Murphy explores whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster. 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. An innovative comparison with Amish communities, where the same extreme weather had trivial consequences, is instructive for avoiding future socio-economic catastrophes.
- ISBN10 0773535241
- ISBN13 9780773535244
- Publish Date 1 April 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 October 2024
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint McGill-Queen's University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 480
- Language English