Leadership in Disaster

How leaders respond when technological successes create vulnerability and nature ceases to be motherly

Disasters occur when hazards of nature strike socio-technological vulnerabilities. This title contributes to the analysis of vulnerability, resilience, and the challenge of confronting environmental problems. It is suitable for scholars and general readers who seek to learn about how extreme weather disasters can be managed.Murphy explores whether technological development inadvertently constructed new vulnerabilities, thereby manufacturing a natural disaster. As the extreme weather in the ice storm may foreshadow what will occur with global warming, Leadership in Disaster also explores the politics, economics, ethics, and cultural predispositions involved in climate change, investigating how modern societies create both the risks they assume are acceptable and the burden of managing them. An innovative comparison with Amish communities, where the same extreme weather had trivial consequences, is instructive for avoiding future socio-economic catastrophes.