The political economy of hazards and disasters

The political economy of hazards and disasters / edited by Eric C. Jones and Arthur D. Murphy.

This volume explores the ways in which economies deal with severe crises: how vulnerability is economically constructed, how production and trade practices adapt to new situations, and how political economic objectives play out in recovery efforts.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jones, Eric C., 1970-, Murphy, Arthur D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : AltaMira Press, ©2009.
Series:Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; v. 27.
Subjects:
Disasters > Case studies.
Disasters > Economic aspects.
Emergency management.
NATURE > Natural Disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Disasters
Disasters > Economic aspects
Emergency management
Naturkatastrophe
Wirtschaft
Katastrophenschutz
Katastrofer > ekonomiska aspekter > fallstudier.
Katastrofberedskap.
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
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Table of Contents:
  • Linking broad-scale political economic contexts to fine-scale economic consequences in disaster research / Eric C. Jones and Arthur D. Murphy
  • Anthropology and the political economy of disasters / Anthony Oliver-Smith
  • "The dam is becoming dangerous and may possibly go" : the paleodemography and political economy of the Johnstown flood of 1889 / Leslie Lea Williams
  • The invisible toll of Katrina : how social and economic resources are altering the recovery experience among Katrina evacuees in Colorado / Megan Underhill
  • Recovering inequality : democracy, the market economy, and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire / Shelly Brown-Jeffy and Steve Kroll-Smith
  • Weak winters : dynamic decision-making in the face of extended drought in Ceará, Northeast Brazil / Timothy J. Finan
  • The impact of volcanic hazards on the ancient Olmec and epi-Olmec economies in the Los Tuxtlas Region, Veracruz, Mexico / Olaf Jaime-Riverón and Christopher Pool
  • If the pyroclastic flow doesn't kill you, the recovery will : cascading impacts of Mt. Tungurahua's eruptions in rural Ecuador / Linda M. Whiteford and Graham A. Tobin
  • When the lights go out : understanding natural hazard and merchant "brownout" behavior in the provincial Philippines / Ty Matejowsky
  • Where others fear to trade : modeling adaptive resilience in ethnic trading networks to famines, maritime warfare, and imperial stability in the growing Indian Ocean economy, ca. 1500-1700 CE / Rahul Oka, Chapurukha M. Kusimba, and Vishwas D. Gogte
  • Madagascar's cyclone vulnerability and the global vanilla economy / Margaret L. Brown
  • Learning from disaster? Mad cows, squatter fires, and temporality in repeated crises / Alan Smart and Josephine Smart
  • "Hurricanes did not just start happening" : expectations of intervention in the Mississippi Gulf Coast casino industry / Jennifer Trivedi
  • From the Phoenix effect to punctuated entropy : the culture of response as a unifying paradigm of disaster mitigation and recovery / Christopher L. Dyer.

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