Individual Resources, Social Environment, and Flood Victimization
Description:
The study is a contextual analysis of flood victimization. Victimization is defined as the social, psychological, and physiological aftermath experienced by victims of a disaster. Disaster researchers concentrate on the victims' characteristics to explain the varying degrees of their victimization, providing only ambiguous results. Theorists such as Kreps, Wildavsky, and Douglas contend that the outcomes of disasters are contingent upon social structure. This analysis treats victimization as on…
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Date:
May 1990
Creator:
Rossman, Edwin J. (Edwin John)
Partner:
UNT Libraries