18 Acts of God: Film, Religion, and “FX”

2020 ◽  
pp. 331-354
Author(s):  
Judith Wilt
Keyword(s):  
Acts Of God

Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America

2002 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Martin V. Melosi ◽  
Ted Steinberg
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disaster ◽  
History Of ◽  
Acts Of God

scholarly journals Forensic Investigations of Crane Accidents

1991 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J. Alterman
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Property Damage ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
Operator Error ◽  
The Past ◽  
Forensic Investigations ◽  
Acts Of God ◽  
Natural Calamity

The following information has been acquired over the past 15 years assisting insurance adjusters and attorneys. Quite often we are asked to establish the scope of the loss, prepare an estimate of damages, express an opinion as to the cause of the accident and sometimes assist the insured in mitigating the loss. On occasion, we have provided personnel to monitor the repairs and review all expenditures. The various types of cases which are described herein were selected to reflect the variety of cranes, the different causes of accidents, the unusual problems encountered in performing our duties and proposed methods for eliminating loss of life and mitigating property damage. The causation of crane accidents can be classified in three general categories; (#I) Natural Calamity or Acts of God; (#2) Failure of the Equipment and (#3) Operator Error. An increased awareness of safety in the work environment can be enhanced by the examination of accidents, the identification of the hazard

Natural Hazards: from Plinius’ time to the Anthropocene

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Keyword(s):  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
Volcanic Eruptions ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Distribution ◽  
Multiple Hazards ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Behavioral Heuristics ◽  
Acts Of God

<p>Plinius (23-79 AD) is known worldwide as the author of the encyclopedic Naturalis Historia. He died in Stabiae while trying to rescue his family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, one of the deadliest volcanic eruptions in European history that also destroyed the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii. At that time, natural hazards were mostly seen as “acts of God(s)”. Instead, in today’s Anthropocene, extreme events coexist with two dichotomic (and rather simplistic) views: “disasters are natural” vs. “humans are to blame since they live in risky areas”. In this lecture, I present scientific and societal challenges associated with the increasing impact (from Plinius’ time to the Anthropocene) of humans on the spatial and temporal distribution of natural hazards. I also problematize and challenge myths, preconceptions and conventional wisdoms related with uncertainty, behavioral heuristics, expert vs. local knowledge, social power and inequalities. To this end, I review recent studies in various socioeconomic contexts, and across multiple hazards, with a focus on five events that have significantly influenced my research work: the 1963 Vajont Dam landslide, the 2004 flooding in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake, the water crisis (Day Zero) during the 2015-2017 drought in Cape Town and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.</p>

6. Acts of God and acts of man

1992 ◽  
pp. 109-131
Author(s):  
Maggie Black
Keyword(s):  
Acts Of God

Other ‘Acts of God’

1973 ◽  
pp. 102-108
Author(s):  
Susan Wooldridge ◽  
Colin R. Corder ◽  
Claude R. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Acts Of God

scholarly journals Reporting Near Misses at Sea

1976 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 414-418
Author(s):  
D. Nicolson
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Interesting Point ◽  
Wrong Decision ◽  
Near Misses ◽  
Human System ◽  
Diplomatic Immunity ◽  
Radar Information ◽  
Acts Of God

Not surprisingly much of the work that has been done on collision at sea has involved the study of collisions which have actually occurred. There must however be a wealth of untapped data relating to ‘near misses’ judging by the hair-raising stories often told by ships' officers. These accounts, sometimes of ships passing one another so closely in fog that human sounds have been heard, are doubtless subject to embellishment but are, nevertheless, the stuff that nightmares are made of.An interesting point which (perhaps predictably) features in many such stories is that the navigator presents himself as a victim of circumstances rather than one who has suffered the effects of a wrong decision. Curiously the ‘other ship’ sometimes shares this diplomatic immunity. Discounting ‘acts of God’ then, is there room for a category of encounter in which blame is minimized or even ruled out? In the discussion following a recent paper Captain F. J. Wylie states that between 1948 and 1966 most of the collisions he had studied which had come to court had, according to the Judge, been due to personal error (generally related to the Rules or misinterpretation of radar information). This no doubt reflects the situation in a true light provided one accepts that it may occasionally be necessary to distinguish between ‘personal error’ and blame. The two might not go together, for example, when the error is due to overloading of the human system or under-exposure to congested waters—a view which appears to be gaining support in some quarters.

Acts of God: fair game

JAMA ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 241 (26) ◽  
pp. 2780-2780
Author(s):  
P. Gunby
Keyword(s):  
Fair Game ◽  
Acts Of God
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document