Social impact of disasters books

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Replacing an earlier volume, this thoroughly new book provides a diverse guide to one of America's most popular...  Read More >>

Replacing an earlier volume, this thoroughly new book provides a diverse guide to one of America's most popular...  Read More >>

Explains how maps can tell where to anticipate certain hazards, but also how maps can be misleading. The text considers...  Read More >>

This book concentrates on the social aspects of disaster, focusing on the most expensive disaster to date in US...  Read More >>

This volume of essays examines crisis early warning factors at different levels, in different settings, and judges...  Read More >>

This volume of essays examines crisis early warning factors at different levels, in different settings, and judges...  Read More >>

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Despite being the worst famine in human history, the Great Leap Famine has received scant scholarly attention. In...  Read More >>

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

Why are women so hard hit by disasters? This international collection offers a range of answers, moving readers...  Read More >>

A record of more than fifty hurricanes known to have struck the Tar Heel states from the days of the first European...  Read More >>

From the 175-nation International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the all-new World Disasters...  Read More >>

Examining the impact of crisis and the threat of negative publicity to corporate reputation, this book argues that...  Read More >>

Climatologist Iben Browning predicted that a major earthquake would hit mid-America in December 1990. This study...  Read More >>

Annals of the Famine in Ireland is an extraordinary narrative by an eye-witness who became an integral part of the...  Read More >>

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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 >>

Sets out the huge conceptual differences that exist concerning what a disaster is, and presents important implications...  Read More >>

Sets out the huge conceptual differences that exist concerning what a disaster is, and presents important implications...  Read More >>

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