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"In recent years, the number of presidential declarations of ""major disasters"" has skyrocketed. Such declarations... Read More >>
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This book addresses the long-overdue imbalance in disaster management: an over-emphasis on post-disaster assistance... Read More >>
Focusing on the disasters of the 1980s, this book examines how culture is reconstructed after disaster through victims'... Read More >>
Including a range of case studies covering the most drought-prone and most affected countries, the contributors... Read More >>
One hundred years after the hurricane of 1900 devastated Galveston, Texas, it remains the one of the most deadly... Read More >>
Alaska is like no other state and few countries; men experience greater risk in her arms. This one-of-a-kind anthology... Read More >>
Paris, Berlin, London, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Los Angelesthese define 'the city' in the world's consciousness.... Read More >>
Presents the findings of a two-year study to help develop new strategies to identify and reduce the costs of weather-related... Read More >>
An assessment of the moral, legal and political dilemmas and consequences of humanitarian assistance. Read More >>
Shared Risk is an unparalleled study of how communities at risk respond to major hazards. This book explores the... Read More >>
Galveston, Texas, 1900. Reports of a storm in the Gulf of Mexico are relayed to Isaac Cline, chief observer of the... Read More >>
An international team of experts offer an assessment of the moral, legal and political dilemmas and consequences... Read More >>
An applied climatology of North Atlantic hurricanes. It discusses the climatology of tropical cyclones in general... Read More >>
This study deals with complexity and uncertainty, focusing on methods that enable communities to cope with natural... Read More >>
Prior to disappearing in Chechnya in 1995, veteran relief worker Cuny completed this guide to understanding the... Read More >>