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Leadership in Disaster
Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change
Overview
Murphy explores whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster.
Climate and Society
As the extreme weather in the ice storm may foreshadow what will occur with global warming, Leadership in Disaster also explores the politics, economics, ethics, and cultural predispositions involved in climate change, investigating how modern societies create both the risks they assume are acceptable and the burden of managing them.
Lessons from Amish Communities
An innovative comparison with Amish communities, where the same extreme weather had trivial consequences, is instructive for avoiding future socio-economic catastrophes.
