Lessons learned? Disasters, rapid change and globalization
International Review of the Red Cross, Volume 89, Number 866, June 2007
This article discusses the responsibility to develop human strategies for disaster prevention and to foster living conditions which may avoid large-scale suffering based on the rational concept of risk making and risk taking. It compares the two tsunamis of Lisbon in 1775 and of Asia in 2004 and analyses the different paradigmatic interpretations of ‘‘Western’’ religious and secular causality.