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Disasters in paradise : natural hazards, social vulnerability, and development decisions / edited by Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith.
Lippincott Library HC107.F63 E5283 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural disasters--Florida--Case studies.
- Natural disasters.
- Economic development--Environmental aspects--Florida--Case studies.
- Economic development.
- Economic development--Social aspects--Florida--Case studies.
- Economic development--Environmental aspects.
- Economic development--Social aspects.
- Florida.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Long considered ground zero for global climate change in the United States, Florida presents the perfect case study for disaster risk and prevention. Building on the idea that disasters are produced by historical and contemporary social processes as well as natural phenomena, Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith present a collection of ethnographic case studies that examine the social and environmental effects of Florida's public and private sector development policies. Contributors to Disasters in Paradise: Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability, and Development Decisions explore how these practices have increased the vulnerability of Floridians to hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, frosts, and forest fires"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Natural hazards, social vulnerability, and development in Florida / Anthony Oliver-Smith
- Eye on the storm : development and disaster in the Sunshine State, Hurricane Opal. A case study / Sarah Cervone
- Twisted state : patterns of resilience and vulnerability in the Osceola County, Florida, 1998 tornadoes / Joanna Reilly-Brown
- Disaster in Appalachicola : storms, the oyster industry, and development decisions / Chris Berry and Amanda Concha-Holmes
- Drought, unsustainable water practices, and the social construction of risk in Glade County / Astrid Wigidal
- Needed and feared : the unavoidable vulnerability to forest fires in Florida / Byron Real
- humaNature, citrus, and disaster in north central Florida : frost in the Sunshine State / Amanda Concha-Holmes and Juan Concha-Holmes
- Climate change, disasters, and development in Florida / Anthony Oliver-Smith.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 0739177370
- 9780739177372
- OCLC:
- 1104469695
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