Environmental damage: Distinguishing human from geophysical causes

Harold Brookfield

doi:10.1016/S1464-2867(99)00004-2

Environmental damage: Distinguishing human from geophysical causes

Harold Brookfield^*

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3-11
Number of pages	9
Journal	Environmental Hazards
Volume	1
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S1464-2867(99)00004-2
Publication status	Published - Jun 1999

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