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Letukas, Lynn; Barnshaw, John – Social Forces, 2008
As our understanding of disaster shifts from an event concentrated in time and space to a social occasion occurring across time and space, so too must our explanations of disaster shift from theories of the middle range to broader theoretical frameworks. We explore the world-system approach in an effort to understand the upper limits of theory for…
Descriptors: Social Change, Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Crisis Management