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Environment and Behavior, Vol. 15, No. 3, 333-354 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/0013916583153004
© 1983 SAGE Publications

Natural Disaster and Technological Catastrophe

Andrew Baum

University of the Health Sciences

Raymond Fleming

Laura M. Davidson

Against the backdrop of ever-expanding technological systems, the effects of accidents or breakdowns in human-made technology are examined and contrasted with those of natural disasters. A number of differences are identified, and research on these forms of cataclysmic events is reviewed. These data, as well as this analysis, suggest that technological catastrophes are more likely to have long-term effects, to affect people beyond the point of impact, and to pose different types of threat than are natural disasters.


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