Social impact of disasters books

Part of a project dealing, at the level of local production, with the long-term and ongoing food crisis in Africa....  Read More >>

In a format of presentation, critique, and commentary, disaster researchers and sociological theorists address basic...  Read More >>

The contributions in this book were presented, orally or as posters, at the International Volcanological Congress...  Read More >>

In this original and timely work, David Arnold draws upon the history of Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe,...  Read More >>

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

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

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

Some urgent new thinking is needed if any lessons are to be learnt from the recent disasters. This book brings together...  Read More >>

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Suitable for those interested in Africa, this first edition focuses on the problems of drought and famine in Africa....  Read More >>

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

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This book is the product of research and policy development activity at the Middlesex Polytechnic Flood Hazard Research...  Read More >>

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Seven million people in the ""breadbasket of Europe"" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command....  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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