Social impact of disasters books

Since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, economic and political trends have opened avenues for radiation...  Read More >>

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This volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made...  Read More >>

In developed countries, the pervasive view of floods is that science and technology have largely brought these unpredictable...  Read More >>

This proceedings volume emphasizes the link between climate change and natural hazards such as droughts, flooding,...  Read More >>

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In this historical geography of the British colonies of Barbados and the Windwards, Bonham C. Richardson describes...  Read More >>

Little effort has been made to research the nonagricultural or economywide macroneconomic impact of droughts in...  Read More >>

Provides an overview of what is known about natural hazards, disasters, recovery, and mitigation, how research findings...  Read More >>

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The Roadmakers left only ruins behind -- but what magnificent ruins! Their concrete highways still cross the continent....  Read More >>

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This book examines emerging concerns about the export of trauma experts and counsellors to war-torn areas of the...  Read More >>

This book examines emerging concerns about the export of trauma experts and counsellors to war-torn areas of the...  Read More >>

""Social Suffering"" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease and torture, problems that...  Read More >>

This book evolved from a collaborative research project between the University of Manitoba, Canada and Jahangirnagar...  Read More >>

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For many decades federal emergency and disaster policy and management has been an important but one of the least...  Read More >>

Globalisation is creating a new politics of poverty: this book analyses the political and economic agenda behind...  Read More >>

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Adopting an integrated approach to natural hazards that incorporates facets of both the physical and social sciences,...  Read More >>

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