Amanda Concha-Holmes is courtesy faculty in anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Florida and co-founder and co-director of the Innovative Research and Intercultural Education (I.R.I.E.) Center.Anthony Oliver –Smith is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Florida.

In this edited volume, Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith document the confounding elements of weather, climate, and a market-driven society as they wreak havoc on the sunshine state's complex ecosystems. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Florida or any of America’s other 49 states. What it portends affects us all.

• Chapter 1: Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability and Development in FloridaChapter 2: Eye on The Storm: Development & Disaster in The Sunshine State. Hurricane Opal. A Case StudyChapter 3: Twisted State: Patterns of Resilience and Vulnerability in the Osceola County, Florida 1998 TornadoesChapter 4: Disaster in Apalachicola: Storms, the Oyster Industry and Development DecisionsChapter 5: Drought, Unsustainable Water Practices and the Social Construction of Risk in Glades CountyChapter 6: Needed and Feared: The Unavoidable Vulnerability to Forest Fires in FloridaChapter 7: humaNature, Citrus and Disaster in North Central Florida: Frost in the Sunshine State.Chapter 8: Climate Change, Disasters and Development in Florida

Amanda Concha-Holmes is courtesy faculty in anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Florida and co-founder and co-director of the Innovative Research and Intercultural Education (I.R.I.E.) Center.Anthony Oliver –Smith is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Florida.

In this edited volume, Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith document the confounding elements of weather, climate, and a market-driven society as they wreak havoc on the sunshine state's complex ecosystems. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Florida or any of America’s other 49 states. What it portends affects us all.

• Chapter 1: Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability and Development in FloridaChapter 2: Eye on The Storm: Development & Disaster in The Sunshine State. Hurricane Opal. A Case StudyChapter 3: Twisted State: Patterns of Resilience and Vulnerability in the Osceola County, Florida 1998 TornadoesChapter 4: Disaster in Apalachicola: Storms, the Oyster Industry and Development DecisionsChapter 5: Drought, Unsustainable Water Practices and the Social Construction of Risk in Glades CountyChapter 6: Needed and Feared: The Unavoidable Vulnerability to Forest Fires in FloridaChapter 7: humaNature, Citrus and Disaster in North Central Florida: Frost in the Sunshine State.Chapter 8: Climate Change, Disasters and Development in Florida

Amanda Concha-Holmes is courtesy faculty in anthropology and Latin American studies at the University of Florida and co-founder and co-director of the Innovative Research and Intercultural Education (I.R.I.E.) Center.Anthony Oliver –Smith is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Florida.

In this edited volume, Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith document the confounding elements of weather, climate, and a market-driven society as they wreak havoc on the sunshine state's complex ecosystems. It is a must-read for anyone interested in Florida or any of America’s other 49 states. What it portends affects us all.

• Chapter 1: Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability and Development in FloridaChapter 2: Eye on The Storm: Development & Disaster in The Sunshine State. Hurricane Opal. A Case StudyChapter 3: Twisted State: Patterns of Resilience and Vulnerability in the Osceola County, Florida 1998 TornadoesChapter 4: Disaster in Apalachicola: Storms, the Oyster Industry and Development DecisionsChapter 5: Drought, Unsustainable Water Practices and the Social Construction of Risk in Glades CountyChapter 6: Needed and Feared: The Unavoidable Vulnerability to Forest Fires in FloridaChapter 7: humaNature, Citrus and Disaster in North Central Florida: Frost in the Sunshine State.Chapter 8: Climate Change, Disasters and Development in Florida