Social impact of disasters books

Le Projet Sphere est une initiative visant a definir et a promouvoir les standards que la communaute mondiale doit...  Read More >>

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

El Proyecto Esfera es una iniciativa destinada a establecer y promover normas a las que se atiene la comunidad internacional...  Read More >>

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Combining original reporting with dramatic photographs and detailed illustrations, this title looks at the science...  Read More >>

Extreme Environmental Events is an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the basic tenets of...  Read More >>

Topics covered include: Disaster Analysis, Monitoring and Mitigation; Emergency Preparedness; Risk Mitigation; Surveillance...  Read More >>

An essential guide to disaster preparedness, including a step-by-step plan for being ready at a second's notice...  Read More >>

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Disasters are the result of complex interactions between social and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from...  Read More >>

Warning sirens are blaring. You have fifteen minutes to evacuate. What will you do? Cataclysmic events strike sleepy...  Read More >>

Warning sirens are blaring. You have fifteen minutes to evacuate. What will you do? Cataclysmic events strike sleepy...  Read More >>

Warning sirens are blaring. You have fifteen minutes to evacuate. What will you do? Cataclysmic events strike sleepy...  Read More >>

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

Author of the landmark study The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry offers a stunning and original analysis of the “claim...  Read More >>

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Presents 34 papers, arising from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) held in Yerevan, Armenia, in October...  Read More >>

The first book about the BP disaster on its one-year anniversary by a world-renowned oceanographer, ""A Sea in Flames""...  Read More >>

""U.S. power plants seek to diversify their fuel sources. Biomass energy is a renewable resource, generally with...  Read More >>

The construction industry is typically engaged in a range of critical activities after a disaster: providing temporary...  Read More >>

In 1798, the Rev. T. R. Malthus published his explosive thesis arguing that population had a natural tendency to...  Read More >>

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Emergency exercises address and reveal the significant gaps between plans and capabilities. They are an important...  Read More >>

Who will step up to meet the challenge of the next rural crisis? Rural practice presents important yet challenging...  Read More >>