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Disasters in Paradise
Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability, and Development Decisions
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Disasters in Paradise
Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability, and Development Decisions
About this book
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 explore how these practices have increased the vulnerability of Floridians to hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, droughts, frosts, and forest fires.
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Yes, you can access Disasters in Paradise by Amanda D. Concha-Holmes,Anthony Oliver-Smith in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sozialwissenschaften & Anthropologie. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Acronyms
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability, and Development in Florida
- 2 Eye on The Storm: Development and Disaster in The Sunshine State. Hurricane Opal. A Case Study
- 3 Twisted State: Patterns of Resilience and Vulnerability in the Osceola County, Florida 1998 Tornadoes
- 4 Disaster in Apalachicola: Storms, the Oyster Industry, and Development Decisions
- 5 Drought, Unsustainable Water Practices, and the Social Construction of Risk in Glades County
- 6 Needed and Feared: The Unavoidable Vulnerability to Forest Fires in Florida
- 7 humaNature, Citrus, and Disaster in north central Florida: Frost in the Sunshine State
- 8 Climate Change, Disasters, and Development in Florida
- Index
- About the Contributors