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Informationen zum Autor Kyle Farmbry is Associate Dean of the Graduate School and is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers University–Newark. Klappentext This book explores the interactions of theories of risk with natural disasters, health crises, and crises in the areas of science and technology. Using organizational frameworks developed exclusively by the author, it provides a series of best practices and lessons related to each of the emergency and crisis situations covered. These lessons will assist students and practitioners, engaged in learning about and reacting to crises, to better respond to them. The mass protests that erupted in China during the spring of 1989 were not confined to Beijing and Shanghai. Cities and towns across the great breadth of China were engulfed by demonstrations, which differed regionally in content and tone: the complaints and protest actions in prosperous Fuijan Province on the south China coast were somewhat different from those in Manchuria or inland Xi'an or the country towns of Hunan. The variety of the reactions is a barometer of the political and economic climate in contemporary China. In this book, Western China specialists who were on the spot that spring describe and analyze the upsurges of protest that erupted around them. Zusammenfassung This book explores the interactions of theories of risk with natural disasters, health crises, and crises in the areas of science and technology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Crisis, Disaster, and Risk in a Late-Modern Era, Part I. Natural Disasters as Crises 1. Optimism Interrogated: The Earthquakes and Tsunamis of 1755 and 2004, 2. Earthquakes and Progressive-Era Revival 3. Limits of the Built Environment: Hurricanes and Choices of Locality, Part II. Global Public Health 4. Plague as Crisis and Corollary to Societal Change 5. Germ Theory, Cholera, and Infectious Disease 6. Infectious Disease and Nascent Public Health Infrastructures: The 1918 Influenza Epidemic 7. Twentieth-Century Optimism 8. HIV/AIDS 9. Anticipated Health Crises Part III. Technology, Science, and Crisis 10. The Multiple Crises of a Nuclear Era 11. Balancing the Optimism and Risks of Civilian Nuclear Energy 12. Hazardous Waste 13. Industrial Accidents and Determining Liability: Bhopal 14. Oil, Conclusion: Toward New Institutional Frameworks for Mitigating Risks and Potential Crises ...
