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Chapter 14 - Sociology of Disaster

from Part IV - Specialty Areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2017

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Thomas E. Drabek
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Kathleen Odell Korgen
Kathleen Odell Korgen
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William Paterson University, New Jersey
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology
Specialty and Interdisciplinary Studies
 , pp. 139 - 147
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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