GEOG 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hurricane Harvey, Natural Disaster, Raymond Williams
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Raymond williams in ideas of nature writes that nature contains an extraordinary amount of human history. Discuss the relevance of this idea to common concepts of natural disasters. Using mike davis" the case for letting malibu burn and the example of. Hurricane katrina from lecture, explain the recent santa rosa fires or the hurricane in. Discuss how natural disasters are social as well as natural products. Address the limitations of conventional approaches to the study of natural disasters as a way of understanding human environment relationships. What we consider natural is just a projector of power and value. Ex) fire, it happened it is good for environment but it burns down things. We don"t care about fire in poor areas. Ex) more money went to hurricane harvey because people think huston is a bigger city, they have to fix that first. Hurricane maria only raise 2 million in total. President said that it is because infrastructure isn"t well organized.
