Since culture the media and the arts deal with the perception and the processing of
catastrophe what kind of social knowledge does this process produce and how does it contribute
to the sustainable development of societies?The book seeks to understand how societies and
cultures deal with disaster and the rhetorical means they resort to in order to represent it.
It is situated on the cusp between the response to natural catastrophe the renewed awareness
of human vulnerability in the face of environmental hazard and irresponsible policies and the
social role of traditional knowledge and humanistic ideas for the preservation of human
communities. It aims to be diverse in disciplinary allegiance and cultural situation and
relevant by bringing together articles by well-known scholars and policy makers to jointly
discuss the possibilities of reframing hazard for the future so that one may learn from
restored behavior instead of repeating the mistakes of the past.
