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Leadership in Disaster: Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change

Leadership in Disaster: Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change

Murphy, Raymond

Paperback

Environmental StudiesGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $40.95

ISBN10: 0773538720
ISBN13: 9780773538726
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Feb 2 2011
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

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