Social impact of disasters books

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Disasters of Atlantic Canada: Stories of Courage & Chaos

Disasters of Atlantic Canada: Stories of Courage & Chaos...
Author: Vernon Oickle ISBN: 9781894864152 Format: Paperback	$38.79
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Floods in an Arid Continent

Floods in an Arid Continent
Author: Aldo Poiani (Faculty of Science, Technology and Engineering, La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia) ISBN: 9780123736307 Format: Hardback	$506.88
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The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters

The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to...
Author: Charles Perrow ISBN: 9780691129976 Format: Hardback	$79.07
Offers insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold way of thinking about disaster preparedness. This book... Read More >>

Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water

Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water
Author: Alan Snitow , Deborah Kaufman ISBN: 9780787984588 Format: Hardback	$51.95
Thirst shows how average citizens in communities across the U.S. are fighting multinational corporations and their... Read More >>

Natural Disaster Reduction: South East Asian Realities, Risk Perception and Global Strategies

Natural Disaster Reduction: South East Asian Realities,...
Author: Dilip Kumar Sinha ISBN: 9781843317043 Format: Hardback	$115.00
The purpose of this treatise is to bring the characteristics of the disastrous events of the region to the fore,... Read More >>

Notable Natural Disasters

Notable Natural Disasters
Author: Marlene Bradford , Robert S. Carmichael ISBN: 9781587653681 Format: Hardback	$572.88
Combines scientific concepts with narrative details about memorable disasters. This title focuses on events caused,... Read More >>

Disasters of Ontario: 75 Stories of Courage & Chaos

Disasters of Ontario: 75 Stories of Courage & Chaos...
Author: Rene Biberstein ISBN: 9781894864145 Format: Paperback	$38.79
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Extreme Hydrological Events: New Concepts for Security

Extreme Hydrological Events: New Concepts for Security...
Author: O.F. Vasiliev , P.H.A.J.M.van Gelder ISBN: 9781402057403 Format: Paperback	$287.76
This proceedings contains the papers which were presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Extreme... Read More >>

Titanic and the Californian

Titanic and the Californian
Author: Thomas B Williams , Rob Kamps ISBN: 9780752442785 Format: Paperback	$65.87
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Extreme Hydrological Events: New Concepts for Security

Extreme Hydrological Events: New Concepts for Security...
Author: O.F. Vasiliev , P.H.A.J.M.van Gelder ISBN: 9781402057397 Format: Hardback	$789.36
This proceedings contains the papers which were presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Extreme... Read More >>

Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Terrorism: Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Personnel

Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Terrorism:...
Author: Brian T Bennett ISBN: 9786610901067 Format: Electronic book text	$527.74
Preparedness is the best weapon against terrorism <p> Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Terrorism: Protecting... Read More >>

Communicable Crises: Prevention, Response, and Recovery in the Global Arena

Communicable Crises: Prevention, Response, and Recovery...
Author: Deborah E. Gibbons ISBN: 9781593116071 Format: Paperback	$121.41
This volume advances crisis management literature and our understanding of network governance, including temporary... Read More >>

Communicable Crises: Prevention, Response, and Recovery in the Global Arena

Communicable Crises: Prevention, Response, and Recovery...
Author: Deborah E. Gibbons ISBN: 9781593116088 Format: Hardback	$211.17
This volume advances crisis management literature and our understanding of network governance, including temporary... Read More >>

Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform

Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform
Author: Stephan Haggard , Marcus Noland ISBN: 9780231140003 Format: Hardback	$173.95
In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century.... Read More >>

Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters
Author: Patrick Leon Abbott ISBN: 9780071102186 Format: Paperback	$124.17
Focuses on natural disasters: how the normal processes of the Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows... Read More >>

International Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Occurrence, Mitigation, and Consequences

International Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Occurrence,...
Author: Joseph P. Stoltman , John Lidstone ISBN: 9781402028502 Format: Mixed media product	$630.96
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Nuclear Afternoon: True Stories of Atomic Disasters

Nuclear Afternoon: True Stories of Atomic Disasters...
Author: Clyde W. Burleson ISBN: 9781560259961 Format: Paperback	$42.11
A chilling chronicle of major nuclear incidents around the globe such as Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, spanning... Read More >>

The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation

The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation...
Author: Stephen Flynn , Dick Hill ISBN: 9798200143399 Format: Audio	$44.85
When it comes to catastrophe, America is living on borrowed time--and squandering it. In this eye-opening, vitally... Read More >>

The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation

The Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation...
Author: Stephen Flynn , Dick Hill ISBN: 9798200143382 Format: Audio	$44.85
When it comes to catastrophe, America is living on borrowed time--and squandering it. In this eye-opening, vitally... Read More >>

The Edge of Disaster Lib/E: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation

The Edge of Disaster Lib/E: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation...
Author: Stephen Flynn , Dick Hill ISBN: 9798200143375 Format: Audio	$44.85
Americans have been shocked in the past few years to discover how vulnerable our nation is to disaster, be it terrorist... Read More >>

Proceedings of the 5th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference

Proceedings of the 5th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster...
Author: George, W. Doherty ISBN: 9781932690378 Format: Paperback	$65.87
Recent years have seen an extraordinary number of major disasters, critical incidents and other events that have... Read More >>

Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions

Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects...
Author: Jelle Zeilinga de Boer , Donald Theodore Sanders ISBN: 9780691127866 Format: Paperback	$57.99
Tells the story of various epic earthquakes. This book explains the geological processes responsible for earthquakes,... Read More >>

Flood Alert! Norfolk 1953

Flood Alert! Norfolk 1953
Author: Neil R. Storey ISBN: 9780750932219 Format: Hardback	$33.61
On the night of 31 January 1953 the east coast of England was hit by howling winds, torrential rain and the most... Read More >>

Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster

Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color...
Author: Michael E Dyson ISBN: 9780977988358 Format: Audio	$131.87
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Community Emergency Radio Networks

Community Emergency Radio Networks
Author: Hugh, C. Maddocks ISBN: 9781601451453 Format: Paperback	$39.47
Maddocks offers ideas for building an emergency radio network based on small Family Radio Service radios or combined... Read More >>

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