Leadership in Disaster : Learning for a Future with Global Climate Change.

Cover -- 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 Disaster -- 10 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 -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Environmental disasters occur when natural hazards strike areas of socio-technological vulnerability. We expect our leaders to prepare for such threats, but they must do so using current science, which provides valuable indications of risk but not certainty. Raymond Murphy's study of the management of the 1998 ice storm - the most costly environmental disaster ever for Canada and the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and northern New York - uses rare interviews with key political and emergency management leaders to provide an insider's view of the challenge of responding to extreme weather. While documenting a generally well-managed crisis, the interviews also reveal the slippery slope from transparency to withholding information that developed as the crisis deepened, and examine how conflict is resolved between leaders during a disaster.

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