{"product_id":"the-social-roots-of-risk-producing-disasters-promoting-resilience-9780804772631","title":"The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kathleen Tierney\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stanford Business Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stanford Business Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Sociology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46488639930519,"sku":"9780804772631","price":17311.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780804772631.jpg?v=1766338881","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-social-roots-of-risk-producing-disasters-promoting-resilience-9780804772631","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}