Social impact of disasters books

A 192-page hardcover book about a Cajun couple from Breaux Bridge, La., who took their airboat into New Orleans...  Read More >>

This work emphasizes resilient policies, rather than rigid philosophy. Economic and environmental consequences of...  Read More >>

Offers guidance to policy makers seeking to design effective monitoring systems for disaster response management....  Read More >>

The earthquake that struck the Messina Straits on December 28, 1908, was Europe's most powerful catastrophe in modern...  Read More >>

The voices gathered in this book represent critical and personal responses to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath....  Read More >>

Response to Disaster combines the original research of author Henry W. Fischer with the literature used today to...  Read More >>

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive summary of various topics in flood warning, forecasting and emergency...  Read More >>

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However cruelly the rocks of Massachusetts's South Shore have treated storm-driven sailors, there can be no questioning...  Read More >>

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Tracing the history of seismology and the rise of the regulatory state and of environmental awareness, California...  Read More >>

During Hurricane Katrina and the ensuing aftermath of floods caused by failed levees, St. Bernard Parish suffered...  Read More >>

Compelling and dramatic insights into crucial moments inside the cockpit.  Read More >>

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Taking the approach that experience is the best teacher, Large Scale Incident Management is the first book of its...  Read More >>

Social inequality is widely recognized as an important cause of conflict and the social determinants of health in...  Read More >>

Whose Hunger? shows how the forms and ideas of modernity frame our understanding of famine and, consequently, shape...  Read More >>

Rev. Emeka Obiezu, OSA has attained a remarkable achievement in his book. Both academics and workers in the field...  Read More >>

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Rev. Emeka Obiezu, OSA has attained a remarkable achievement in his book. Both academics and workers in the field...  Read More >>

This book details natural disaster emergencies in many parts of the world, and examines the vulnerability of different...  Read More >>

This CD-ROM is a tool to help disaster management decision makers predict the magnitude of a disaster on a specific...  Read More >>

This book, the most comprehensive ever written on the Explosion, details the terrific devastation, the aftermath...  Read More >>

After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged much of the Louisiana coastline, the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana,...  Read More >>