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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Eric C., 1970-

Murphy, Arthur D.

Series:

Society for Economic Anthropology monographs ; v. 27.

Society for Economic Anthropology monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disasters--Case studies.

Disasters.

Disasters--Economic aspects.

Emergency management.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 351 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : AltaMira Press, [2009]

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 / Donald R. Nelson and 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780759113091

0759113092

9780759113114

0759113114

OCLC:

263147008