INTROAn activity we participate in daily is belonging and being part of a community. We live in a world where associating and identifying with certain groups is how we share common interests and are responsible for dealing with whatever may come our way. The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the differences and similarities between the approaches seen from the Chicago heat wave and the Buffalo Creek flood. The main differences concern the historical basis, the relationship with the land, physical/social vulnerability, problematic development, the choices we make and media coverage. Kleinberg and Erikson both offer greater variety in what exactly a disaster or community consists of. While both have overlapping themes and ideas, their methodological approaches and expectations of a community facing a disaster differ significantly. THE ERIKSON APPROACH (historical foundations, relationship with the land, choices we make) The most notable difference between these two approaches also appears to be a key factor in both catastrophic events. Erikson's conceptual approach to the study of disasters and communities is largely based on historical foundations. Erikson emphasizes that the importance of his approach is to be able to understand what a certain place was like in a historical moment and the communication that was involved within that community. Erikson describes the mountaineering community as: “In a country with no public institutions, no townships, no systems of social control, few stable congregations, and no other associations of any kind, membership in a family unit was the only source of identification and support. one had." (p. 59) From this approach, we learned that mountaineers had a very intensely individual means of paper......adapted by the integration of others as Erikson's approach integrated the key aspect of response to changing conditions, which is something the city of Chicago desperately needed to work on And Klinenberg's approach integrated the key aspect of construction as a public event, which, despite the media coverage, the flood lacked. of Buffalo Creek themes derived from both authors' approaches; historical foundation, the relationship with the land, the choices we make, problematic development, media coverage and physical/social vulnerability allow us to generate knowledge about the loss of community and on the production of disasters within the social world. Although natural disasters are inevitable, many people see them in different ways, but both of these authors and approaches offer citizens to take responsibility and learn the degree of lessons to be prepared. for the future.