Social impact of disasters books

This book examines emerging concerns about the export of trauma experts and counsellors to war-torn areas of the...  Read More >>

This book evolved from a collaborative research project between the University of Manitoba, Canada and Jahangirnagar...  Read More >>

""Social Suffering"" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease and torture, problems that...  Read More >>

This volume explores the gendered and gendering effects of violence against women in the extreme situations of major...  Read More >>

For many decades federal emergency and disaster policy and management has been an important but one of the least...  Read More >>

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Adopting an integrated approach to natural hazards that incorporates facets of both the physical and social sciences,...  Read More >>

Analyzes the consequences of conflict and competition, especially associated with race, ethnicity and gender in...  Read More >>

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Explores theoretical and empirical dimensions of the intuitive perception that sudden and catastrophic events can...  Read More >>

This timely text enables the student to develop the skills for dealing with terrorism on many levels: preparing...  Read More >>

Disasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events - sudden calamities that cause both citizens and policymakers...  Read More >>

Designed as an introduction to emergency management, this book includes pieces on: social, political, and fiscal...  Read More >>

Foreign aid has undergone considerable changes over the years. Offering an introduction for various social science...  Read More >>

A comprehensive treatment of the uprising, its causes, and its aftermath, based on oral histories and archival research....  Read More >>

A comparative study of female representation in famine literature ranging from 19th century accounts of the Irish...  Read More >>

A comparative study of female representation in famine literature ranging from 19th century accounts of the Irish...  Read More >>

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Explore how Berar, a major nineteenth-century cotton center, became enmeshed with the forces of colonial rule and...  Read More >>

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Debilitating food shortages and tragic famines have been among the major problems facing many Sub-Saharan countries...  Read More >>

Explaining the essential political character of hunger, Young exposes popular myths and identifies positive changes...  Read More >>

Compiled from stories in the city's daily newspapers, this text gives an account of the great cyclone at St. Louis...  Read More >>