Social impact of disasters books

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The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster

The Social Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster

Author: David R. Marples ,  Victor G. Snell
ISBN: 9780333481981
Format: Paperback
$145.17

A personal interpretation of the impact of the Chernobyl disaster both in the Soviet Union and the West, examining...  Read More >>

Famine

Famine

Author: G. A. Harrison
ISBN: 9780198576624
Format: Hardback
$110.00

With contributions from researchers in the fields of disaster relief, economics, ecology and human nutrition, this...  Read More >>

Global Climatic Catastrophes

Global Climatic Catastrophes

Author: Michael I. Budyko ,  V.G. Yanuta
ISBN: 9783540186472
Format: Paperback
$105.47

The necessity of eliminating the possibility of a large-scale nuclear conflict from the future of mankind is the...  Read More >>

American Philanthropy Abroad

American Philanthropy Abroad

Author: Merle Curti
ISBN: 9780887387111
Format: Hardback
$375.19

This book tells for the first time, in rich detail, and without apologetics, what Americans have done, in the voluntary...  Read More >>

Preventing Famine: Policies and prospects for Africa

Preventing Famine: Policies and prospects for Africa...

Author: Donald Curtis ,  Michael Hubbard
ISBN: 9780415007122
Format: Paperback
$46.99

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Africa in Crisis: The Causes and Cures of Environmental Bankruptcy

Africa in Crisis: The Causes and Cures of Environmental...

Author: Lloyd Timberlake
ISBN: 9781853830136
Format: Paperback
$52.99

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Food Aid Projections for the Decade of the 1990s

Food Aid Projections for the Decade of the 1990s

Author: Science & Tec National Research Council ,  National Research Board on Science and Technology for International Development
ISBN: 9781280246555
Format: Electronic book text
$52.80

This book presents the results of a meeting held by the Board on Science and Technology for International Development....  Read More >>

Revolution From the Heart

Revolution From the Heart

Author: Niall O'Brien (, Missionary Priest, Society of St. Columban)
ISBN: 9780195049503
Format: Hardback
$236.00

This memoir offers a vision of religion as an integral force for political and social change. Father Niall O'Brien...  Read More >>

Food Aid: The Challenge and the Opportunity

Food Aid: The Challenge and the Opportunity

Author: Hans Singer (Professorial Fellow, Professorial Fellow, IDS, Sussex University) ,  John Wood (Visiting Fellow, Visiting Fellow, IDS)
ISBN: 9780198285182
Format: Paperback
$89.95

Food aid has played a key role in responding to the extreme poverty and disasters afflicting millions of people...  Read More >>

Food Aid

Food Aid

Author: H. W. Singer ,  John Wood
ISBN: 9780198285199
Format: Hardback
$125.00

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Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Hibakusha: Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Author: Gaynor Sekimori ,  Professor George Marshall
ISBN: 9784333012046
Format: Paperback
$31.55

This book's 25 firsthand accounts by hibakusha-survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in early...  Read More >>

Famine in Peasant Societies

Famine in Peasant Societies

Author: Ronald E. Seavoy
ISBN: 9780313251306
Format: Hardback
$141.95

In this controversial study, Seavoy offers a new approach to the problem of periodic peacetime famine based on the...  Read More >>

Recovering From Catastrophes: Federal Disaster Relief Policy and Politics

Recovering From Catastrophes: Federal Disaster Relief...

Author: Peter May
ISBN: 9780313246982
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book examines the evolution of federal disaster relief policy, assesses problems with current policy, and provides...  Read More >>

The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe

The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval...

Author: Robert Steven Gottfried
ISBN: 9780029123706
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Depicts the spread of the epidemic of the black death throughout Europe, and examines the disease's impact on the...  Read More >>

Selective Feeding Programmes

Selective Feeding Programmes

Author: Tim Lusty ,  Pat Diskett
ISBN: 9780855980979
Format: Paperback
$33.51

A comprehensive manual for use in treating different degrees of malnutrition in emergency situations, this book...  Read More >>

Advances in Risk Analysis: Issues, Methods, and Case Studies

Advances in Risk Analysis: Issues, Methods, and Case...

Author: Ray A. Waller
ISBN: 9780306417252
Format: Hardback
$597.96

In recent years public attention has focused on an array of low-probability/high-consequence (LC/HC) events that...  Read More >>

Disaster Management: Warning Response and Community Relocation

Disaster Management: Warning Response and Community...

Author: Alvin H. Mushkatel ,  Ronald Perry
ISBN: 9780899300788
Format: Hardback
$141.95

This book addresses two common problems encountered by emergency services personnel: the design and implementation...  Read More >>

Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation

Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation...

Author: Amartya Sen, FBA (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) ,  Amartya K. Sen
ISBN: 9780198284635
Format: Paperback
$110.95

This book focuses on the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular. The traditional analysis of...  Read More >>

Famine: Its Causes, Effects and Management

Famine: Its Causes, Effects and Management

Author: John R.K. Robson
ISBN: 9780677161808
Format: Hardback
$454.08

First Published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

How to Survive a Pandemic

How to Survive a Pandemic

Author: The National Museum
ISBN: 9781643543529
Format: Paperback
$68.64

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Take Out Hunger: Two Case Studies of Rural Development in Basutoland Volume 39

Take Out Hunger: Two Case Studies of Rural Development...

Author: S. Wallman
ISBN: 9781845204761
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Development schemes are common throughout the third world. Many fail, but the reasons for failure or success are...  Read More >>

Famine (Ireland): Correspondence Relating to the State of Union Workhouses in Ireland

Famine (Ireland): Correspondence Relating to the State...

Author: Great Britain
ISBN: 9780716501763
Format: Hardback
$316.80

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