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Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common Ground Collective

Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy, and the Common...
Author: Scott Crow ISBN: 9781306061056 Format: Electronic book text	$42.24
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No One Had a Tongue to Speak: The Untold Story of One of History's Deadliest Floods

No One Had a Tongue to Speak: The Untold Story of One...
Author: Utpal Sandesara , Tom Wooten ISBN: 9781306928137 Format: Electronic book text	$31.65
Offers a researched examination of the little-known, but devastating Machhu Dam disaster in India. On August 11,... Read More >>

Disasters of the Northwest: Stories of Courage & Chaos

Disasters of the Northwest: Stories of Courage & Chaos...
Author: Greg Oberst , Lisa Wojna ISBN: 9781926677545 Format: Paperback	$50.03
Disasters both natural and accidental have marked the Northwest. More than just curiosities, these stories chronicle... Read More >>

Disaster Culture: Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Wake of Human and Environmental Catastrophe

Disaster Culture: Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Wake...
Author: Gregory Button ISBN: 9781598743883 Format: Hardback	$347.00
Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states,... Read More >>

In Deep Water: The Anatomy of Disaster, the Fate of the Gulf, and How to End Our Oil Addiction

In Deep Water: The Anatomy of Disaster, the Fate of...
Author: Peter Lehner , Bob Deans ISBN: 9781441773678 Format: Mixed media product	$158.37
Deepwater Horizon was supposed to be the cutting edge of energy exploration: drilling five thousand feet below the... Read More >>

Post-Disaster Reconstruction of the Built Environment

Post-Disaster Reconstruction of the Built Environment...
Author: Dilanthi Amaratunga (University of Salford) , Richard Haigh (University of Salford) ISBN: 9781283178266 Format: Electronic book text	$308.85
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The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector: And Other Black Holes of Risk

The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector: And Other Black...
Author: William Leiss (University of Ottawa, CANADA) ISBN: 9781280691461 Format: Undefined	$31.65
In the past two years, the world has experienced how unsound economic practices can disrupt global economic and... Read More >>

Emergency Management and Tactical Response Operations

Emergency Management and Tactical Response Operations...
Author: Thomas D Phelan ISBN: 9781281325433 Format: Electronic book text	$221.60
Is emergency management education undoing an age-old tradition in the American Fire Service? Has the time arrived... Read More >>

Next Catastrophe

Next Catastrophe
Author: Professor Charles Perrow ISBN: 9781283533430 Format: Electronic book text	$65.87
Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected... Read More >>

Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management

Four Stages of Highly Effective Crisis Management
Author: Jane Jordan-Meier (Jane Jordan & Associates, Green Valley, California, USA) ISBN: 9781283279581 Format: Undefined	$182.03
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Survive the Bomb: The Radioactive Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Survival

Survive the Bomb: The Radioactive Citizen's Guide to...
Author: Eric G Swedin ISBN: 9781299932357 Format: Electronic book text	$44.88
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Other Famine

Other Famine
Author: Gerard Macatasney ISBN: 9781322580715 Format: Electronic book text	$38.46
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Crucible of Fire

Crucible of Fire
Author: Bruce Hensler ISBN: 9781336030688 Format: Electronic book text	$72.60
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A is for Armageddon: A Catalogue of Disasters That May Culminate in the End of the World as We Know It

A is for Armageddon: A Catalogue of Disasters That May...
Author: Richard Horne ISBN: 9780062005939 Format: Paperback	$52.77
A stunningly illustrated, entertaining, and informative catalog of disasters that may culminate in the end of the... Read More >>

Agrarian Crisis and Farmer Suicides

Agrarian Crisis and Farmer Suicides
Author: R S Deshpande , Saroj Arora ISBN: 9788132105121 Format: Hardback	$113.39
This volume is the twelfth in the series ′Land Reforms in India′. The essays in this volume bring out the multi-dimensional... Read More >>

Democracy and Famine

Democracy and Famine
Author: Olivier Rubin (Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen, Denmark) ISBN: 9780415598224 Format: Hardback	$315.00
Inspired by the work of Amartya Sen, whose influential hypothesis that democratic institutions together with a free... Read More >>

Flood Warning, Forecasting and Emergency Response

Flood Warning, Forecasting and Emergency Response
Author: Kevin Sene ISBN: 9783642096655 Format: Paperback	$551.76
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive summary of various topics in flood warning, forecasting and emergency... Read More >>

A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines of Humanity

A Billion Lives: An Eyewitness Report from the Frontlines...
Author: Jan Egeland ISBN: 9781416561385 Format: Paperback	$47.49
One of the bravest and most dashing figures on the world scene, Egeland has spent his whole life in the world's... Read More >>

The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector: And Other Black Holes of Risk

The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector: And Other Black...
Author: William Leiss ISBN: 9780776607382 Format: Paperback	$44.99
Reveals an underlying paradox of risk management: the better we become at assessing risks, the more we feel comfortable... Read More >>

Flood Risk Management in Europe: Innovation in Policy and Practice

Flood Risk Management in Europe: Innovation in Policy...
Author: Selina Begum , Marcel J.F. Stive ISBN: 9789048170692 Format: Paperback	$211.07
These articles contribute to the five sections with the general themes: i) flood risk management practice, ii) flood... Read More >>

Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach

Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach
Author: Kathleen Fearn-Banks ISBN: 9780415880589 Format: Hardback	$316.80
Presents case studies of organizational and individual problems that may become crises, and the communication responses... Read More >>

Disaster on the Horizon: High Stake, High Risks, and the Story Behind the Deepwater Well Blowout

Disaster on the Horizon: High Stake, High Risks, and...
Author: Bob Cavnar ISBN: 9781603583169 Format: Paperback	$39.47
Disaster on the Horizon is a behind-the-scenes investigative look at the worst oil well accident in US history,... Read More >>

Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach

Crisis Communications: A Casebook Approach
Author: Kathleen Fearn-Banks ISBN: 9780415880596 Format: Paperback	$171.47
Presents case studies of organizational and individual problems that may become crises, and the communication responses... Read More >>

Effective Crisis Communication: Moving From Crisis to Opportunity

Effective Crisis Communication: Moving From Crisis to...
Author: Robert R. Ulmer , Timothy L. Sellnow ISBN: 9781412980333 Format: Hardback	$234.83
Revised and updated edition of this popular introduction to both the theory and practice of effective crisis management.... Read More >>

Modeling Spatial and Economic Impacts of Disasters

Modeling Spatial and Economic Impacts of Disasters
Author: Yasuhide Okuyama , Stephanie E. Chang ISBN: 9783642059858 Format: Paperback	$498.96
In 1993, Barclay organized the first of a series of sessions on ""Measuring Regional Economic Effects of Unscheduled... Read More >>

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