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Ethics for Disaster: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy

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, 2023
ISBN: 9781538179666
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Overview

Ethics for Disaster shows how individual and government preparation and response to hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires, pandemics, and other disasters are ethical matters. Confronting the social inequalities revealed by these disasters, we must also acknowledge how the lack of preparation for climate change and pandemics has shifted these threats from modern, isolated disasters into constant contemporary risks.

This second edition presents four new chapters about disaster-as-risk from; climate change, the natural elements of earth, air, wind, and fire; the COVID-19 and other pandemics; and innocent victims and refugees. Now more than ever, we need good and just moral principles to guide us through the disruptive crises ahead––especially for minorities. Humanism and humanitarianism are vital. Zack combines moral philosophy, political theory, public policy, and environmental science to present new ways to think about changes in the world we all share.

Preface to the Second Edition and Acknowledgements

Preface to the Paperback Edition

Preface to the First Edition and Acknowledgements

Book Introduction and Overview of parts and chapters

Part I: Ethics

  1. Disaster Planning: Is Saving the Greatest Number Best?
  2. Lifeboat Ethics and Disaster: Should We Blow Up the Fat Man?
  3. Virtues for Disaster: Mitch Rapp and Ernest Shackleton

Part II: Politics

  1. The Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Art Spiegelman
  2. Public Policy: Snakes on a Plane, Fire in the Pentagon, and Disaster Rights
  3. The Disadvantaged and Disaster: Hurricane Katrina

Part III: The New Disaster-as-Risk World

  1. Climate Change: Understanding the basics, including economics.
  2. Earth, Air, Fire, and Water: The elements of disaster
  3. COVID-19 and Minorities: How the worse-off fare worst
  4. Innocent victims and refugees: Moral and Practical questions

Conclusion: A Code of Ethics for Disaster, its Implications, and the Global Water Crisis

Postscript to 2nd edition

Postscript to the 1st edition

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Index

About the Author

Naomi Zack’s work is distinguished by her careful and considered thought, with a keen eye for the ways that disadvantaged groups can become more vulnerable through disasters. Such dynamics were seen with devastating clarity during the pandemic. This revised and extended volume grapples with the fraught realities of COVID-19 and climate change, examining recent and predicted disasters in reference to the fundamental elements of earth, air, fire, and water. Zack is a sensitive, empathetic thinker with a strong sense for some of the most fundamental challenges we are collectively reckoning with. The new edition of Ethics for Disaster is an important contribution to a set of issues that will unfortunately continue to be central in the years to come.

Ethics for Disaster is an unmatched guidebook in homeland security and emergency management. With its practical framework and real-world examples, it challenges readers to consider their moral obligations during crises, providing invaluable insights into the ethics of preparedness and response. It’s an essential resource for anyone working in the field.

Naomi Zack is professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is author and editor of a dozen books, including White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide (2015); The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy (2011); Ethics for Disaster (2009).

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