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Political Science General

Leadership in Disaster

Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change

by (author) Raymond Murphy

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Apr 2009
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773538726
    Publish Date
    Feb 2011
    List Price
    $40.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773535244
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $110.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773577886
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $44.95

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The study looks into whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities to nature's forces, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster. As this extreme weather may foreshadow what will occur with global warming, Murphy's interviews also explore the politics, economics, ethics, and cultural predispositions underlying climate change, investigating how modern societies create both 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-environmental calamities.

About the author

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 and Nature.

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