Social impact of disasters books

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Breaking the Chains: Collective action for social justice among the rural poor in Bangladesh

Breaking the Chains: Collective action for social justice...
Author: Bosse Kramsjo , Geoffrey D. Wood ISBN: 9781853390241 Format: Paperback	$33.51
Shows how the landless poor of Bangladesh have worked to determine their own future, independent of the existing... Read More >>

Food Scarcity and Famine: Assessment and response

Food Scarcity and Famine: Assessment and response
Author: Helen Young ISBN: 9780855981457 Format: Paperback	$68.51
This book provides a new approach to assessing and responding to situations of food scarcity and gives a comprehensive... Read More >>

Responding to Disaster: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals

Responding to Disaster: A Guide for Mental Health Professionals...
Author: Linda S. Austin, MD ISBN: 9780880484640 Format: Hardback	$108.11
This volume serves as a guide to organizing mental health services when disaster strikes a community. Through firsthand... Read More >>

Beyond Individualism: Reconstituting the Liberal Self

Beyond Individualism: Reconstituting the Liberal Self...
Author: Jack Crittenden (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University) ISBN: 9780195073300 Format: Hardback	$183.95
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Mt. Kembla Disaster

Mt. Kembla Disaster
Author: Stuart Piggin , Henry Lee ISBN: 9780195534191 Format: Hardback	$54.95
In July 1902 the Mount Kemble coal mine in New South Wales exploded, killing 96 men - an event that is still commemorated... Read More >>

The Challenges of Famine Relief: Emergency Operations in the Sudan

The Challenges of Famine Relief: Emergency Operations...
Author: Francis Mading Deng , Larry Minear ISBN: 9780815717928 Format: Hardback	$97.55
The objective of this work is to discuss the wide-ranging challenges of famine relief, including the context in... Read More >>

The Challenges of Famine Relief: Emergency Operations

The Challenges of Famine Relief: Emergency Operations...
Author: Francis M. Deng , Larry Minear ISBN: 9780815717911 Format: Paperback	$38.99
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Geohazards: Natural and man-made

Geohazards: Natural and man-made
Author: G. McCall , D. Laming ISBN: 9780412439308 Format: Paperback	$207.95
Stow Editor in Chief, Association of Geoscientists for International Development ( AGID) AGID is particularly pleased... Read More >>

Geohazards: Natural and Man-made

Geohazards: Natural and Man-made
Author: G. J. H. McCall , etc. ISBN: 9780412439209 Format: Hardback	$337.92
"Focusing on the practical problems of the assessment of geohazards in developing countries, their prediction and... Read More >>

Mortality and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mortality and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Etienne van de Walle , etc. ISBN: 9780198283720 Format: Hardback	$165.00
This volume examines the role played by custom, socio-economic variables, and access to health services, in providing... Read More >>

Care and Commitment: Taking the Personal Point of View

Care and Commitment: Taking the Personal Point of View...
Author: JeffreyJ. Blustein (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Mercy College) ISBN: 9780195067996 Format: Hardback	$152.85
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African Food Systems in Crisis: Political Economy of African Famine

African Food Systems in Crisis: Political Economy of...
Author: P.E. Downs , etc. ISBN: 9782881244773 Format: Paperback	$96.00
Explores the political and economic forces that influence levels of food supply. The book includes analyses of countries... Read More >>

African Food Systems in Crisis: Political Economy of African Famine

African Food Systems in Crisis: Political Economy of...
Author: P.E. Downs , etc. ISBN: 9782881244766 Format: Hardback	$256.00
Explores the political and economic forces that influence levels of food supply. The book includes analyses of countries... Read More >>

The Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake: Proceedings of a Forum

The Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake:...
Author: Committee on Earthquake Engineering , Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems ISBN: 9780309090131 Format: Paperback	$108.24
Presents the proceedings of an August 1990 forum held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. This... Read More >>

The Heavens Are Falling: The Scientific Prediction of Catastrophes in Our Time

The Heavens Are Falling: The Scientific Prediction of...
Author: Walter J. Karplus ISBN: 9780306441301 Format: Paperback	$145.17
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Power, Choice and Vulnerability: A Case Study in Disaster Mismanagement in South India

Power, Choice and Vulnerability: A Case Study in Disaster...
Author: Peter Winchester ISBN: 9781873936054 Format: Hardback	$83.99
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Hazard Management and Emergency Planning: Perspectives in Britain

Hazard Management and Emergency Planning: Perspectives...
Author: Dennis Parker , John Handmer ISBN: 9781873936061 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Disasters and the Small Dwelling: Perspectives for the UN IDNDR

Disasters and the Small Dwelling: Perspectives for the...
Author: Yasemin Aysan , Ian Davis ISBN: 9781873936078 Format: Hardback	$189.00
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To Cure All Hunger: Food policy and food security in Sudan

To Cure All Hunger: Food policy and food security in...
Author: Simon Maxwell ISBN: 9781853390876 Format: Paperback	$105.47
Few countries face as grim a prospect of food insecurity as the Sudan - bankrupt, at civil war, and ravaged by drought.... Read More >>

The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History, 1845-1852

The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History, 1845-1852...
Author: R. W. Dudley Edwards , T. Pugh Williams ISBN: 9780946640942 Format: Paperback	$105.47
Published in 1957 and long out of print, it was the first detailed modern study of the disaster. Read More >>

The Political Economy of Hunger: Political Economy of Hunger: Volume 3: Endemic Hunger

The Political Economy of Hunger: Political Economy of...
Author: Jean Drèze (, Delhi School of Economics) , Amartya Sen, FBA (Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge) ISBN: 9780198286370 Format: Hardback	$274.95
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Big Wind

Big Wind
Author: Peter Carr , Geoffrey Fulton ISBN: 9781870132503 Format: Paperback	$17.98
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Between Prison and Probation: Intermediate Punishments in a Rational Sentencing System

Between Prison and Probation: Intermediate Punishments...
Author: Morris, Lord of Manchester , Tonry ISBN: 9780195071382 Format: Paperback	$43.95
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Hurricane Hugo One Year Later: Proceedings of a Symposium and Public Forum Held in Charleston, South Carolina, September 13-15, 1990

Hurricane Hugo One Year Later: Proceedings of a Symposium...
Author: Benjamin Sell , Peter Sparks ISBN: 9780872627956 Format: Hardback	$104.79
Hurricane Hugo, which made landfall on September 21, 1989, was the first serious storm to cross the South Carolina... Read More >>

Demanding Democracy After Three Mile Island

Demanding Democracy After Three Mile Island
Author: Raymond L. Goldsteen , John K. Schorr ISBN: 9780813010984 Format: Paperback	$50.60
Based on unedited interviews conducted between 1979 and 1986, this work argues that the mistrust and anger that... Read More >>

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