Mega-crises : understanding the prospects, nature, characteristics, and the effects of cataclysmic events /
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Imprint: | Springfield, Ill. : Charles C Thomas, ©2012. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 370 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11138667 |
Table of Contents:
- The concept of mega-crisis and mega-crisis management
- Introduction / Ira Helsloot, Arjen Boin, Brian Jacobs, Louise K. Comfort
- The megacrisis unknown territory: in search of conceptual and strategic / Patrick Lagadec
- Observations on the political and decision-making dimensions of response / Herman B. Leonard, Arnold M. Howitt
- Crisis management of mega-natural disasters
- Hurricane Katrina: crisis leadership that failed a country / John R. Harrald
- Hurricane Katrina: the complex origins of a mega-disaster / Charles Parker, Eric Paglia
- Hurricane Gustav: the management of a transboundary crisis / Arjen Boin, Jude Egan
- Resilience, entropy, and efficiency in crisis management : the January 12, 2010 Haiti earthquake / Louise K. Comfort, Michael D. Siciliano, Aya Okada
- The challenges of mega crisis management : the 2008 Sichuan earthquake / Lan Xue, Ling Zhou
- The micro and macro dynamics of a mega-disaster : rethinking the Sri Lanka tsunami experience / Georg Frerks
- Mega crisis management during the H1N1 pandemic : an argument for citizen and community engagement / Sandra Crouse Quinn, Ira Helsloot
- Crisis management of manmade mega-crisis
- The making of a mega-crisis : 9/11 as a case for the concept / Tricia Wachtendorf, James M. Kendra
- The London bombings of July 7, 2005 / David Alexander
- The Mumbai terrorist attacks 2008 / Ivar Hellberg, Erwin Muller
- How impunity and Kenya's 2008 post elections violence set fire on east Africa's "island of peace" / Cyprian Nyamwamu, Njeri Kabeberi, Augustine Magolowondo
- Mega crisis in fragile states / Rob de Wijk
- Corporate meltdowns / Les Coleman
- The post-subprime crisis global credit crunch / Matthew Watson
- The subprime crisis / Don M. Chance
- Megacities under adversity : ideology, risk, and good urban governance / Brian Jacobs
- Identifying mega-threats and vulnerabilities
- The Olympic games : coping with risks and vulnerabilities of a mega-event / Will Jennings, Martin Lodge
- Energy : exploring complexity as a dynamic vulnerability in high-voltage electricity grids / Mark de Bruijne
- Global climate change as environmental megacrisis / Joanna Endter-Wada, Helen Ingram
- The Dutch delta : a mega crisis waiting to happen? / Karen Engel, Bas Kolen, Herman van der Most, Kees van Ruiten
- Risks to food security : contingency planning for agri-megacrises / Hendrik J. Bruins
- Megacrises and the internet : risks, incentives, and externalities / Michel van Eeten, Johannes M. Bauer.