Leadership in disaster : learning for a future with global climate change / / Raymond Murphy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910828414603321
• Autore: Murphy Raymond <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 0-7735-7788-2; 1-282-86578-1; 9786612865787; 0-7735-7523-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (419 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.34/92609713
• Soggetti: Climatic changes - Canada; Climatic changes - United States; Emergency management - Planning; Ice storms - Canada, Eastern; Ice storms - New England; Leadership
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Social Action in Its Biophysical Context -- The Modernization of Risk -- The Internalization of Autonomous Nature into Society -- The Dance of Humans with Nature’s Movements -- Vulnerability to Nature’s Hazards -- The Natural Disaster Ends, but the Technological Disaster Continues -- The Arduous Return to Normality -- Learning from Disaster -- Leadership in Disaster -- Worse than the Worst-Case Scenario -- From Openness to Secrecy as the Crisis Deepened -- Leaders in Conflict during a Disaster -- Making Sense of Disaster and Its Management -- Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change -- Preparing to Avoid Disaster or Preparing for Disaster -- The Acute and the Chronic -- Extreme Weather without Disaster: A Reminder for Moderns -- Survival in the New Frontier -- Methodology: Doing Interviews at the Top and Listening to Plain Folk -- The Interview Guide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Murphy explores whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster. As the extreme weather in the ice storm may foreshadow what will occur with global warming, Leadership in Disaster also explores the politics, economics, ethics, and cultural predispositions involved in climate change, investigating how modern societies create both the risks they assume are acceptable and the burden of managing them. An innovative comparison with Amish communities, where the same extreme weather had trivial consequences, is instructive for avoiding future socio-economic catastrophes.