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William I. Torry

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Publications

12

Citations

551

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Active since

1976

Affiliations

University of California, Berkeley(Current)

West Virginia University

William I. Torry is an author at University of California, Berkeley specializing in disaster risk reduction, education, and anthropology.

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EducationDisaster Risk ReductionGeographyAnthropologyDisaster ManagementSocial AnthropologyEngineeringPublic PolicySocial SciencesNatural Disasters

Publications per year

1976–1999

12

Publications

12

Anthropological Studies in Hazardous Environments: Past Trends and New Horizons [and Comments and Reply]

William I. Torry, William A. Anderson, Donald Bain et al. · Current Anthropology · 1979 · 151 citations

Natural Disasters, Human Ecology, Education +21

Hazards, Hazes and Holes: a Critique of the <i>Environment as Hazard</i>* and General Reflections on Disaster Research

William I. Torry · Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes · 1979 · 78 citations

Disaster Management, Natural Hazards, Geography +7

Suffering Grass: Subsistence and Society of Waso Borana.

William I. Torry, Gudrun Dahl · Man · 1980 · 64 citations

Historical Geography, Ethnohistory, Education +8

Social science research on famine: A critical evaluation

William I. Torry · Human Ecology · 1984 · 52 citations

Sustainable Development, Hunger, Poverty +2

Morality and harm: Hindu peasant adjustments to famines

William I. Torry · Social Science Information · 1986 · 42 citations

Livelihood Security, Hindu Peasant Adjustments, Economic Development +6

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