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The Demography of Disasters Impacts for Population and Place
The Demography of Disasters
Dávid Karácsonyi Andrew Taylor Deanne Bird •
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The Demography of Disasters Impacts for Population and Place
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Editors Dávid Karácsonyi Geographical Institute, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary
Andrew Taylor Northern Institute Charles Darwin University Darwin, NT, Australia
Deanne Bird Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Askja University of Iceland Reykjavik, Iceland
ISBN 978-3-030-49919-8 ISBN 978-3-030-49920-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49920-4
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Foreword
It is my honor to introduce the present book titled The Demography of Disasters, Impacts for Population and Place to the reader. While the title suggests a social science inquiry on disasters from the angle of demography, the subtitle of the book clearly reflects that the geographer’s perspective is inevitable when analyzing disasters. Geography plays an important role in understanding complex interactions of human–earth systems. Geography also bears the potential to help and coordinate policy-making, addressing the challenges of growing entropy in our techno
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