ricerca
avanzata
  • Help & Faq
  • Accedi/Login

Catastophe - 9781558497382

Un libro in lingua di Sarat Austin (EDT) Lezaun Javier (EDT) edito da Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 2009

  • € 29.20
  • Il prezzo è variabile in funzione del cambio della valuta d’origine

Catastrophe, say the editors, tests the ability of political and legal systems to reduce human suffering. The essays in this book present a number of theoretical and methodological approaches for studying the relationships between politics, law, and catastrophe (whether natural, such as a hurricane, or human-created, such as war). After an intitial chapter defining the meaning of catastrophe in terms of law, politics, religion, and science, contributors examine how social systems can make a disaster worse; the effects that catastrophes have on legal institutions themselves; the dissemination of information about environmental risks; and the reverberation of catastrophes through societies long after the initial shock has passed. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Informazioni bibliografiche