Pondering over Several Problems in Disaster Research

• 来源期刊: 中国减灾（英文版）
• 学科: 地球科学
• 关键词: natural-social science human disaster traffic accident nuclear war population expansion environment pollution
• 年，卷（期）: 2001,（2）
• 页码范围: 55-59
• 页数: 5页
• 分类号: X4
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Some related problems in disaster research are presented. The paper concludes that catastrophology is an extremely important natural-social science, that human calamities are even more destructive than natural disasters and that research on disasters such as highway traffic accidents, nuclear wars, population expansion, environment pollution and the like are of important practical meaning and far-reaching historic significance.