Disaster Resilience and Normalization: Facing Facts (OPEN ACCESS)

Disaster Resilience and Normalization: Facing Facts

Author: Naomi Zack

Book description: Disaster Resilience and Normalization: Facing Facts explores the normative and factual dimensions of a Climate Change Paradigm, in a global scope. Apart from who is responsible and who should pay for mitigation, the facts of Rising Average Earth Temperatures and More Intense and Frequent Disasters must still be faced. That is so far voluntary for signatories to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and participants in the 2022 US Inflation Reduction Act––there is no world climate government and nested national and local governments have varyingly effective public policies.  Zack distinguishes between rising earth temperatures and their effects that scientists predict will worsen and continue for many years. Topics include: limits to resilience, obstacles to preparation, liability, practical responsibility, and disaster trauma.  The poor and vulnerable will suffer and die most, already evident in Africa, South Asia, and small island nations. But eventually, everyone will be affected.  Without united effective will to face climate change, not facing it becomes part of this disaster. This book provides needed assessment of our shared normative and factual realities of climate change.

eISBN: 978-630-6728-35-0

Publication year: 2025

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword and Acknowledgements
Introduction: Disaster Resilience and Normalization

PART I. Frameworks, Background and Chapter Overview
Chapter 1. The Paradigm Shift from Disaster Response to Resilience and Risk Reduction
Chapter 2. The Politics of the Paris Climate Agreement and the US Inflation Reduction Act
Chapter 3. Sustainable Development and Capabilities, Before and After Disaster
Chapter 4. Climate, Global Justice, and Governance

PART II. Mitigation, Preparation, and Chapter Overview
Chapter 5. Attribution, Moral Responsibility, and Sustainable Technology
Chapter 6. Practical Responsibility for Rising Average Earth Temperatures
Chapter 7. Obstacles to Disaster Preparation
Chapter 8. Psychic Well-Being

Conclusion. Disaster Epistemology
Glossary
Index

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Title

Disaster Resilience and Normalization: Facing Facts

Author

Naomi Zack

eISBN (online)

978-630-6728-35-0

Publication year

2025

Author short bio

Naomi Zack, PhD, Columbia University, is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Lehman College, CUNY and has taught at SUNY, Albany, and the University of Oregon. Her most recent book is Multiplicity, Belonging, and Free Speech in US Higher Education: Thriving through Current Crises (Rowman and Littlefield, 2024-5). Recent are: Intersectionality: A Philosophical Framework (Oxford University Press, Phi Beta Kappa Romanell lectures), Democracy: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2023); 2nd editions of Philosophy of Race, an Introduction (Palgrave, 2023) and Ethics for Disaster (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023); The American Tragedy of COVID-19: Social and Political Crises of 2020 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), Progressive Anonymity: From Identity Politics to Evidence-Based Government (Rowman & Littlefield 2020). Earlier books include: Reviving the Social Compact: Inclusive Citizenship in an Age of Extreme Politics (2018), her edited 51-essay Oxford Handbook on Philosophy and Race (2017) Still earlier books include: The Theory of Applicative Justice: An Empirical Pragmatic Approach to Correcting Racial Injustice (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016);  White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of US Police Racial Profiling and Homicide (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015); The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield, 2011/2015), Inclusive Feminism: A Third Wave Theory of Women’s Commonality (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), Philosophy of Science and Race (Routledge, 2002); Bachelors of Science: Seventeenth Century Identity, Then and Now (Temple University Press, 1996); Race; and Mixed Race (Temple University Press,1992).