Overview: Read the assignment material for the week. This week, the reading assignment is: Forward and Chapters 1 - 9 of "What is a Disaster" by Perry & Quarantelli (eds.).
Provide an approximate 1200-word document analyzing important concepts in the readings. Ensure you apply the discussion tenets from the contributors to your work including the work of Scanlon, Alexander, Cutter, Jigyasu, Britton, and Dombrowsky. Assume that you are writing for an uninformed reader that knows nothing about the topic and has not read what you read. Provide an introduction that gives the background of the resource that you are reviewing, so the reader will understand what they're reading and why. Include the following topics in the discussion: