Leadership in Disaster: Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change 9780773575233
Environmental disasters occur when natural hazards strike areas of socio-technological vulnerability. We expect our lead
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Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Map
Introduction
PART ONE: SOCIAL ACTION IN ITS BIOPHYSICAL CONTEXT
1 The Modernization of Risk
2 The Internalization of Autonomous Nature into Society
PART TWO: THE DANCE OF HUMANS WITH NATURE’S MOVEMENTS
3 Vulnerability to Nature’s Hazards
4 The Natural Disaster Ends, but the Technological Disaster Continues
5 The Arduous Return to Normality
6 Learning from Disaster
PART THREE: LEADERSHIP IN DISASTER
7 Worse than the Worst-Case Scenario
8 From Openness to Secrecy as the Crisis Deepened
9 Leaders in Conflict during a Disaster
10 Making Sense of Disaster and Its Management
PART FOUR: LEARNING FOR A FUTURE WITH GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
11 Preparing to Avoid Disaster or Preparing for Disaster
12 The Acute and the Chronic
13 Extreme Weather without Disaster: A Reminder for Moderns
14 Survival in the New Frontier
APPENDIX ONE: Methodology: Doing Interviews at the Top and Listening to Plain Folk
APPENDIX TWO: The Interview Guide
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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