Social impact of disasters books

Doherty provides information about training for mental health professionals and first responders who work with victims...  Read More >>

Shot on location, Fires of Kuwait takes viewers to the very center of the terrible Gulf War legacy. Firefighters...  Read More >>

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods...  Read More >>

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Racing the Storm addresses how racial stratification continues to be a factor in U.S. society and was exposed by...  Read More >>

Emotional first-person accounts tell of the destruction faced by one parish on August 29, 2005, and the days that...  Read More >>

Attention is given to conceptual issues dealing with the concept ""disaster"" and to methodological issues relating...  Read More >>

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The tsunami that hit Aceh on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, on 26 December 2004 was a natural disaster of historic...  Read More >>

These articles contribute to the five sections with the general themes: i) flood risk management practice, ii) flood...  Read More >>

This book is for typical American families, business travelers, corporate executive management personnel, emergency...  Read More >>

Reveals the vital role that calamity - and our abiding fascination with it - has played in the development of this...  Read More >>

Originally published in hardcover in 2006 by Times Books.  Read More >>

The efforts undertaken by civilian and military organizations in response to Hurricane Katrina were historically...  Read More >>

Cincinnati's Great Disasters explores catastrophes from 1905 to 1937, featuring floods, tornadoes, fires, explosions,...  Read More >>

Nutrition plays a key role in many areas of public health, such as pre-term delivery, cancer, obesity, diabetes,...  Read More >>

The epic story of the real victims of a perfect storm—overwhelmingly the poor—left behind in the aftermath of a...  Read More >>

One of the four operations commanders of the World Trade Center site chronicles its evolution from September 11,...  Read More >>

Comprehensive and balanced, City Adrift provides not only an assessment of what went wrong in the Big Easy during...  Read More >>

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To explore various religious explanations of the tragedies inflicted by nature, the author interviewed 43 prominent...  Read More >>

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