Leadership in Disaster
Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change
Published on 1. April 2009
480 pages
978-0-7735-7788-6 (ISBN)
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The study looks into whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities to nature's forces, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster. As this extreme weather may foreshadow what will occur with global warming, Murphy's interviews also explore the politics, economics, ethics, and cultural predispositions underlying climate change, investigating how modern societies create both 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-environmental calamities.
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04/2009
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Raymond Murphy is emeritus professor of sociology, University of Ottawa.
