The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters
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The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters

  1. 366 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters

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Throughout history, societies have had to decide whom to "sacrifice" and whom to help in times of disaster. This volume examines how elite groups attempt to maintain power through the use of particular economic, political, and ideological instruments and how both ruling elites and common people endeavor to create meaningful traditions while enduring hardship.The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters demonstrates how vulnerability is economically constructed, primary producers adapt their production regimes, how traders and merchants adapt their practices, and how political economic objectives play out in recovery efforts.

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Yes, you can access The Political Economy of Hazards and Disasters by Eric C. Jones,Arthur D. Murphy in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
AltaMira Press
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9780759113114
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. List of Tables
  4. List of Figures
  5. Part I. ECONOMIC PARAMETERS OF DISASTERS
  6. Chapter 01. Linking Broad-Scale Political Economic Contexts to Fine-Scale Economic Consequences in Disaster Research
  7. Chapter 02. Anthropology and the Political Economy of Disasters
  8. Part II. CLASS-BASED VULNERABILITY IN DISASTER EXPOSURE, IMPACT, AND RECOVERY
  9. Chapter 03. “The Dam is Becoming Dangerous and May Possibly Go”1: The Paleodemography and Political Economy of the Johnstown Flood of 1889
  10. Chapter 04. The Invisible Toll of Katrina: How Social and Economic Resources are Altering the Recovery Experience among Katrina Evacuees in Colorado
  11. Chapter 05. Recovering Inequality: Democracy, the Market Economy, and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire
  12. Part III. THE LINE BETWEEN HAZARD AND DISASTER FOR PRIMARY PRODUCERS
  13. Chapter 06. Weak Winters: Dynamic Decision-Making in the Face of Extended Drought in CearĂĄ, Northeast Brazil
  14. Chapter 07. The Impact of Volcanic Hazards on the Ancient Olmec and Epi-Olmec Economies in the Los Tuxtlas Region, Veracruz, Mexico
  15. Chapter 08. If the Pyroclastic Flow Doesn’t Kill You, the Recovery Will: Cascading Impacts of Mt. Tungurahua’s Eruptions in Rural Ecuador
  16. Part IV. PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION IN HAZARDOUS SETTINGS
  17. Chapter 09. When the Lights Go Out: Understanding Natural Hazard and Merchant “Brownout” Behavior in the Provincial Philippines
  18. Chapter 10. Where Others Fear to Trade: Modeling Adaptive Resilience in Ethnic Trading Networks to Famines, Maritime Warfare, and Imperial Stability in the Growing Indian Ocean Economy, ca. 1500–1700 CE
  19. Chapter 11. Madagascar’s Cyclone Vulnerability and the Global Vanilla Economy
  20. Part V. POLITICAL ECONOMIC MITIGATION OF DISASTERS
  21. Chapter 12. Learning from Disaster? Mad Cows, Squatter Fires, and Temporality in Repeated Crises
  22. Chapter 13. “Hurricanes Did Not Just Start Happening”: Expectations of Intervention in the Mississippi Gulf Coast Casino Industry
  23. Chapter 14. From the Phoenix Effect to Punctuated Entropy: The Culture of Response as a Unifying Paradigm of Disaster Mitigation and Recovery
  24. Index
  25. About the Authors