Social impact of disasters books

The natural workings of the Earth often lead to immense human suffering. Is this suffering inevitable? In this book...  Read More >>

This report summarizes findings from a conference intended to generate a national policy agenda for better engaging...  Read More >>

Natural disasters—including hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and floods—caused more than 220,000 deaths...  Read More >>

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From the Japanese tsunami and the Egyptian revolution to the Haitian earthquake and the Australian floods, social...  Read More >>

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

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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 >>

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

For more than three decades, the women's movement and its scholars have exhaustively studied women's complex history,...  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 >>

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

Rarely a day goes by in Hawai’i without the media reporting on environmental issues stemming from public debate....  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 >>

Extreme floods cause enormous damage in floodplains, which levees cannot prevent. This book analyses why contemporary...  Read More >>

Racism, Colonialism, and Indigeneity in Canada: A Reader is a reader collecting the writings of Indigenous North...  Read More >>