The political economy of hazards and disasters
By: edited by Eric C. Jones and Arthur D. Murphy.
Contributors: Jones, Eric C., 1970-; Murphy, Arthur D.
Series: Society for economic anthropology (SEA) monographs -- No. 27
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780759113091; 9780759113114
Subjects: Disasters -- Case studies; Disasters -- Economic aspects; Emergency management
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Linking broad-scale political economic contexts to fine-scale economic consequences in disaster research / Eric C Jones and Arthur D Murphy; title: Anthropology and the political economy of disasters / Anthony Oliver-Smith; title: "The dam is becoming dangerous and may possibly go" : the paleodemography and political economy of the Johnstown flood of 1889 / Leslie Lea Williams; title: The invisible toll of Katrina : how social and economic resources are altering the recovery experience among Katrina evacuees in Colorado / Megan Underhill; title: Recovering inequality : democracy, the market economy and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire / Shelly Brown and Steve Kroll-Smith; title: Weak winters : dynamic decision-making in the face of extended drought in Ceará, Northeast Brazil / Donald R Nelson, Timothy J Finan; title: The impact of volcanic hazards on the ancient Olmec and epi-Olmec economies in Los Tuxtlas Region, Veracruz, Mexico / Olaf Jaime-Riveron and Christopher Pool; title: If the pyroclastic flow doesn't kill you, the recovery will : cascading impacts of Mt. Tungurahua's eruptions in rural ecuador / Linda M Whiteford, Graham A Tobin; title: When the lights go out : understanding natural hazard and merchant "brownout" behavior in the provincial Philippines / Ty Matejowsky.