Social impact of disasters books

 Read More >>

Based on interviews with survivors and rescue workers in the weeks and months that followed the hurricane strike,...  Read More >>

Members of FEMA's search and rescue units were some of the first emergency workers to respond at Ground Zero on...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

There are signs that very severe levels of contaminants were released into the New York atmosphere following the...  Read More >>

From the early years in French colonial Vietnam through the Vietnam War, from postwar ordeals of re-education camps,...  Read More >>

As the impacts of environmental disasters on populations and their economic activity increase, the assessment of...  Read More >>

This comprehensive guide to applying the livelihoods approach to the practice of disaster risk reduction - a direct...  Read More >>

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) assists states and localities overwhelmed by, or at risk from, disasters....  Read More >>

From the burning of Babylon in 538 BC to the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre in New York, this...  Read More >>

As interest in planning for emergencies and disasters burgeons, and educational and training programs proliferate,...  Read More >>

Heat waves in the United States kill more people during a typical year than all other natural disasters put together....  Read More >>

 Read More >>

 Read More >>

Footprints of early hominids preserved in volcanic ash demonstrate that human cultures have been interacting with...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines around the globe in the last third of the 19th century,...  Read More >>

This guide provides strong evidence that humanitarian assistance can considerably benefit a country ravaged by disaster...  Read More >>

Politicians and the media rarely miss the opportunity that hurricanes or extensive flooding provide to warn us of...  Read More >>

 Read More >>

Over 100 years after its landfall, the hurricane that struck Galveston Island on September 8, 1900, remains the...  Read More >>

In the ancient city of Bhopal, toxic gas escaped from an American pesticide plant, killing thousands. When the noxious...  Read More >>

This work provides a sustained analytical history of the Halifax Explosion, a defining event in the Canadian consciousness....  Read More >>

This book deals with famine demography. It tries to answer questions such as: To what extent did famines control...  Read More >>