Contextualizing disaster / / edited by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller.
Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book arg...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, London, [England] : : Berghahn,, 2016. ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Catastrophes in Context ;
Volume 1 |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (214 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- A Poison Runs Through It : The Elk River Chemical Spill in West Virginia / Gregory V. Button and Erin Eldridge
- Whethering the Storm : The Twin Natures of Typhoon Haiyan and Yolanda / Greg Bankoff and George Emmanual Borrinaga
- The Tremors Felt 'Round the World : Haiti's Earthquake as Global Imagined Community / Mark Schuller
- Contested Narratives : Challenging the State's Neoliberal Authority in the Aftermath of the Chilean Earthquake / Nia Parson
- Revelation and Deconstruction : Decentralizing Japan after 3/11 / Bridget Love
- Adapting Expert Knowledge To The Social and Environmental Particularties of Disaster Affected Localities / Roberto E. Barrios
- "We Are Always Getting Ready" : How Diverse Notions of Time and Flexibility Build Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Alaska and Tuvalu / Elizabeth Marino and Heather Lazrus
- Tempests, Green Teas, and the Right to Relocate : The Political Ecology of Superstorm Sandy / Melissa Checker.