What is a disaster? : new answers to old questions / edited by Ronald W.Perry and E.L.Quarantelli.

Part 1: 1: An Interpretation of Disaster in Terms of Changes in Culture, Society and International Relations/David Alexander -- 2: Are We Asking The Right Questions?/Susan L. Cutter -- 3: Disasters: A "Reality" or "Construct"? Perspectives from the "East"/Rohit Jigyasu -- 4: What's a Word? Opening up the Debate/Neil R.Britton -- 5: Not Every Move Is a Step Forward: A Critique of David Alexander, Susan L. Cutter, Rohit Jigyasu and Neil Britton/Wolf R.Dombrowsky -- 6: The Meaning of Disaster: A Reply to Wolf Dombrowsky/David Alexander -- 7: Pragmatism and Relevance: A Response to Wolf R. Dombrowsky/Susan Cutter -- 8: Defining The Definition for Addressing The "Reality"/Rohit Jigyasu -- 9: Dog or Demon?/Neil R. Britton. Part II: 10: Disaster and Collective Stress/Allen H.Barton -- 11: From Crisis To Disaster: Towards An Integrative Perspective/Arjen Boin -- 12: Disaster: Mandated Definitions, Local Knowledge and Complexity/Philip Buckle -- 13: In the Eyes of the Beholder? Making Sense Of The System(s) Of Disaster(s)/Denis Smith -- 14: Disaster, Crisis, Collective Stress, and Mass Deprivation/Robert Stallings -- 15: A Response to Robert Stallings: Ideal Type Concepts and Generalized Analytic Theory/Allen H. Barton -- 16: Back to Nature? A Reply To Stallings/Arjen Boin -- 17: Response To Robert Stallings/Philip Buckle -- 18: Through a Glass Darkly: A Response to Stallings/Denis Smith. Part III: 19: Disasters, Definitions and Theory Construction/Ronald W.Perry -- 20: Of Social Science Research Agenda For The Disasters Of the 21st Century: Theoretical, Methodological And Empirical Issues And Their Professional Implementation/E.L.(Henry) Quarantelli.