Living Conditions, Disasters and Development: An Approach to Cross-Cultural Comparisons (Human Systems and the Environment Ser.)

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Because most environmental problems result from human intervention in the ecosystem, ecological research in the social sciences is now joining research in the biological and physical sciences as a means of addressing long-range problems. Within this sort of social science research, no problem is more important than the investigation of disasters. To assess the have an effect on of sudden cataclysms on the living conditions of families or communities, scientists need a set of pretested, standardized measures that can be used cross-culturally. Once a disaster strikes, investigators are continuously faced with insufficient tools for assessing its have an effect on and evaluating whether aid programs have enabled households to get well or support their conditions.

In this book, the authors introduce and describe a measure―the Domestic Assets Scale―-that they’ve developed to deal with these research problems. They first present theoretical arguments that relate living conditions to the concepts of disaster and development; they then show how the measure was constructed with the usage of data collected in sample communities in Italy, Mexico, Peru, Turkey, the United States, and Yugoslavia. All the way through their discussions, they emphasize the practical application of their theoretical arguments and address the research problems and constraints faced by investigators the use of this procedure. In any case, they assess the validity and reliability of the Domestic Assets Scale and show how it can be used to measure long-term change, especially in the wake of catastrophic events.

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