Leadership in Disaster

Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change

Raymond Murphy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2011
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7735-3872-6 (ISBN)

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How leaders respond when technological successes create vulnerability and nature ceases to be motherly.

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.

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

Verlagsort	Montreal
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-7735-3872-0 / 0773538720
ISBN-13	978-0-7735-3872-6 / 9780773538726
Zustand	Neuware