Social impact of disasters books

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Preparedness Peace: Austin Disaster Relief Network Participant Workbook

Preparedness Peace: Austin Disaster Relief Network Participant...

Author: Scott Mactiernan ,  Kynada Boland
ISBN: 9781468155075
Format: Paperback
$158.37

What is Preparedness Peace? This course will move you from KNOWING you need to be prepared to actually BEING prepared....  Read More >>

Are You Ready?: How to Prepare for an Earthquake

Are You Ready?: How to Prepare for an Earthquake

Author: Maggie Mooney
ISBN: 9781553658504
Format: Paperback
$29.99

""A four-week program to help you and your family survive""--Cover.  Read More >>

Rebuilding Local Communities in the Wake of Disaster: Social Recovery in Sri Lanka and India

Rebuilding Local Communities in the Wake of Disaster:...

Author: Martin Mulligan ,  Yaso Nadarajah
ISBN: 9780415501552
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book examines the sociological consequences of disaster relief and recovery and its impact on the communities...  Read More >>

Tennessee Tragedies: Natural, Technological, and Societal Disasters in the Volunteer State

Tennessee Tragedies: Natural, Technological, and Societal...

Author: Allen R Coggins
ISBN: 9786613528896
Format: Electronic book text
$101.38

<p>A one-of-a-kind reference book, Tennessee Tragedies examines a wide variety of disasters that have occurred...  Read More >>

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe 1958-62

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating...

Author: Frank Dikoetter ,  David Bauckham
ISBN: 9781407495750
Format: Audio
$66.03

Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country...  Read More >>

Department of Defense Support to Foreign Disaster Relief (Handbook for Jtf Commanders and Below)

Department of Defense Support to Foreign Disaster Relief...

Author: Office of the Assistant Secretary ,  Us Department of Defense
ISBN: 9781782660064
Format: Paperback
$51.62

Full color illustrations throughout. Provides a concept of operations and tactics, techniques, and procedures for...  Read More >>

Hunger and Health: World Hunger Series 2007

Hunger and Health: World Hunger Series 2007

Author: United Nations World Food Programme
ISBN: 9781281191120
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

Explores the multiple relationships between hunger and poor health, and shows how they affect the growth of individuals,...  Read More >>

Vulnerability of Cities, The: Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

Vulnerability of Cities, The: Natural Disasters and...

Author: Mark Pelling (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781280475634
Format: Electronic book text
$448.80

When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors...  Read More >>

Politics and Policies of Relief, Aid and Reconstruction, The: Contrasting Approaches to Disasters and Emergencies

Politics and Policies of Relief, Aid and Reconstruction,...

Author: Fulvio Attina
ISBN: 9781283737852
Format: Electronic book text
$250.80

Disaster policies present a new challenge to the practitioners and students of global politics; this book explains...  Read More >>

Sympathetic State

Sympathetic State

Author: Michele Landis Dauber
ISBN: 9781283733267
Format: Undefined
$198.00

Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR s relief and social security programs faced attacks...  Read More >>

Disaster Experts

Disaster Experts

Author: Scott Gabriel Knowles
ISBN: 9781283898553
Format: Undefined
$65.87

In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, many are asking what, if anything, can be done to prevent large-scale...  Read More >>

Doomsday Preppers Complete Survival Manual

Doomsday Preppers Complete Survival Manual

Author: Michael Sweeney
ISBN: 9781299565371
Format: Undefined
$76.30

This custom companion to the blockbuster National Geographic Channelseries Doomsday Preppers is filled with how-to...  Read More >>

We Shall Not Be Moved: Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina

We Shall Not Be Moved: Rebuilding Home in the Wake of...

Author: Tom Wooten
ISBN: 9781299562196
Format: Electronic book text
$68.51

As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization....  Read More >>

Marmalade and Machine Guns

Marmalade and Machine Guns

Author: Linda Cruse
ISBN: 9781306015981
Format: Electronic book text
$39.57

In 1996, Linda Cruse, a stressed-out single mom working in a job she hated, was driving alongthe highway in the...  Read More >>

Strategies for Achieving Food Security in Central Asia

Strategies for Achieving Food Security in Central Asia...

Author: Hami Alpas ,  Madeleine Smith
ISBN: 9789400725041
Format: Paperback
$237.47

However the vulnerabilities which need addressing are dictated by the individual country according to the food control...  Read More >>

Strategies for Achieving Food Security in Central Asia

Strategies for Achieving Food Security in Central Asia...

Author: Hami Alpas ,  Madeleine Smith
ISBN: 9789400725010
Format: Hardback
$498.96

However the vulnerabilities which need addressing are dictated by the individual country according to the food control...  Read More >>

Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster...

Author: Daniel P Aldrich
ISBN: 9781280994432
Format: Undefined
$118.80

Each year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the...  Read More >>

Reclaiming School in the Aftermath of Trauma: Advice Based on Experience

Reclaiming School in the Aftermath of Trauma: Advice...

Author: Carolyn Lunsford Mears
ISBN: 9781280583162
Format: Electronic book text
$264.00

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Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa

Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa

Author: Mark Pelling (King's College London, UK) ,  Mark Pelling (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781282100978
Format: Electronic book text
$264.00

Published with ProVention Consortium, UNDP and UN-Habitat 'This excellent book is essential reading for those concerned...  Read More >>

Politics of Disaster, The: Tracking the Impact of Hurricane Andrew

Politics of Disaster, The: Tracking the Impact of Hurricane...

Author: David K Twigg
ISBN: 9781299818323
Format: Electronic book text
$197.87

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