian crises, population displacement, and fertility : a review of evidence
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ISBN: 0309092418 9786610176021 1280176024 0309532841 9780309532846 9780309092418 6610176027 0309165997 Year: 2004 Publisher: Washington DC : National Academies Press,

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Includes statistical data.


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De la culture du risque : paroles riveraines à propos de deux cours d'eau périurbains
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ISBN: 2876788942 Year: 2004 Publisher: La Tour d'Aigues : Aube,

Mapping vulnerability : disasters, development, and people
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ISBN: 9781853839641 9781853839634 1853839647 1853839639 9786610475926 1417542624 1280475927 1136561625 1849771928 1136561617 9781849771924 9781136561627 9781280475924 9781417542628 9781136561573 1136561579 9781136561610 661047592X Year: 2004 Publisher: London : Earthscan,

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Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture, and infrastructure. So what can be done? The key to understanding the causes of disasters and mitigating their impacts is the concept of 'vulnerability'. Mapping Vulnerability analyses 'vulnerability' as a concept central to the way we understand disasters and their magnitude and impact. Written and edited by a distinguished group of disaster scholars and practitioners, this book is a counterbalance to those technocratic approaches that limit themselves to simply looking at disasters as natural phenomena. Through the notion of vulnerability, the authors stress the importance of social processes and human-environmental interactions as causal agents in the making of disasters. They critically examine what renders communities unsafe - a condition, they argue, that depends primarily on the relative position of advantage or disadvantage that a particular group occupies within a society's social order. The book also looks at vulnerability in terms of its relationship to development and its impact on policy and people's lives, through consideration of selected case studies drawn from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Mapping Vulnerability is essential reading for academics, students, policymakers and practitioners in disaster studies, geography, development studies, economics, environmental studies and sociology.

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