Social impact of disasters books

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Unsafety: Disaster Management, Organizational Accidents, and Crisis Sciences for Sustainability

Unsafety: Disaster Management, Organizational Accidents,...

Author: Shigeo Atsuji
ISBN: 9784431559221
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern...  Read More >>

Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change: Keeping Our Heads above Water

Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change: Keeping Our Heads...

Author: Joseph Hanlon ,  Manoj Roy
ISBN: 9781783086337
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Severely threatened by climate change, Bangladesh is showing the world how to take an active role in adapting to...  Read More >>

Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change: Keeping Our Heads above Water

Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change: Keeping Our Heads...

Author: Joseph Hanlon ,  Manoj Roy
ISBN: 9781783086320
Format: Hardback
$115.00

Severely threatened by climate change, Bangladesh is showing the world how to take an active role in adapting to...  Read More >>

The Knox Mine Disaster, January 22, 1959: The Final Years of the Northern Anthracite Industry and the Effort to Rebuild a Regional Economy

The Knox Mine Disaster, January 22, 1959: The Final...

Author: Robert P. Wolensky (Katz Distinguished Professor, Univ. Wisconsin, Stevens Point) ,  Kenneth C. Wolensky
ISBN: 9780892710812
Format: Paperback
$38.99

The Knox Mine Disaster is much more than a history of an accident—or an industry, for that matter. Because the book...  Read More >>

Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder

Police State: How America's Cops Get Away with Murder...

Author: Gerry Spence
ISBN: 9781250106537
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Legal legend Gerry Spence puts America's Most Wanted - its own law enforcement officers - on trial for rampant abuse...  Read More >>

Speeding Into Action: The Influence of Paramilitary Culture on Disaster Response Organizations in the 2010 Haiti Earthquake

Speeding Into Action: The Influence of Paramilitary...

Author: Jeffrey D Stern Ph D
ISBN: 9781541240438
Format: Paperback
$15.81

Abstract: This dissertation examines the influence of paramilitary professional cultural attributes on the speed...  Read More >>

Into the Racing Sea: Great South African Rescues

Into the Racing Sea: Great South African Rescues

Author: Tony Weaver ,  Andrew Ingram
ISBN: 9781868427284
Format: Paperback
$55.44

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Leaded: The Poisoning of Idaho’s Silver Valley

Leaded: The Poisoning of Idaho’s Silver Valley

Author: Michael C. Mix
ISBN: 9780870718755
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Offers a timely and deeply researched account of one of the largest environmental disasters in western US history....  Read More >>

Legion Of Despair: Book Three in The Borrowed World Series

Legion Of Despair: Book Three in The Borrowed World...

Author: Franklin Horton
ISBN: 9798989160327
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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The Local Food Revolution: How Humanity Will Feed Itself in Uncertain Times

The Local Food Revolution: How Humanity Will Feed Itself...

Author: Michael Brownlee
ISBN: 9781623170004
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Michael Brownlee, cofounder of the nonprofit Local Food Shift Group, issues a call for a revolutionary movement...  Read More >>

Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath

Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving...

Author: Ted Koppel
ISBN: 9780553419986
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A New York Times bestselling dispatch from broadcast legend Ted Koppel- a major cyberattack on America's power grid...  Read More >>

Disaster Prevention Policies: A Challenging and Critical Outlook

Disaster Prevention Policies: A Challenging and Critical...

Author: Patrick Pigeon (Full Professor, Université de Savoie-Mont-Blanc, France) ,  Julien Rebotier (Full-time investigator, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))
ISBN: 9781785481963
Format: Hardback
$343.20

This book addresses disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies, focusing on reducing the paradox that exists between...  Read More >>

Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement

Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement

Author: Matthias Dietz (University of Bremen, Germany) ,  Heiko Garrelts (University of Bremen, Germany)
ISBN: 9781138232235
Format: Paperback
$120.00

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the growing transnational climate movement. A dual focus on climate...  Read More >>

Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the Apocalypse, 1400–1700

Disaster, Death and the Emotions in the Shadow of the...

Author: Jennifer Spinks ,  Charles Zika
ISBN: 9781137442703
Format: Hardback
$284.60

In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter...  Read More >>

Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America's Decade of Disaster

Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America's Decade...

Author: Timothy Recuber
ISBN: 9781439913703
Format: Paperback
$76.43

Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina,...  Read More >>

Beginner's Cow: Memories of a Volga German from Kansas

Beginner's Cow: Memories of a Volga German from Kansas...

Author: Loren Schmidtberger
ISBN: 9781612481685
Format: Paperback
$52.67

-Loren Schmidtberger grew up in a Volga German community in Kansas during the Dust Bowl. He carried the legacy and...  Read More >>

Subdivision Design and Flood Hazard Areas

Subdivision Design and Flood Hazard Areas

Author: James C Schwab
ISBN: 9781611901870
Format: Paperback
$126.72

A lot has changed since APA released its first PAS Report on Subdivision Design and Flood Hazard Areas in 1997....  Read More >>

The Other Side of the Coin: The Comparative Evidence of Cash and in-Kind Transfers in Humanitarian Situations

The Other Side of the Coin: The Comparative Evidence...

Author: Ugo Gentilini ,  World Bank
ISBN: 9781464809101
Format: Paperback
$79.07

People affected by humanitarian crises are in need of support, but what form of assistance is more suitable? Giving...  Read More >>

Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America's Decade of Disaster

Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America's Decade...

Author: Timothy Recuber
ISBN: 9781439913697
Format: Hardback
$236.28

Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina,...  Read More >>

1968 Farmington Mine Disaster

1968 Farmington Mine Disaster

Author: Bob Campione
ISBN: 9781540200747
Format: Hardback
$84.45

Coal in the United States was discovered in the 18th century by landowners and farmers on the slopes of the hillsides...  Read More >>

Citizen Survivor's Handbook

Citizen Survivor's Handbook

Author: Richard Denham ,  Steve Hart
ISBN: 9780995452176
Format: Paperback
$29.01

Includes a foreword by best-selling author Cody Lundin. The prepper's guide with a difference  Read More >>

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