Aid & relief programmes books

The Sphere Project is an initiative to determine and promote standards by which the global community responds to...  Read More >>

Managing Spontaneous Community Volunteers in Disasters: A Field Manual  Read More >>

The greatest engineering drama of modern time, this is the story of the men who risked their lives to plug the leaking...  Read More >>

The Magarini Settlement Project in Kenya is typical of many large Third World rural development projects of recent...  Read More >>

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How best to save the world-as saint or soldier? The answer for Eric Greitens is both, as evidenced by this moving...  Read More >>

Shows how the humanitarian aid industry, the media and warmongers the world over are locked in a cycle of mutual...  Read More >>

From the 19th-century abolitionist movement to today's NGOs, a critical account of humanitarianism in world politics....  Read More >>

Originally published: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2011.  Read More >>

The book resolves who actually sank the Titanic, what really happened in the crow's nest as the ice approached,...  Read More >>

On April 20, 2010, the half-billion-dollar floating oil rig Deepwater Horizon became a household name when it blew...  Read More >>

Focusing on three causes of disaster - natural, organizational, and deliberate - this title shows that our best...  Read More >>

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Provides a roadmap for federal, state, and local leaders who are developing plans to enhance community resilience...  Read More >>

Including 425 signed entries in a two-volume set presented in A-to-Z format, and drawing contributors from varied...  Read More >>

How leaders respond when technological successes create vulnerability and nature ceases to be motherly.  Read More >>

Reports on cutting-edge project management research and is academically a work that many practitioners - particularly...  Read More >>

"Parlare di Chernobyl, il disastro nucleare avvenuto il 26 aprile 1986, vuol dire parlare di passato, presente e...  Read More >>

On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well blew out, costing the lives of 11 men, and beginning a catastrophe that sank...  Read More >>

The Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management: How to Manage the Media in the Digital Age  Read More >>

ACTS World Relief founder David Canther shares how acts of kindness and meeting the needs of people can touch the...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates the GIS knowledge needed to effectively manage the provision of humanitarian assistance before,...  Read More >>