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Mega-crises understanding the prospects, nature, characteristics, and the effects of cataclysmic events /

"We live in turbulent times with continents and nations facing ever-heightening risks such as natural disasters, intense and protracted conflicts, terrorism, corporate crises, cyber threats to infrastructures and mega-events. We are witnessing the rise of mega-crises and a new class of adversit...

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Други автори: Helsloot, I.
Формат: Електронен
Език: English
Публикувано: Springfield, Ill. : Charles C Thomas, ℗♭2012.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=474975
Подобни документи: Print version:: Mega-crises.
Съдържание:
  • 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.