Understanding Preparedness for Natural Hazards: Cross cultural comparison
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cross-cultural understanding.
. cross-cultural understanding dates back to the discovery of the third world, its peoples, and its religions. along this, the place of studying other peoples came in view. demography and orientalism were two disciplines which first aimed at studying other peoples regardless of their beliefs. after some thirty years, emphasis was laid on their beliefs, too. today after disproof of the anticipat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Integrated Disaster Risk Management
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2185-8322
DOI: 10.5595/idrim.2013.0051