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 (SEA) monographs ; no. 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disasters--Case studies.

Disasters.

Disasters--Economic aspects.

Emergency management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : AltaMira Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-282-49800-2

9786612498008

0-7591-1311-4

OCLC:

431334231