Main entry:

Disasters: Recipes and Remedies (2007 : New School)

Title & Author:

Disasters : recipes and remedies / [editor, Arien Mack].

Description:

x pages, pages 655-1034 : maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Cover title.
"This issue contains papers from the seventeenth Social research conference, Disasters: Recipes and Remedies, which took place at the New School in November 2007"--Page ix
Includes bibliographical references and statistical information.
Endangered scholars worldwide -- Editor's introduction / Arien Mack -- pt. 1. Definitions : what we talk about when we talk about disasters -- Introduction : what we talk about when we talk about disasters / Jonathan Veitch -- A physical science perspective on disaster : through the prism of global warming / Michael Oppenheimer -- Possibilistic thinking : a new conceptual tool for thinking about extreme events / Lee Clarke -- Preconditions of disaster : premonitions of tragedy -- pt. 2. Acquiring vulnerabilities that potentiate disasters -- Introduction : the potential for catastrophe / Ronald Kassimir -- Disasters evermore? : Reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters / Charles Perrow -- Differential vulnerabilities : environmental and economic inequality and government response to unnatural disasters / Robert D. Bullard -- Population vulnerabilities, preconditions, and the consequences of disasters / Irwin Redlener -- The politics of infrastructure / Joseph W. Westphal -- pt. 3. Keynote address -- Disaster planning and preparedness : a human story / Nicholas Scoppetta -- pt. 4. What "really" happens when disasters happen : preparations and responses -- Introduction : what "really" happens when disasters happen : preparations and responses / Joel Towers -- Toward a new risk architecture : the question of catastrophe risk calculus / Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan -- Fear, denial, and sensible action in the face of disaster / Elliot Aronson -- Conventional beliefs and counterintuitive realities / Enrico L. Quarantelli -- Reducing losses from catastrophic risks through long-term insurance and mitigation / Howard Kunreuther -- pt. 5. The impact of disasters on human development -- Introduction : thinking possibilistically in a probabalistic world / Lee Clarke -- Disaster impacts : implications and policy responses / Reid Basher -- Risk, migration, and rural financial markets : evidence from earthquakes in El Salvador / Dean Yang -- After the storm : rebuilding cities upon reflexive infrastructure / William R. Morrish -- Disasters and health : distress, disorders, and disaster behaviors in communities, neighborhoods, and nations / Robert J. Ursano, Carol S. Fullerton, and Artin Terhakopian -- Notes on contributors.

Summary:

Issue of the journal Social research on the topic of disasters.

ISBN:

9781933481142
1933481145

Subject:

Disasters Congresses.
Emergency management Congresses.
Catastrophes Congrès.
Disasters.
Emergency management.

Form/genre:

Statistics - k.
Publications - k - Conference - v.
Conference papers and proceedings.

Host item:

Social research. Vol. 75, no. 3 (fall 2008)

Added entries:

Mack, Arien.
New School (New York, N.Y.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263421
Call No.: HV551.2 .D57 2007
Status: Available