Disasterology | Dr. Samantha Montano

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4.7 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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We are rewinding to a conversation with Dr. Samantha Montano all about disaster management, in response to our recent episode on the concept of disaster capitalism. We get into everything you’ve ever wanted to know about living with stronger hurricanes, tornados, heatwaves… and just how we can protect our communities. Dr. Montano and I discuss her interest in disaster recovery in New Orleans immediately following Hurricane Katrina and the Levee Failure. Samantha educates of the phases of Disaster Management (and what can go right or wrong in each one!), and gaps in our current legal and political systems when it comes to actively preparing for and mitigating events that are often incorrectly referred to as ‘natural disasters.’ We also dig deeper into the mismanagement of the covid catastrophe response. This episode was originally published December 2021 under the title "Disasters Aren't Natural: Managing Catastrophes + The Climate Crisis. Dr. Montano is an assistant professor of emergency management at Massachusetts Maritime Academy. She is the author of Disasterology: Dispatches from The Frontlines of The Climate Crisis published by Park Row. She earned her B.S. in Psychology from Loyola University New Orleans and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Emergency Management from North Dakota State University. Thanks to our sponsor today!! CarawayHome.com/ECO for 10% off Sign up for our biweekly newsletter here!! Sign up for our community spotlight here!! Let's connect - @ecochicpodcast on Instagram + @lauraediez on Tiktok. Email me at [email protected]. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.9	Hello, hello. Welcome back to Eco-Sheek. My name is Laura Diaz, and it is great to have you here today.
0:39.2	Today's episode is a conversation with Dr. Samantha Montana that was originally published on Eco Sheik in December of 2021.
0:47.2	I'm excited to rewind to this episode because we've got a lot of new listeners that may not have heard this.
0:53.3	And a couple of weeks ago,
0:54.8	I shared an episode called What Is Disaster Capitalism, which really spoke to the exploitation of
1:02.6	disasters, especially through the lens of recovery efforts, the aftermath of the tragic wildfires
1:09.7	in Hawaii earlier this summer, and again,
1:13.0	really examining the capitalism stepping in there, really exploitive real estate practices.
1:17.9	So if you're interested in that and haven't listened to that episode, it was about two weeks
1:20.9	ago.
1:21.2	Again, it's called What is Disaster Capitalism?
1:24.1	While that episode really seeks to explain the concept and introduce us to the idea of disaster
1:29.5	capitalism from kind of a high-level perspective, we do zoom in on a case study that is New
1:34.3	Orleans and the levy failure and the aftermath of that tragedy as well and how disaster
1:39.5	capitalism really showed up in that geography.
1:43.4	Now, I want to take it one step further because while
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