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Title:
Contextualizing disaster : globalization, media, and the construction of catastrophe / edited by Gregory V. Button and Mark Schuller.
Publisher:
Berghahn Books,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
pages cm.
Subject:
Natural disasters--Social aspects.
Natural disasters--Press coverage.
Political ecology.
Globalization.
Other Authors:
Button, Gregory, editor.
Schuller, Mark, 1973- editor.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
A Poison Runs Through It : The Elk River Chemical Spill in West Virginia / Gregory V. Button and Erin Eldridge -- Whethering the Storm : The Twin Natures of Typhoon Haiyan and Yolanda / Greg Bankoff and George Emmanual Borrinaga -- The Tremors Felt 'Round the World : Haiti's Earthquake as Global Imagined Community / Mark Schuller -- Contested Narratives : Challenging the State's Neoliberal Authority in the Aftermath of the Chilean Earthquake / Nia Parson -- Revelation and Deconstruction : Decentralizing Japan after 3/11 / Bridget Love -- Adapting Expert Knowledge To The Social and Environmental Particularties of Disaster Affected Localities / Roberto E. Barrios -- "We Are Always Getting Ready" : How Diverse Notions of Time and Flexibility Build Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Alaska and Tuvalu / Elizabeth Marino and Heather Lazrus -- Tempests, Green Teas, and the Right to Relocate : The Political Ecology of Superstorm Sandy / Melissa Checker.
Series:
Catastrophes in context ; v. 1
ISBN:
1785332805 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781785332807 (hardback : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)955778681
LCCN:
2016022447
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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