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Catastrophes: Views from Natural and Human Sciences

✍ Scribed by Andreas Hoppe (eds.)

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Leaves
160
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Scientific disciplines have their own view on catastrophes. Here, natural scientists, engineers, physicians as well as historians and social scientists define and discuss geo-hazards and associated technical disasters, natural disasters as a business case, medicine and its catastrophes. After war aspects of the Shoah are described with Gershom Sholem´s Concept of Jewish Totality, and the situation of Displaced Persons in Germany as well as the Nakba for Palestinians related to the happiness of Jews celebrating their new State of Israel. The book also reminds of Hamburg’s Flood Disaster in 1962, the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and other historical catastrophes in Japan, the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 and the Age of Enlightenment, and the eruption of the Tambora in 1815 followed by the “year without summer”.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Twist to Evil—An Introduction to Different Views on Catastrophes....Pages 1-14
The Great East Japan Earthquake in the Context of Historical Catastrophes in Japan....Pages 15-49
No “German-Jewish Dialogue”? On Gershom Scholem’s Concept of Jewish Totality as the Cornerstone for Cultural Resilience....Pages 51-62
Jewish Life in Camps after 1945. Displaced Persons Camps in the US Zone of Germany....Pages 63-80
The Nakba—Flight and Expulsion of the Palestinians in 1948....Pages 81-104
From Dinosaurs and Humans—Geology and Catastrophes....Pages 105-122
Dangerous Water in the Land of the Economic Miracle—Hamburg’s Flood Disaster in February 1962....Pages 123-134
Medicine—and its Catastrophes....Pages 135-143
Natural Disasters as a Business Case—Risks and Opportunities from the Insurance Viewpoint....Pages 145-155

✦ Subjects

History of Science; Historical Geology; International Relations; Medicine/Public Health, general; Environmental Economics

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