THE DISASTER PROFITEERS: HOW NATURAL DISASTERS MAKE THE RICH RICHER AND THE POOR POORER(PREVIOUSLY TITLED HIDING BEHIND HURRICANES)

Book ID/图书代码： 06840015B81368

English Summary/英文概要： Natural disasters don’t matter for the reasons we think they do. They generally don’t kill a huge number of people. Most years more people kill themselves than are killed by Nature’s tantrums. And using standard measures like Gross Domestic Product (GDP) it is difficult to show that disasters significantly interrupt the economy.

It’s what happens after the disasters that really matters-when the media has lost interest and the last volunteer has handed out a final blanket, and people are left to repair their lives. What happens is a stark expression of how unjustly unequal our world has become. The elite make out well-whether they belong to an open market capitalist democracy or a closed authoritarian socialist state. In Myanmar-a country ruled by a xenophobic military junta-the generals and their cronies declared areas where rice farms were destroyed by Cyclone Nargis as blighted and simply took the land. In New Orleans the city was re-shaped and gentrified post Katrina, making it almost impossible for many of its poorest, mostly black citizens to return.

In The Disaster Profiteers, John Mutter argues that when no one is looking, disasters become a means by which the elite prosper at the expense of the poor. As the specter of increasingly frequent and destructive natural disasters looms in our future, this book will ignite an essential conversation about what we can do now to create a safer, more just world for us all.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 自然灾害越来越不受重视。它们通常不会杀死大量的人。近年来，相比于自然灾害，越来越多的人死于自己。另外，使用如国内生产总值（GDP）这样的标准衡量，难以显示灾难对经济中断的重要性。

当灾难真正发生后是什么情况——媒体已经失去了兴趣，最后的志愿奉献最后的毛毯，人们修复自己的生活。所发生的一切鲜明的展示了我们的世界变得多么的不公平不平等。精英则会很好的把握——无论他们是属于一个开放的市场资本主义民主或一个封闭的专制的社会主义国家。在由强硬的军政府统治的缅甸——将军和他们的亲信宣布水稻地区被纳尔吉斯风暴摧残了，然后粗暴、简单地拿走了土地。新奥尔良被卡特丽娜飓风重新塑造和改变后，使得许多贫穷的，大多是黑人公民难以返回。

在这本《灾难奸商》中，约翰认为当没人监督时，灾难成为精英以牺牲穷人为代价而让自己更成功的方式。随着越来越多频繁和破坏性的自然灾害阴森地逼近我们的未来，这本书将点燃关于我们现在可以做些什么来创造一个更安全、更属于我们的世界的重要谈话。(LNL)

Awards/获奖情况：从自然科学和社会科学角度出发的混合见解，《灾难奸商》对灾难如何加深不平等的知识领域做出了重要贡献。描述了世界各地扣人心弦的灾害，穆特展示了为什么危机余波往往比最初的震惊更重要。这是一个富有启发性的，令人不安的书。（埃里克•科里内伯格，《热浪：在芝加哥灾区的社检》的作者）

约翰说写了一本有见地的书，强调了比起自然事件，灾害更是社会现象。通过研究美国的桑迪和卡特丽娜飓风，缅甸的纳尔吉斯风暴以及海地和日本的地震，强调了灾难是如何被政治和经济利益操纵的。（霍华德•昆鲁斯，宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院的决策科学与公共政策的杰姆斯•G•迪南教授）

“The author examines the intersection of the tragic loss of life and livelihood with civic irresponsibility and personal/institutional venality, played out through ill-preparedness and opportunistic aftermaths of the event...A hackle-raising book about nature and human nature, venality and justice, and how disasters—before, during, and after—sharply mirror society.”--Kirkus, starred review

“Mutter’s book is accessible to all readers. His bridging of the two sciences lends an in-depth feeling to an important and timely issue.”--Library Journal

Blending insights from the natural and social sciences, Disaster Profiteers makes a major contribution to knowledge about how catastrophes deepen inequality. With gripping accounts from disasters around the world, Mutter shows why the aftermath of crises often matters more than the initial shock. This is an illuminating, unsettling book. (Eric Klinenberg, author of HEAT WAVE: A SOCIAL AUTOPSY OF DISASTER IN CHICAGO)

“Forget your assumptions about the true impact of natural disasters. John Mutter has written a riveting account of how natural disasters disproportionately affect poor and disenfranchised communities before, during and after the disaster hits..This is a must read for anyone interested in the true story of disaster response.” --Irwin Redlener, MD, Director, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Earth Institute at Columbia University

“Highly engaging...Mutter pushes hard to separate fact from perception, with special emphasis on the biases and inequalities that too often hit marginalized groups the hardest.” --John W. McArthur, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute

“An insightful book...Mutter highlights how disasters have been manipulated for political and financial gain via case studies ranging from Hurricane Katrina and Sandy in the United States to Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar and earthquakes in Haiti and Japan.” --Howard Kunreuther, James G. Dinan Professor of Decision Science and Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania

About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰•穆特：哥伦比亚大学的地球与环境科学系和国际与公共事务系的教授。他以前是地球研究所的副所长。穆特2007年是科学进步的美国协会的资深会员。他经常为OECD博客网站和地球杂志写作，并常上诸如美国有线电视新闻网和CBS的广播媒体等。他住在纽约市。

JOHN C. MUTTER is a professor at Columbia University with appointments in the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and in International and Public Affairs. He was previously deputy director of the Earth Institute. Mutter was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007. A contributor to the blog site OECD and to EARTH Magazine, Mutter has appeared on broadcast media including CNN and CBS. He lives in New York City.

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