Social impact of disasters books

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Environmental Justice in the New Millennium: Global Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity, and Human Rights

Environmental Justice in the New Millennium: Global...
Author: F. Steady ISBN: 9780230615847 Format: Hardback	$250.80
Environmental Justice is one of the most important human rights challenges today. It refers to inequitable environmental... Read More >>

Rebuilding After Disasters: From Emergency to Sustainability

Rebuilding After Disasters: From Emergency to Sustainability...
Author: Gonzalo Lizarralde (University of Montréal, Canada) , Cassidy Johnson (University College London, UK) ISBN: 9780415472548 Format: Hardback	$242.00
Rebuilding After Disasters emphasizes the role of the built environment in the re-establishment of lives and sustainable... Read More >>

Exam Prep: Technical Rescue–Trench And Structural Collapse

Exam Prep: Technical Rescue–Trench And Structural Collapse...
Author: IAFC , Dr. Ben A. Hirst (Performace Training Systems) ISBN: 9780763742188 Format: Paperback	$105.47
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Natural Disaster Analysis after Hurricane Katrina: Risk Assessment, Economic Impacts and Social Implications

Natural Disaster Analysis after Hurricane Katrina: Risk...
Author: Harry W, Richardson , Peter Gordon ISBN: 9781848447769 Format: Paperback	$155.80
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The Human Side of Disaster

The Human Side of Disaster
Author: Thomas E. Drabek (University of Denver, USA) ISBN: 9781439808641 Format: Hardback	$163.55
Based on years of research, this book scientifically evaluates human responses in the face of disasters in ways... Read More >>

Social Vulnerability to Disasters

Social Vulnerability to Disasters
Author: Deborah S.K. Thomas , Brenda D. Phillips ISBN: 9781420078565 Format: Hardback	$189.95
Examines how the characteristics of an event alone do not create the tragedies that unfurl. This book explores why... Read More >>

Lifespan Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Coping with Katrina, Rita, and Other Storms

Lifespan Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Coping with...
Author: Katie E. Cherry ISBN: 9781441903921 Format: Hardback	$184.67
This book analyzes the immediate and prolonged effects of major storms and catastrophic events on humans. Topics... Read More >>

The Use of Instructional Technology in Dealing with Disasters: How Universities Used IT During Hurricane Katrina

The Use of Instructional Technology in Dealing with...
Author: Brucetta McClue , Ashraf Esmail ISBN: 9780773438873 Format: Hardback	$263.87
Features a qualitative multiple case study that examines the problems of six colleges on the Gulf Coast of the United... Read More >>

The Social and Cultural Impact of Foot and Mouth Disease in the Uk in 2001: Experiences and Analyses

The Social and Cultural Impact of Foot and Mouth Disease...
Author: Martin Döring , Brigitte Nerlich ISBN: 9780719077005 Format: Hardback	$195.00
The 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic in the UK had a devastating and long-lasting impact on individuals and... Read More >>

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities...
Author: Rebecca Solnit ISBN: 9780670021079 Format: Hardback	$73.79
Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster, people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? Award-winning... Read More >>

Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape

Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape...
Author: DeMond Shondell Miller , Jason David Rivera ISBN: 9780739121474 Format: Paperback	$61.95
Miller and Rivera explore how the fundamental changes to the physical landscape after Hurricane Katrina set the... Read More >>

The Homeowner's Hurricane Handbook

The Homeowner's Hurricane Handbook
Author: Bob Stearns ISBN: 9781602396753 Format: Paperback	$22.99
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Disaster Preparedness

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Disaster Preparedness...
Author: Maurice A Ramirez , John Hedtke ISBN: 9781592578931 Format: Paperback	$39.47
Ready for anything. Both natural and man-made disasters seem to occur with greater frequency. While these disasters... Read More >>

Disaster Response

Disaster Response
Author: David Robson ISBN: 9781601520814 Format: Hardback	$73.79
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Organizational Cooperation in Crises

Organizational Cooperation in Crises
Author: Lina M. Svedin ISBN: 9780754677253 Format: Hardback	$336.00
Lina Svedin takes an interdisciplinary approach to present a systematic examination of organizational cooperation... Read More >>

Zeitoun

Zeitoun
Author: Dave Eggers ISBN: 9781934781630 Format: Hardback	$63.36
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Persuasive Prevention: Towards a Mechanism for Implementing Article 4(h) and R2p by the African Union

Persuasive Prevention: Towards a Mechanism for Implementing...
Author: Dan Kuwali ISBN: 9789171066503 Format: Undefined	$34.19
Dan Kuwali presents a fresh perspective to the challenge of international humanitarian interventionism in Africa... Read More >>

Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana

Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection...
Author: Craig E. Colten ISBN: 9781604732382 Format: Hardback	$105.60
The hurricane protection systems that failed New Orleans in 2005 were the product of four decades of engineering... Read More >>

Averting Global Extinction: Our Irrational Society as Therapy Patient

Averting Global Extinction: Our Irrational Society as...
Author: Louis S. Berger ISBN: 9780765706522 Format: Hardback	$105.95
Humanity's self-destructive failure to give global and human survival top priority is complex, puzzling, and irrational.... Read More >>

Disaster and Development

Disaster and Development
Author: Andrew E. Collins (Northumbria University, UK) ISBN: 9780415426671 Format: Hardback	$336.00
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Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster

Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster
Author: Stephen McGinty ISBN: 9780330471930 Format: Paperback	$34.19
The horrific true story of the world's worst offshore oil disaster Read More >>

Disaster and Development

Disaster and Development
Author: Andrew E. Collins (Northumbria University, UK) ISBN: 9780415426688 Format: Paperback	$96.99
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Applications of Social Network Analysis for Building Community Disaster Resilience: Workshop Summary

Applications of Social Network Analysis for Building...
Author: Board on Earth Sciences & Resources , Division on Earth and Life Studies ISBN: 9780309140942 Format: Paperback	$68.64
Social Network Analysis (SNA) is the identification of the relationships and attributes of members, key actors,... 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: Scott Kilman , Roger Thurow ISBN: 9781586485115 Format: Hardback	$73.79
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Development and Dispossession: The Crisis of Forced Displacement and Resettlement

Development and Dispossession: The Crisis of Forced...
Author: Anthony Oliver-Smith , George Button ISBN: 9781934691083 Format: Paperback	$92.27
More people were involuntarily displaced in the twentieth century than ever before, and not only by war and natural... Read More >>

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