Social impact of disasters books

This work begins by defining the nature and extent of the malnutrition problem in Bolivia, its causes, and its occurrence....  Read More >>

Airmen Against The Sea is a study of how military personnel survived under emergency conditions in the sea. It is...  Read More >>

For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of...  Read More >>

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A downwinder is someone who lived in the radiation fallout pattern of the above ground Nevada Nuclear tests during...  Read More >>

Joan Vincent provides a micro-historical study and narrative ethnography of the Irish famine in County Fermanagh....  Read More >>

Current day terrorism is increasingly motivated by body count, and more often than not is religiously or ethnically...  Read More >>

According to author Frederick J. Lanceley, known as one of the world's foremost crisis negotiation authorities,...  Read More >>

This the 100th anniversary of one of worst man-made disasters of the 20th century. When the Iroquois Theatre opened...  Read More >>

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Fire Department City of New York honors the department's 137 years of dedicated service to the City of New York...  Read More >>

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For years the world was confident that science would protect it from devastating plagues. Then came the AIDS epidemic,...  Read More >>

A collection of 13 essays by leading historians and theologians, which objectively considers the background, causes...  Read More >>

This study explores the relationship between environment and culture in the contemporary Philippines, where natural...  Read More >>

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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 >>

The impact of the Irish Famine of 1845-1852 was unparalleled in both political and psychological terms. In this...  Read More >>

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

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

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