Leadership in Disaster ：Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change

Publication subTitle ：Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change

Author： Murphy   Raymond  

Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year： 2009

E-ISBN: 9780773575233

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773535244

Subject： P426.616 Precipitation - induced disasters

Keyword： 政治、法律

Language： ENG

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Description

Disasters occur when hazards of nature strike socio-technological vulnerabilities. While science provides valuable indications of risk, it does not yield certainty, yet leaders must make sense of threats. Raymond Murphy's case study of the management of the 1998 ice storm - the most costly disaster ever in Canada, northern New York state, and Maine - presents rare interviews with key political and emergency management leaders that provide an insider's view of the challenge of responding to extreme weather. They document a generally well managed crisis, but also reveal the slippery slope from transparency to withholding critical information as the crisis deepened, and examine conflict resolution between leaders during a disaster.

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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

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