EAN: 9783319208459

CATASTROPHES - ANDREAS HOPPE GEBUNDEN

Scientific disciplines have their own view on catastrophes. Here  natural scientists  engineers
physicians as well as historians and social scientists define and discuss geo-hazards and
associated technical disasters  natural disasters as a business case  medicine and its
catastrophes. After war aspects of the Shoah are described with Gershom Sholem¿s Concept of
Jewish Totality  and the situation of Displaced Persons in Germany as well as the Nakba for
Palestinians related to the happiness of Jews celebrating their new State of Israel. The book
also reminds of Hamburg's Flood Disaster in 1962  the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and
other historical catastrophes in Japan  the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 and the Age of
Enlightenment  and the eruption of the Tambora in 1815 followed by the year without summer.

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