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Author Murphy, Raymond, 1943-

Title Leadership in disaster : learning for a future with global climate change / Raymond Murphy
Published Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 406 pages) : maps
Contents 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 Disaster10 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J
Kl -- m -- n -- o -- p -- q -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y -- z
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Climatic changes -- Canada
Climatic changes -- United States
Emergency management.
Ice storms -- Canada, Eastern
Ice storms -- New England
Leadership.
Leadership
NATURE -- Natural Disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
Climatic changes
Emergency management
Ice storms
Leadership
Climat -- Changements -- Canada.
Climat -- Changements -- États-Unis.
Gestion des situations d'urgence -- Planification.
Leadership.
Tempêtes de verglas -- Canada (Est).
Tempêtes de verglas -- Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Canada
Eastern Canada
New England
United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009279361
ISBN 9780773575233
0773575235
0773535241
9780773535244