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Leadership in Disaster: Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change
Raymond Murphy
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Description for Leadership in Disaster: Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change
paperback. How leaders respond when technological successes create vulnerability and nature ceases to be motherly. Num Pages: 424 pages, maps. BIC Classification: JFFC; JPQB; RBP; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 672.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773538726
SKU
V9780773538726
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99-3
About Raymond Murphy
Raymond Murphy is emeritus professor of sociology, University of Ottawa, president of the Environment and Society Research Committee of the International Sociological Association, and the author of numerous books, including Social Closure and Rationality
Reviews for Leadership in Disaster: Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change
"Leadership in Disaster is beautifully written and deserving of a wide readership." Peter Dickens, University of Cambridge "A welcome addition to the field of disaster research which draws together classical and modern theories to argue for an epistemological expansion of the social sciences." Canadian Journal of Sociology