NMC Library

Contextualizing disaster /

Contextualizing disaster / edited by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller. - 208 pages ; 23 cm. - Catastrophes in context ; volume 1 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A Poison Runs Through It : The Elk River Chemical Spill in West Virginia / Gregory V. Button and Erin Eldridge -- Whethering the Storm : The Twin Natures of Typhoon Haiyan and Yolanda / Greg Bankoff and George Emmanual Borrinaga -- "The Tremors Felt 'Round the World" : Haiti's Earthquake as Global Imagined Community / Mark Schuller -- Contested Narratives : Challenging the State's Neoliberal Authority in the Aftermath of the Chilean Earthquake / Nia Parson -- Revelation and Deconstruction : Decentralizing Japan after 3/11 / Bridget Love -- Expert Knowledge and the Ethnography of Disaster Reconstruction / Roberto E. Barrios -- "We Are Always Getting Ready" : How Diverse Notions of Time and Flexibility Build Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Alaska and Tuvalu / Elizabeth Marino and Heather Lazrus -- Tempests, Green Teas, and the Right to Relocate : The Political Ecology of Superstorm Sandy / Melissa Checker.

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Natural disasters--Social aspects.
Natural disasters--Press coverage.
Political ecology.
Globalization.

GB5014 / .C67 2016

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