Abstract
ABSTRACT This article explores why the term ‘natural disaster’ is a misnomer. Based on long-standing research, it argues that disasters do not occur due to environmental hazards such as earthquakes and floods. Instead, disasters happen when human attitudes, values and behaviours force people into, or lead people to choose to be in, harm’s way, making them vulnerable. Choices creating and perpetuating vulnerabilities are the disaster and these choices are not from nature but are societal processes.
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