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Dr Steven Forrest (University of Hull) Dr Ksenia Chmutina (Loughborough University) Peter McGowran (King’s College London)
Monday 07 February 2022, 15:00-16:00
What causes disasters: Implications of language for understanding causality and impact
- 👤 Speaker: Dr Steven Forrest (University of Hull) Dr Ksenia Chmutina (Loughborough University) Peter McGowran (King’s College London)
- 📅 Date & Time: Monday 07 February 2022, 15:00 - 16:00
- 📍 Venue: Zoom
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Abstract
The session focuses on the dilemmas of language in defining and/or using the terminology of a disaster, and the implications that this may have on people’s understanding of causality and who is impacted by natural hazard events. Questions explored by the speakers will include: who defines when a disaster becomes a disaster, and does everyone impacted consider the event to be a disaster? Additionally, why is there a need to move away from the term ‘natural disasters’ and viewing disasters as one off-events?
Series This talk is part of the Cambridge Disaster Research Network series.
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