Search results for “[Subject: disaster]”

• Author(s): Asperen Hanneke van | Lotte Jensen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralDisasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through...

• Author(s): Joan Deppa | Maria Russell | Dona Hayes • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Death & DyingFirst published in 1993, The Media and Disasters looks behind the key scenes in the drama unfolding in the afterm...

• Author(s): Brooke Fisher Liu | Amisha M. Mehta • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of core concepts, research, and practice in risk, crisis and...

• Author(s): Jc Gaillard • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThe text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated w...

• Author(s): Sara Bernardo • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Poverty & HomelessnessThis book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in Afr...

• Author(s): John R. K. Robson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefIn Famine (1981), a collection of essays by experts from the developing world and advanced agricultural societies, the au...

• Author(s): E. L. Quarantelli • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAre conflict situations such as the ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia or Rwanda, terrorist attacks and riots, the same kind of social cris...

• Author(s): Mark Franko • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsRitual today can be encountered in the midst of catastrophic and transforming events. This collection reassesses and revises tradition...

• Author(s): Jane Schneider | Ida Susser • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanAlthough the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is...

• Author(s): Levy Jason K. | Chennat Gopalakrishnan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyThis book constitutes a landmark attempt to address, comprehensively and in-depth, a policy-focused approach to the ...

• Author(s): Robert Geal • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film & VideoThis book applies ecolinguistics and psychoanalysis to explore how films fictionalising environmental disasters provide spectacular warnings a...

• Author(s): Anthony Elliott | Eric Hsu • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralDisasters of the 21st century differ substantially from other kinds of hazards that previous societies have had to cope with...

• Author(s): Ovanes Akopyan | David Rosenthal • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - GeneralHow did early modern societies think about disasters, such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster, and...

• Author(s): Juliana Svistova | Loretta Pyles • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefNatural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and...

• Author(s): Susan L. Cutter | Melanie Gall | Claire B. Rubin • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefUpdated to include the latest research in the hazards and disasters field, U.S. Emergency ...

• Author(s): G. Jan Van Apeldoorn • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: World - AfricanOriginally published in 1981, this book provided the first concise and integrated account of the Nigerian crisis and uncovered the bas...

• Author(s): Ben Wisner • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: ScienceIn Understanding and Addressing Disaster Risk, the authors explain how people modify the environment and exert powe...

• Author(s): Martha Wolfenstein • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis is Volume II out of eighteen on a series of the Sociology of Behaviour and Psychology. Originally published in 1957, this study...

• Author(s): Greg Bankoff | Dorothea Hilhorst | George Frerks • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefRaging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million pe...

• Author(s): Salvatore Palidda • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CriminologyThis book explores changes in security governance in Europe from the 1990s, focusing on some of the most important consequences: the prolifer...

• Author(s): Pradeep Kumar Parida • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Natural DisastersThis volume explores the complex relationships between hazard, vulnerability and disaster for steering the challenges posed by disas...

• Author(s): Keith Smith • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThe seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-t...

• Author(s): Anand a. Pandya | Craig L. Katz • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Psychotherapy - GroupIn a series of poignant first-person narratives, psychiatrists capture the challence and promise of disaster psychiat...

• Author(s): R. Geipel | Philip Wagner • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyOriginally published in 1982 and based on empirical research into the aftermath of the Friuli earthquake in Italy, the...

• Author(s): Mark Pelling • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWhen disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vuln...

• Author(s): Andrew E. Collins • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentDevelopment to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disast...

• Author(s): Karen-Margrethe Simonsen | Jonas Ross Kjaergard • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: RhetoricWhat does it mean to be a subject of human rights? The status of the subject is closely connected with the form an...

• Author(s): Joseph Zornado | Sara Reilly • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - GeneralSurveying disaster films from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective, this book explores the disaster film genre from its initia...

• Author(s): Mark Pelling • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyThe number of humanitarian disasters triggered by a natural hazard has doubled every decade since the 1960s. At the same time, the global econ...

• Author(s): Kasia Mika • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of disaster, vulnerabi...

• Author(s): John Feather | Graham Matthews • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralDisaster planning might not seem a pressing concern - until disaster strikes. Recent events have...

• Author(s): Peter E. Hodgkinson | Michael Stewart • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social PsychologyA completely updated and revised edition of this practical handbook for people who provide psychosocial aftercare f...

• Author(s): Helen Boon | Alison Cottrell | David King • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Sustainable DevelopmentThe interconnectedness of communities, organisations, governing bodies, policy and individu...

• Author(s): Yuka Kaneko | Katsumi Matsuoka | Toshihisa Toyoda • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThis book is a critical analysis of several of the most disaster-prone regio...

• Author(s): David Sanderson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeAt a time of escalating urban disasters and sharply reduced aid budgets, humanitarian aid, long held in need of reform, has no choice but to rese...

• Author(s): Catarina Kinnvall | Helle Rydstrom • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis book focuses on the challenges of living with climate disasters, in addition to the existing gender ineq...