Social impact of disasters books

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Reducing the Burden of Injury: Advancing Prevention and Treatment

Reducing the Burden of Injury: Advancing Prevention...
Author: Institute of Medicine , Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention ISBN: 9780309065665 Format: Paperback	$105.47
Describes the cost and magnitude of the injury problem in America and looks at the response by the public and private... Read More >>

The Economics of Famine

The Economics of Famine
Author: Jean Drèze ISBN: 9781858986890 Format: Hardback	$655.50
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Disasters and the Media: Managing crisis communications

Disasters and the Media: Managing crisis communications...
Author: Shirley Harrison ISBN: 9780333717851 Format: Hardback	$290.37
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Hillsborough - The Truth

Hillsborough - The Truth
Author: Professor Phil Scraton ISBN: 9781780576886 Format: Paperback	$35.00
Offers an account of the disaster in which 96 Liverpool FC fans - men, women and children - died, hundreds were... Read More >>

Famine

Famine
Author: Michael Drumm ISBN: 9781853904073 Format: Paperback	$23.63
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Understanding Vulnerability: South Asian perspectives

Understanding Vulnerability: South Asian perspectives...
Author: John Twigg , Mihir R. Bhatt ISBN: 9781853394553 Format: Paperback	$38.68
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Acceptability and Use of Cereal-Based Foods in Refugee Camps

Acceptability and Use of Cereal-Based Foods in Refugee...
Author: Catherine Mears , Helen Young ISBN: 9780855984021 Format: Paperback	$38.68
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Community, State, and Market on the North Atlantic Rim: Challenges to Modernity in the Fisheries

Community, State, and Market on the North Atlantic Rim:...
Author: Richard Apostle , Gene Barrett ISBN: 9781442614888 Format: Paperback	$89.99
This is a study of Northern Norway and Atlantic Canada. It examines the implications of common market integration,... Read More >>

Disaster Hits Home: New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery

Disaster Hits Home: New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery...
Author: Mary C. Comerio ISBN: 9780520207806 Format: Hardback	$95.95
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Tsunami!

Tsunami!
Author: Walter C. Dudley , Min Lee ISBN: 9780824819699 Format: Paperback	$63.33
This is a complete examination of the tsunami phenomenon in Hawaii. It includes eyewitness accounts of the 1946... Read More >>

Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy And Planning

Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy...
Author: David Godschalk , Timothy Beatley ISBN: 9781559636025 Format: Paperback	$152.00
An examination of natural hazard mitigation for planners, policymakers, students of planning and geography, and... Read More >>

Famine Diary

Famine Diary
Author: Brendan O Cathaoir ISBN: 9780716526551 Format: Hardback	$145.20
Based on a wide selection of resources, this record of the Great Famine provides a graphic picture of conditions... Read More >>

Natural Hazards

Natural Hazards
Author: David Chapman ISBN: 9780195508093 Format: Paperback	$39.95
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The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands: Restless Ribbons of Sand

The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands: Restless...
Author: Orrin H. Pilkey , William J. Neal ISBN: 9780822322245 Format: Paperback	$68.51
Replacing an earlier volume, this thoroughly new book provides a diverse guide to one of America's most popular... Read More >>

The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands: Restless Ribbons of Sand

The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands: Restless...
Author: Orrin H. Pilkey , William J. Neal ISBN: 9780822322085 Format: Hardback	$250.67
Replacing an earlier volume, this thoroughly new book provides a diverse guide to one of America's most popular... Read More >>

Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America

Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America...
Author: Mark Monmonier ISBN: 9780226534190 Format: Paperback	$67.95
Explains how maps can tell where to anticipate certain hazards, but also how maps can be misleading. The text considers... Read More >>

The Northridge Earthquake: Vulnerability and Disaster

The Northridge Earthquake: Vulnerability and Disaster...
Author: Robert Bolin , Lois Stanford ISBN: 9780415178976 Format: Hardback	$399.00
This book concentrates on the social aspects of disaster, focusing on the most expensive disaster to date in US... Read More >>

Preventive Measures: Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems

Preventive Measures: Building Risk Assessment and Crisis...
Author: John L. Davies , Adeel Ahmed ISBN: 9780847688739 Format: Hardback	$200.95
This volume of essays examines crisis early warning factors at different levels, in different settings, and judges... Read More >>

Preventive Measures: Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems

Preventive Measures: Building Risk Assessment and Crisis...
Author: John L. Davies , Adeel Ahmed ISBN: 9780847688746 Format: Paperback	$68.95
This volume of essays examines crisis early warning factors at different levels, in different settings, and judges... Read More >>

Assessing Requirements for Peacekeeping, Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief

Assessing Requirements for Peacekeeping, Humanitarian...
Author: Bruce R. Pirnie , Corazon M. Francisco ISBN: 9780833025944 Format: Paperback	$60.72
The purpose of the study is to assess requirements for peace operations, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief,... Read More >>

Paying the Price: The Status and Role of Insurance Against Natural Disasters in the United States

Paying the Price: The Status and Role of Insurance Against...
Author: Richard J. Roth, Sr. , Howard Kunreuther ISBN: 9780309063616 Format: Hardback	$126.59
Considers insurance coverage for low-probability, high-consequence events and how insurance programs can be used... Read More >>

Cooperating with Nature: Confronting Natural Hazards with Land-Use Planning for Sustainable Communities

Cooperating with Nature: Confronting Natural Hazards...
Author: A Joseph Henry Press book , Raymond J. Burby ISBN: 9780309063623 Format: Hardback	$131.87
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Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society, and Institutional Change Since the Great Leap Famine

Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society,...
Author: Dali L. Yang ISBN: 9780804734707 Format: Paperback	$79.07
Despite being the worst famine in human history, the Great Leap Famine has received scant scholarly attention. In... Read More >>

The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women's Eyes

The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women's Eyes...
Author: Elaine Enarson , Betty Morrow ISBN: 9780275961107 Format: Hardback	$199.00
Why are women so hard hit by disasters? This international collection offers a range of answers, moving readers... Read More >>

World Disasters Report 1998

World Disasters Report 1998
Author: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies ISBN: 9780198294566 Format: Paperback	$85.00
From the 175-nation International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the all-new World Disasters... Read More >>

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