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- Title
Ciclos y sistemas versus procesos: Aportes para una discusión con el enfoque funcionalista sobre el riesgo.
- Authors
Altez, Rogelio
- Abstract
The discourse on disasters, risk and vulnerabilities, used in academic fields and the applied sciences realm, has been consolidated over the last two decades as the result of multiple efforts by different disciplines that reflect on the relationship between society and nature. The functionalist discourse has been the common epistemological matrix of this scientific platform, and its perspective covers and shares a good deal of the logic used in all scientific areas. This paper reviews the presence (not always acknowledged) of functionalism in the most representative arguments within the discourse about risk, in an attempt to generate a discussion on the epistemological and interpretative background of the academic thought that constructs and applies this discourse.
- Subjects
RISK; DISASTERS &; society; SOCIOLOGY of risk; FUNCTIONALISM (Social sciences); RISK assessment; HUMAN ecology; EDUCATION
- Publication
Desacatos, 2009, Issue 30, p111
- ISSN
1607-050X
- Publication type
Article