{"product_id":"the-social-roots-of-risk-producing-disasters-promoting-resilience-9780804791397","title":"The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9\/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Social Roots of Risk\u003c\/i\u003e argues against the widespread notion that cataclysmic occurrences are singular events, driven by forces beyond our control. Instead, Kathleen Tierney contends that disasters of all types--be they natural, technological, or economic--are rooted in common social and institutional sources. Put another way, risks and disasters are produced by the social order itself--by governing bodies, organizations, and groups that push for economic growth, oppose risk-reducing regulation, and escape responsibility for tremendous losses when they occur. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsidering a wide range of historical and looming events--from a potential mega-earthquake in Tokyo that would cause devastation far greater than what we saw in 2011, to BP's accident history prior to the 2010 blowout--Tierney illustrates trends in our behavior, connecting what seem like one-off events to illuminate historical patterns.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLike risk, human resilience also emerges from the social order, and this book makes a powerful case that we already have a significant capacity to reduce the losses that disasters produce. A provocative rethinking of the way that we approach and remedy disasters, \u003ci\u003eThe Social Roots of Risk\u003c\/i\u003e leaves readers with a better understanding of how our own actions make us vulnerable to the next big crisis--and what we can do to prevent it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKathleen Tierney is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Director of its Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Stanford Business Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492080750866,"sku":"9780804791397","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c0885187-8dc5-4d16-9dee-fba320317329.jpg?v=1730570236","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-social-roots-of-risk-producing-disasters-promoting-resilience-9780804791397","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}