Reminder to everyone that we have our final First-Year Meeting tonight! The topic for the meeting will be: “Is there such a thing as a natural disaster?” Below are the two articles we will be focusing on for the meeting:
First article: http://www.ids.ac.uk/news/natural-hazards-unnatural-disasters-understanding-disasters-in-the-context-of-development – Written by Terry Cannon, Research Fellow for the Institute of Development Studies, who briefly discusses the social construction of disasters through the lens of development.
Second article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-parker/japan-tsunami_b_1335737.html – Written by Bruce Parker, former Chief Scientist of the National Ocean Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), who looks at tsunami preparedness, or lack thereof, in the aftermath of the 2011 Tohoku (Japanese) Earthquake and Tsunami.
