Crisis, disaster, and risk
Subtitle: institutional response and emergence
By: by Kyle Farmbry
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Armonk, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780765624192
Subjects: Emergency management; Sociological aspects; Risk; Disaster relief
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Optimism interrogated: the earthquake and tsunamis of 1755 and 2004; title: Earthquakes and progressive era revival; title: Limits of the built environment: hurricanes and choices of locality; title: Plague as crisis and corollary to societal change; title: Germ theory, cholera, and infectious disease; title: Infectious disease and nascent public health infrastructures: the 1918; title: Twentieth century optimism; title: HIV/AIDS; title: Anticipated health crises; title: The multiple crises of a nuclear era; title: Balancing the optimism and risks of civilian nuclear energy; title: Hazardous waste; title: Industrial accidents and determining liability: Bhopal; title: Oil.