Leadership in disaster : learning for a future with global climate change / Raymond Murphy.

• Pt. 1. Social action in its biophysical context -- 1. The modernization of risk -- 2. The internalization of autonomous nature into society -- Pt. 2. 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 -- Pt. 3. 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 -- Pt. 4. 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 1. Methodology : doing interviews at the top and listening to plain folk -- Appendix 2. Interview guide.

• A major contribution to the analysis of vulnerability, resilience, and the challenge of confronting environmental problems such as global climate change, 'Leadership in Disaster' is also a resource for scholars and general readers seeking to learn more about how extreme weather disasters can be managed. 

Ämnesord

Ice storms  -- Canada, Eastern. (LCSH)

Ice storms  -- New England. (LCSH)

Emergency management  -- Planning. (LCSH)

Climatic changes  -- Canada. (LCSH)

Climatic changes  -- United States. (LCSH)

Leadership.  (LCSH)

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