The political economy of hazards and disasters [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Eric C. Jones and Arthur D. Murphy

• Pubblicazione: Lanham, : AltaMira Press, c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.34
• Soggetto topico: Disasters; Disasters - Economic aspects; Emergency management
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: JonesEric C. <1970-> MurphyArthur D
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The political economy of hazards and disasters
• ISBN: 1-282-49800-2; 9786612498008; 0-7591-1311-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454582303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; ; v. 27.