Cambio y continuidad en la geografía de los riesgos naturales: la aportacion de la geografía radical

The main paradigm of natural hazard research, based on individual perception and adjustment to hazard, has been criticized for the little relevance given to the economic, social, and political contexts in which hazards occur. This article introduces the most significant criticisms to the main research paradigm coming from radical geography. Focusing on the Third World, these criticisms have produced an alternative approach that stresses the social relations of production, geographically and historically defined, as the central element in the study of the relationships between humans and hazards and, at a more general level, between humans and their natural environment. -from English summary