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The political economy of hazards and disasters [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eric C. Jones and Arthur D. Murphy |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Lanham, : AltaMira Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-49800-2 |
9786612498008 |
0-7591-1311-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (366 p.) |
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Collana |
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Society for economic anthropology (SEA) monographs ; ; no. 27 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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JonesEric C. <1970-> |
MurphyArthur D |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Disasters |
Disasters - Economic aspects |
Emergency management |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Linking broad-scale political economic contexts to fine-scale economic consequences in disaster research / Eric C. Jones and Arthur D. Murphy -- Anthropology and the political economy of disasters / Anthony Oliver-Smith -- "The dam is becoming dangerous and may possibly go" : the paleodemography and political economy of the Johnstown flood of 1889 / Leslie Lea Williams -- The invisible toll of Katrina : how social and economic resources are altering the recovery experience among Katrina evacuees in Colorado / Megan Underhill -- Recovering inequality : democracy, the market economy, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire / Shelly Brown-Jeffy and Steve Kroll-Smith -- Weak winters : dynamic decision-making in the face of extended drought in Ceará, Northeast Brazil / Timothy J. Finan -- The impact of volcanic hazards on the ancient Olmec and epi-Olmec economies in the Los Tuxtlas Region, Veracruz, Mexico / Olaf Jaime-Riverón and Christopher Pool -- If the pyroclastic flow doesn't kill you, the recovery will : cascading impacts of Mt. Tungurahua's eruptions in rural Ecuador / Linda M. Whiteford and Graham A. Tobin -- When the |
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lights go out : understanding natural hazard and merchant "brownout" behavior in the provincial Philippines / Ty Matejowsky -- Where others fear to trade : modeling adaptive resilience in ethnic trading networks to famines, maritime warfare, and imperial stability in the growing Indian Ocean economy, ca. 1500-1700 CE / Rahul Oka, Chapurukha M. Kusimba, and Vishwas D. Gogte -- Madagascar's cyclone vulnerability and the global vanilla economy / Margaret L. Brown -- Learning from disaster? Mad cows, squatter fires, and temporality in repeated crises / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart -- "Hurricanes did not just start happening" : expectations of intervention in the Mississippi Gulf Coast casino industry / Jennifer Trivedi -- From the Phoenix effect to punctuated entropy : the culture of response as a unifying paradigm of disaster mitigation and recovery / Christopher L. Dyer. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This volume explores the ways in which economies deal with severe crises: how vulnerability is economically constructed, how production and trade practices adapt to new situations, and how political economic objectives play out in recovery efforts. |
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