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Leadership in disaster : learning for a future with global climate change
- Title
- Leadership in disaster : learning for a future with global climate change / Raymond Murphy.
- Author
- Murphy, Raymond, 1943-
- Publication
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2009], ©2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | QC926.45.C2 M87 2009g | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 406 pages : map; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-397) and index.
- Contents
- 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 -- App. 1. Methodology: Doing Interviews at the Top and Listening to Plain Folk -- App. 2. The Interview Guide.
- ISBN
- 9780773535244
- 0773535241
- LCCN
- 99933835205
- OCLC
- ocn277196357
- 277196357
- SCSB-5472323
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries