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• Author(s): Sasha Rudenstine | Sandro Galea • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public HealthThe Causes and Behavioral Consequences of Disasters brings a public health perspective to the literature, reflecting the increa...

• Author(s): Gregory Button • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Left Coast Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefWhen disaster strikes, a ritual unfolds: a flood of experts, bureaucrats, and analysts rush to the scene; ...

• Author(s): Mohamed Gad-el-Hak • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyAbout the Book Extreme events - including climatic events, such a...

• Author(s): Hanneke Van Asperen • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press • Publisher Imprint: Amsterdam University Press • BISAC: GeneralDisasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been d...

• Author(s): J. Dickie • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - ItalyThere is no European society whose modern history has been more deeply marked by disasters, both natural and social, than has Italy's. Dis...

• Author(s): Natalie Rauscher | Welf Werner • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: American Government - GeneralChapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Governance.- Chapter 2. Disaster Made Manifest: The Federal Role in U.S. Natur...

• Author(s): Vito Tanzi • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis book revisits a distinction introduced in 1921 by economists Frank Knight and John May...

• Author(s): Steve Matthewman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryDisasters are part of the modern condition, a source of physical anxiety and existential angst, and they are increasing ...

• Author(s): Havidán Rodríguez • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis second edition of the Handbook reflects some of the foundational topics for disaster studies; current substanti...

• Author(s): Eric K. Noji • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryIllustrated with examples from recent research in the field, this book summarizes the most pertinent and usef...

• Author(s): Pradyumna P. Karan | Shanmugam P. Subbiah • Publisher: University Press of Kentucky • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Kentucky • BISAC: World - GeneralOn December 26, 2004, a massive tsunami triggered by an underwater earthqua...

• Author(s): Rajesh Arora | Preeti Arora • Publisher: CABI • Publisher Imprint: CABI • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Allied Health Services - Emergency Medical ServicesAbout the Book Disaster management is an increasingly important ...

• Author(s): John R. Vile • Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • Publisher Imprint: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • BISAC: Safety & Security - Survival & Emergency PreparednessRarely does a month go by without news reports of a major natural cata...

• Author(s): David E. McNabb • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralIn this book David E. McNabb and Carl R. Swenson blend their different experiences to outline the nature of the crises g...

• Author(s): Matthew Scott • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Human RightsClimate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention is concerned with refugee status determination (RSD) in t...

• Author(s): Gonzalo Lizarralde | Cassidy Johnson | Colin Davidson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefDisasters are not natural. Natural events such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, et...

• Author(s): Naim Kapucu • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Management - GeneralA wide range of natural hazards pose major risks to the lives and livelihoods of large populations around the world. Man-made d...

• Author(s): Chris C. Funk • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyEvery year, droughts, floods, and fires impact hundreds of millions of peopl...

• Author(s): Deny Hidayati | Yanu Endar Prasetyo | Jonatan Lassa • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Developing & Emerging Countries

• Author(s): Deborah S.K. Thomas • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationThe 2010 Haiti and Chili earthquakes, the 2010 BP oil spill in the ...

• Author(s): Pramod K. Nayar • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: ImperialismThis is a study of disasters – cyclones, earthquakes and famines – in British India, 1770-1934, through a r...

• Author(s): Kathleen Tierney • Publisher: Stanford Business Books • Publisher Imprint: Stanford Business Books • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Hait...

• Author(s): Information Reso Management Association • Publisher: Information Science Reference • Publisher Imprint: Information Science Reference • BISAC: Emergency Management

• Author(s): Jeffrey Schlegelmilch • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Natural DisastersAs human society continues to develop, we have increased the risk of large-scale disasters. From he...

• Author(s): Kyle Farmbry • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: M.E. Sharpe • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefThis book explores the interactions of theories of risk with natural disasters, health crises, and crises in the ...

• Author(s): Jane Anna Gordon | Lewis R. Gordon • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: SocialThis book offers a theory of disaster in modern and contemporary society and its...

• Author(s): Frederick L. Bates • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as ...

• Author(s): Paul Heyer • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Ships & Shipbuilding - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis is the first book to deal exclusively with the influence and meaning of what media historian Paul Heyer c...

• Author(s): David Keen • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralIn the late twentieth century, disasters seemed like distant happenings in countries far away from the prosperous West. But today they are ‘coming...

• Author(s): Pandey | Prem C. • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThe objective of this publication is to provide insight into advancing remo...

• Author(s): Jacquleen Joseph | Surinder Jaswal • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentThis book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected peo...

• Author(s): Sarah Boulter | Jean Palutikof | David John Karoly • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyThis volume presents eighteen case stud...

• Author(s): Tuhin Ghosh | Indrajit Pal • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaNatural disasters are more common now than they have been ever befor...

• Author(s): Stephen Flood • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyFrom the Back CoverThis excellent text recognises that efforts towards improving development outcomes must work ...

• Author(s): C. Michael Hall • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: International - GeneralThis book provides a comprehensive examination of the effects of a natural disaster on businesses and organisations, and...