caa a22 4500 388023244 CHVBK 20180307124930.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0036930600056866 doi S0036930600056866 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0036930600056866 Chester D. K. Department of Geography University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 3BX England The Theodicy of Natural Disasters [Elektronische Daten] [D. K. Chester] In 1993 Frank Press, President of the United States Academy of Sciences estimated that in a typical year ie. one without a major catastrophe on the scale of the Kobe earthquake or Sahel droughts, some 250,000 people will die and losses of US$40 billion will result from natural disasters (Press 1993). In recent years much has been written about the physical causes of and human responses to natural disasters (see: Hewitt, 1983a, 1983b; Alexander, 1993; Chester 1993; Blaikie et al. 1994 and Chester et al. 1996, for extensive bibliographies), and this vast literature reflects increasing concern over disaster losses and a growing realization that most losses are preventable. Prompted by this concern the United Nations has designated the nineteen-nineties the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, or IDNDR. With the exception of a training manual for foreign mission workers published by the Evangelical Interchurch Relief and Development Alliance (Davis and Wall 1992), trenchant reflections by Austin Farrer (1966) and limited treatment in works focusing on wider ecotheological issues (eg. Russell 1994: 35-50), theologians have been conspicuous by their absence from what is now a global debate on natural disasters and their mitigation. Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1998 Scottish Journal of Theology Cambridge University Press 51/4(1998-01), 485-506 0036-9306 51:4<485 1998 51 SJT https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600056866 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0036930600056866 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Chester D. K. Department of Geography University of Liverpool Liverpool L69 3BX England NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Scottish Journal of Theology Cambridge University Press 51/4(1998-01), 485-506 0036-9306 51:4<485 1998 51 SJT CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge