Leadership in Disaster: Learning for a Future With Global Climate Change - Couverture souple

Murphy, Raymond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0773538720 ISBN 13 : 9780773538726

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0773538720
• ISBN 13: 9780773538726
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 424
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• Personne responsable: non disponible