TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental damage: distinguishing human from geophysical causes
AU - Brookfield, Harold
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - During the past two decades it has become increasingly common to attribute 'natural' disasters and other damaging environmental events to proximate or underlying causes that are socially produced. Through an examination of three cases, two of them historical, this paper demonstrates that underlying causes within the geophysical domain are also important. Few types of environmental damage or disaster stem from unalloyed human causes or geophysical ones; complex intermixtures are the rule. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
AB - During the past two decades it has become increasingly common to attribute 'natural' disasters and other damaging environmental events to proximate or underlying causes that are socially produced. Through an examination of three cases, two of them historical, this paper demonstrates that underlying causes within the geophysical domain are also important. Few types of environmental damage or disaster stem from unalloyed human causes or geophysical ones; complex intermixtures are the rule. (C) 1999 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd.
U2 - 10.1016/S1464-2867(99)00004-2
DO - 10.1016/S1464-2867(99)00004-2
M3 - Article
VL - 1
SP - 3
EP - 11
JO - Global Environmental Change: Part B - Environmental Hazards
JF - Global Environmental Change: Part B - Environmental Hazards
ER -