Social impact of disasters books

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Natural Hazards

Natural Hazards
Author: David Chapman ISBN: 9780195535648 Format: Paperback	$26.95
This book explains the origins of the major natural hazards, how they affect human beings and what, if anything,... Read More >>

Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb and the Model Town of Pullman

Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: Great Chicago...
Author: Carl Smith ISBN: 9780226764160 Format: Hardback	$125.40
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Children of Atlantis

Children of Atlantis
Author: Zdenko Lešic ISBN: 9781858660417 Format: Paperback	$50.03
This book offers a snapshot of virtually a whole generation of young people on the threshold of their working lives,... Read More >>

Letters from Ireland During the Famine of 1847

Letters from Ireland During the Famine of 1847
Author: Alexander Sommerville , Keith Snell ISBN: 9780716525455 Format: Paperback	$51.48
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POVERTY, FAMINE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: The Selected Essays of Meghnad Desai, Volume II

POVERTY, FAMINE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: The Selected...
Author: Meghnad Desai ISBN: 9781852786908 Format: Hardback	$285.00
Issues discussed include econometric testing of the disguised unemployment hypothesis, theoretical and applied approaches... Read More >>

Building For Safety Compendium: An annotated bibliography and information directory for safe building programmes in disaster-prone areas

Building For Safety Compendium: An annotated bibliography...
Author: Andrew Clayton , Ian Davis ISBN: 9781853391811 Format: Paperback	$25.75
Compendium of key publications, organizations, information sources and funding agencies for building improvement... Read More >>

The Great Irish Famine

The Great Irish Famine
Author: Cathal Poirteir , Dr Sean Connolly ISBN: 9781856351119 Format: Paperback	$36.20
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Challenge of Famine: Recent Experience, Lessons Learned

Challenge of Famine: Recent Experience, Lessons Learned...
Author: JohnOsgood Field ISBN: 9781565490185 Format: Paperback	$27.95
Addresses famine within a developmental and political economy framework. Read More >>

Enriching Lives: Overcoming Vitamin and Mineral Malnutrition in Developing Countries

Enriching Lives: Overcoming Vitamin and Mineral Malnutrition...
Author: World Bank ISBN: 9780821329870 Format: Hardback	$34.95
Vitamin and mineral (micronutrient) deficiencies impose high economic costs on virtually every developing country.... Read More >>

Earthquake and Casualties

Earthquake and Casualties
Author: Bahram Hojabri ISBN: 9781585000937 Format: Paperback	$28.64
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Island Refuge: Britain and Refugees from the Third Reich 1933-1939

Island Refuge: Britain and Refugees from the Third Reich...
Author: A.J. Sherman ISBN: 9780714645735 Format: Paperback	$91.00
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Letters from Ireland During the Famine of 1847

Letters from Ireland During the Famine of 1847
Author: Alexander Somerville , Keith Snell ISBN: 9780716525301 Format: Hardback	$118.80
Alexander Somerville's unique account of the Irish famine was first published in 1852. However, as it was contained... Read More >>

Private Voluntary Organizations in Egypt: Islamic Development, Private Initiative and State Control

Private Voluntary Organizations in Egypt: Islamic Development,...
Author: Denis J. Sullivan , Affiliate in Research, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, USA) ISBN: 9780813012902 Format: Paperback	$158.27
The author examines the role of Islamic, Christian and secular private voluntary organizations in Egypt's socio-economic... Read More >>

Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk

Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk
Author: B.E. Tucker , Mustafa Özder Erdik ISBN: 9780792329145 Format: Hardback	$876.48
Urban seismic risk is growing worldwide and is, increasingly, a problem of developing countries. Unless urban seismic... Read More >>

Learning from Accidents

Learning from Accidents
Author: Trevor A. Kletz ISBN: 9780750619523 Format: Hardback	$145.07
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Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake

Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake
Author: National Research Council , Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences ISBN: 9780309050302 Format: Paperback	$118.67
Reviews research on the Loma Prieta quake and draws from it's practical lessons that can be applied to other earthquake-prone... Read More >>

Mount Rainier: Active Cascade Volcano

Mount Rainier: Active Cascade Volcano
Author: National Research Council , Division on Earth and Life Studies ISBN: 9780309050838 Format: Paperback	$84.48
Develops a research plan to study and monitor Mount Rainier, an active Cascade volcano located about 35 km southeast... Read More >>

Organizing, Role Enactment and Disaster: A Structural Theory

Organizing, Role Enactment and Disaster: A Structural...
Author: Jennifer T. Mooney , etc. ISBN: 9780874134681 Format: Hardback	$81.51
The authors construct a formal theory of organizing and role enactment during the emergency period of disaster.... Read More >>

Food and Population in a Northeast Thai Village

Food and Population in a Northeast Thai Village
Author: Hayao Fukui ISBN: 9780824815189 Format: Hardback	$132.00
""Food and Population in a Northeast Thai Village is a remarkably thorough baseline study of the interrelationship... Read More >>

Disaster Planning, Structural Assessment, Demolition and Recycling

Disaster Planning, Structural Assessment, Demolition...
Author: E.K. Lauritzen , C. de Pauw ISBN: 9780419191902 Format: Hardback	$957.37
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Complexity in Urban Crisis Management: Amsterdam's Response to the Bijlmer Air Disaster

Complexity in Urban Crisis Management: Amsterdam's Response...
Author: U. Rosenthal , et al ISBN: 9781873936344 Format: Paperback	$79.99
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The AIDS Pandemic: Social Perspectives

The AIDS Pandemic: Social Perspectives
Author: Yole G. Sills ISBN: 9780313286063 Format: Hardback	$140.00
This book provides an overview of the social, economic, and political impact of AIDS around the world. Special attention... Read More >>

Food and Population in a Northeast Thai Village

Food and Population in a Northeast Thai Village
Author: Hayao Fukui ISBN: 9780824815714 Format: Paperback	$84.48
""Food and Population in a Northeast Thai Village is a remarkably thorough baseline study of the interrelationship... Read More >>

The World Food Problem

The World Food Problem
Author: David Grigg ISBN: 9780631176336 Format: Paperback	$103.95
The only text not to focus exclusively on the Third World. Second edition of a clasic text, completely revised... Read More >>

Community Reconstruction After an Earthquake: Dialectical Sociology in Action

Community Reconstruction After an Earthquake: Dialectical...
Author: Ino Rossi ISBN: 9780275946029 Format: Hardback	$140.00
Rossi develops a theory of the roles of action (social actor) and structure (sociopolitical resources, cultural... Read More >>

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