The Social Impact of Disasters

Author(s): Christine Eriksen, David Bresch
Journal Title: ETH Globe Magazine
Publisher(s): ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2022

This ETH Globe Magazine article presents CSS' Christine Eriksen's and physicist David Bresch's research. Both focus on societal aspects of weather and climate risks and while their methods may be different, they agree that the scale of a disaster is often determined more by societal decisions than by the natural hazard itself.

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