Leadership in Disaster
Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2009
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780773538726
- Publish Date
- Feb 2011
- List Price
- $40.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780773535244
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $125.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773577886
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $44.95
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Description
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.
