Social impact of disasters books

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Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America

Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America...

Author: Keith Wailoo ,  Keith Wailoo
ISBN: 9780813547749
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Highlights the power and continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy of hurricane...  Read More >>

Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty

Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in an Age of...

Author: Roger Thurow ,  Scott Kilman
ISBN: 9781586488185
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America

Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America...

Author: Keith Wailoo ,  Keith Wailoo
ISBN: 9780813547732
Format: Hardback
$190.08

Highlights the power and continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy of hurricane...  Read More >>

Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh

Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh...

Author: Winston Yu ,  Mozaharul Alam
ISBN: 9781849711302
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh. This book...  Read More >>

Inland Flood Hazards: Human, Riparian, and Aquatic Communities

Inland Flood Hazards: Human, Riparian, and Aquatic Communities...

Author: Ellen E. Wohl (Colorado State University)
ISBN: 9780511529412
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This edited 2000 volume presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary review of issues related to inland flood hazards....  Read More >>

Handbook to Practical Disaster Preparedness for the Family

Handbook to Practical Disaster Preparedness for the...

Author: Marites Bautista ,  Curtis Bradley
ISBN: 9781453678879
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Ninety-nine percent of the time the world spins like a top, the skies are clear, and your refrigerator is full of...  Read More >>

Survival: How Being Prepared Can Keep You and Your Family Safe

Survival: How Being Prepared Can Keep You and Your Family...

Author: Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré (U.S. Army, ret) ,  Ron Martz
ISBN: 9781416599012
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Synopsis coming soon.......  Read More >>

Disaster & Recovery Planning: A Guide for Facility Managers

Disaster & Recovery Planning: A Guide for Facility Managers...

Author: Joseph F Gustin (Consultant Lilburn Georgia USA)
ISBN: 9781439844670
Format: Hardback
$316.67

Newly revised and updated, the Fourth Edition of this bestselling resource addresses the complexities of disaster...  Read More >>

Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-And-Rescue Dog

Scent of the Missing: Love and Partnership with a Search-And-Rescue...

Author: Susannah Charleson
ISBN: 9781410428325
Format: Hardback
$87.09

Charleson shares the adventures with her search-and-rescue dog, a Golden Retriever named Puzzle, and chronicles...  Read More >>

Man and Society in Calamity

Man and Society in Calamity

Author: Pitirim A. Sorokin ,  Irving Louis Horowitz
ISBN: 9781412814492
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Calamities influence every moment of our existence. Like a demon, they cast their shadow upon every thought we think...  Read More >>

Race Place and Environmental Justice After Hurri

Race Place and Environmental Justice After Hurri

Author: Beverly Wright ,  Bullard Robert
ISBN: 9781458780010
Format: Paperback
$84.45

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near New Orleans leaving death and destruction across the Louisiana,...  Read More >>

Peace for Your Home: A Quick Guide to Emergency Preparedness

Peace for Your Home: A Quick Guide to Emergency Preparedness...

Author: Marie Reed
ISBN: 9780979034299
Format: Paperback
$20.99

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The Black Death

The Black Death

Author: Philip Ziegler
ISBN: 9780750932028
Format: Paperback
$62.99

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Zeitoun

Zeitoun

Author: Dave Eggers
ISBN: 9780307387943
Format: Paperback
$42.11

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Zeitoun

Zeitoun

Author: Dave Eggers
ISBN: 9781613831205
Format: Hardback
$70.22

When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun chose to stay through the storm to protect his house...  Read More >>

The Atlas of World Hunger

The Atlas of World Hunger

Author: Thomas J. Bassett ,  Alex Winter-Nelson
ISBN: 9780226039077
Format: Hardback
$79.95

President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be 'making sure that people are able to get enough to eat'....  Read More >>

Surviving Bhopal: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and Oral Testimonials of Women in the Wake of an Industrial Disaster

Surviving Bhopal: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and...

Author: S. Mukherjee
ISBN: 9780230608115
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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Disaster and the Politics of Intervention

Disaster and the Politics of Intervention

Author: Andrew Lakoff
ISBN: 9780231146975
Format: Paperback
$37.95

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Disaster and the Politics of Intervention

Disaster and the Politics of Intervention

Author: Andrew Lakoff
ISBN: 9780231146968
Format: Hardback
$124.95

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Even in Chaos: Education in Times of Emergency

Even in Chaos: Education in Times of Emergency

Author: Kevin M. Cahill ,  H. E. Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann
ISBN: 9780823231966
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Children have a fundamental right to education, and to the protection that schools uniquely provide in the chaos...  Read More >>

Being There When It Counts: The Proceedings of the 8th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference

Being There When It Counts: The Proceedings of the 8th...

Author: George W. Doherty
ISBN: 9781615990399
Format: Paperback
$73.79

"Will You Be There When it Counts? ""Being There When It Counts"" is what Disaster Mental Health Services (DMHS)...  Read More >>

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