Crisis, Disaster and Risk

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.

This book explores the interactions of theories of risk with natural disasters, health crises, and crises in the areas of science and technology.

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