Search results for “[Subject: disaster]”

• Author(s): R. Frey • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Emergency MedicineF.A. Bauhofer, Geneva In disaster situations, the particular concern of WHO is not so much to offer immediate relief and assistance for affected c...

• Author(s): Sydney Tyler | Ralph Stockman Tarr • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Earthquakes & VolcanoesSan Francisco's Great Disaster by Sydney Tyler is a detailed account of the catastroph...

• Author(s): Jeff Stanfill • Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Wipf & Stock Publishers • BISAC: Christian Ministry - PreachingAfter one's community has experienced an earthquake, a wildfire, a tsunami, a hurricane, a...

• Author(s): Shirley Feldmann-Jensen • Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann • Publisher Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann • BISAC: Natural DisastersCase Studies in Disaster Response, the latest release in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Stud...

• Author(s): V. Santiago-Fandiño • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis monograph focuses on a variety of topics related to reconstruction and restoration in post-tsunami conditions. ...

• Author(s): Jonathan Benthall • Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Sean Kingston Publishing • BISAC: JournalismWritten at a time when disasters both natural - drought, famine - and manmade - the war in Yugoslavia, civil str...

• Author(s): Charles Perrow • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefCharles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that m...

• Author(s): V. P. Singh • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - HydrologyThe General Assembly of the United Nations passed a resolution on December 11, 1987, designating the 1990s as the International Decade...

• Author(s): Ah Godbey • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: Social History"Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History" recounts a series of significant calamities that have befallen humanity throughout recorded...

• Author(s): Cynthia A. Kierner • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodWhen hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, w...

• Author(s): Saeid Eslamian • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. The series aims to fill in gaps in th...

• Author(s): H. Dan O'Hair • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Communication StudiesBroadcast media has a particular fascination with stories that involve risk and health crisis events--disease outbreaks, ter...

• Author(s): Ashutosh Mohanty • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThe Bay of Bengal is prone to tropical cyclones and storm surges as a result of its location, and many of the mostly po...

• Author(s): Prem C. Pandey | Rajesh Kumar | Manish Pandey • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural Disasters

• Author(s): R. Boardman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: World - GeneralScience and politics are closely connected in today's global environmental issues. This book focuses on these links in relation to clim...

• Author(s): Brian A. Shaer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Some periods of history contain so many compounded disasters they seem to be inspired by disaste...

• Author(s): National Wildfire Coordinating Group • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefThis Wildfire Prevention Guide is ...

• 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): Ben K. Blanchard • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: First AidDisaster Survival: How To Survive a Disaster - The practical Guide (Tornado,...

• Author(s): Richard Duarte • Publisher: Urban Survival Tech, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: Urban Survival Tech, Inc. • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefAre you ready for the next hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood...? Surviving a disaster re...

• Author(s): Dmitry Chernov • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public RelationsFrom the Back CoverThis book discusses the risks of information concealment in the context of major natural or industrial disasters - offerin...

• Author(s): J. North Conway • Publisher: Lyons Press • Publisher Imprint: Lyons Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,The SS Portland was a solid and luxurious ship, and its loss in 1898 in a violent stor...

• Author(s): Fabrice G. Renaud • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book is a compilation of recent developments in the field of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and climate ...

• Author(s): Reilly | Benjamin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: World - GeneralDisasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as presentin...

• Author(s): Peter Hall • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentIn this "pathology of planning," Peter Hall briskly recounts the...

• Author(s): Federica Ranghieri | Mikio Ishiwatari • Publisher: World Bank Publications • Publisher Imprint: World Bank Publications • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentWhile not all natural disasters can be avoided, the...

• Author(s): William B., Jr. Secrest • Publisher: Linden Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Linden Publishing • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MTIt was another time. Deadly earthquakes, steamboat explosions, flo...

• Author(s): Nathan Hale • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Science Fiction - Apocalyptic & Post-ApocalypticAfter their defeat in southern Kentuck...

• Author(s): Nikolaj Wolfson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: OrthopedicsFrom the Back CoverThis book is the first to address specifically the mechanisms and treatment of orthopedic injuries due to natural disasters an...

• Author(s): Roger E Kasperson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyA risk conundrum can be viewed as a risk that poses major issues in assessment, and whose management is n...

• Author(s): Saeid Eslamian • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. The series aims to fill in gaps in th...

• Author(s): United States Government Accountability • Publisher: Scholar's Choice • Publisher Imprint: Scholar's Choice • BISAC: General This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of ...

• Author(s): Zach Williams • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Safety & Security - Survival & Emergency PreparednessTwo books from the Beginner...

• Author(s): Kiyotaka Tsurisaki • Publisher: Creation Books • Publisher Imprint: Creation Books • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Portraits & SelfiesDEATHe is the first major retrospective of the work of Japanese photographer Tsurisaki Kiyota...

• Author(s): Gerrit Jasper Schenk • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverHistorical disaster research is still a young field. This book discusses the experiences different cultures, from...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - WestThe San Francisco Calamity By Earthquake And Fire recounts the devastating events that befell San Francisco in 1906. T...