Search results for “[Subject: disaster]”

• Author(s): Jamie Watters • Publisher: Apress • Publisher Imprint: Apress • BISAC: Information ManagementYou're in charge of IT, facilities, or core operations for your organization when a hurricane or a fast-moving wildfire hits. What do you do...

• Author(s): JC Gaillard • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in dis...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralEssay from the year 2013 in the subject Sociology - Miscellaneous, course: Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management, language: English, abstr...

• Author(s): Adenrele Awotona • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyWe are witnessing an ever-increasing level and intensity of disasters from Ecuador to Ethiopia and beyond, devastati...

• Author(s): Miriam B. Kahn • Publisher: ALA Editions • Publisher Imprint: ALA Editions • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralFire, water, mold, construction problems, power outages - these unexpected mishaps can not only bring serv...

• Author(s): Anne-Marie De Grazia • Publisher: Metron Publications • Publisher Imprint: Metron Publications • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefThe first book on the Bhopal disaster, written on site a few weeks after the accident. "The people...

• Author(s): U. S. Government Printing Office (Gpo) • Publisher: Bibliogov • Publisher Imprint: Bibliogov • BISAC: GeneralThe United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the the U.S. federal govern...

• Author(s): Alessandra Cozzolino • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Nonprofit Organizations & Charities - GeneralFrom the Back CoverFollowing the recent dramatic rise in both natural and man-made disasters, humanita...

• Author(s): Fulvio Attina • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDisaster policies present a new challenge to the practitioners and students of global politics; this book explains ...

• Author(s): U S Dept of State • Publisher: Bibliogov • Publisher Imprint: Bibliogov • BISAC: GeneralThe United States Department of State is the US equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries. The Department was crated in 1789 and wa...

• Author(s): Carmen Cowick • Publisher: Libraries Unlimited • Publisher Imprint: Libraries Unlimited • BISAC: Library & Information Science - Administration & ManagementEvery library needs to have a disaster management plan in place befor...

• Author(s): Louise K. Comfort • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralEarthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten po...

• Author(s): Oscar Webber • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Caribbean & West Indies - GeneralThis book investigates both short- and long-term responses to disaster in the Britis...

• Author(s): Robert Hurst • Publisher: Authorhouse • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefWhy write a book about leadership in times of crisis? Because it is needed. Disaster and large-scale incidents are growing...

• Author(s): Bharat Dahiya • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural Disasters

• Author(s): Susan Sterett • Publisher: Quid Pro LLC • Publisher Imprint: Quid Pro LLC • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefLegal governance of disaster brings both care and punishment to the upending of daily life of place-based disasters. Na...

• Author(s): Andrew Milsten | John Broach • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Emergency MedicineBring life to your curriculum with this comprehensive, yet versatile book that explores c...

• Author(s): Rajendra Kumar Pandey • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGETexts • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralA comprehensive and contextual text that examines the manifold strategies of ...

• Author(s): Stanislaw Kowalkowski | Danuta Kaźmierczak | Salvin Paul • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Human Geography

• Author(s): Drolet Julie L. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefAbout the Book Social workers are increasingly engaged in supporting individuals and c...

• Author(s): Zhores Medvedev • Publisher: W.W. Norton & Comp. • Publisher Imprint: WW Norton • Subject: Engineering • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThe story of the explosion and contamination was and still is suppressed in the Soviet Union a...

• Author(s): Shahriar Sajib | Asif Noor • Publisher: Igi Global Scientific Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Igi Global Scientific Publishing • BISAC: Natural Disasters

• Author(s): U. S. Government Accountability Office ( • Publisher: Bibliogov • Publisher Imprint: Bibliogov • BISAC: GeneralThe U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Con...

• Author(s): Taylor Prescott • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Aviation - HistoryAVIATION DISASTER CHRONICLES BOOK 2 When Safety Is Optional: How Negligence Kills PassengersAviation's deadl...

• Author(s): Jonathan Prewitt • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Strategic Planning

• Author(s): Phillip Drake • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralNamed after Lapindo Brantas, a gas exploration company that was drilling at the eruption site, the Lapindo...

• Author(s): U. S. Government Printing Office (Gpo) • Publisher: Bibliogov • Publisher Imprint: Bibliogov • BISAC: GeneralThe United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the U.S. federal government...

• Author(s): Td Kendrick • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: Western Europe - GeneralThe Lisbon Earthquake is a gripping account of one of the deadliest natural disasters in European history. Drawing...

• Author(s): Riyanti Djalante • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)From the Back CoverThis book is a unique, transdisciplinary summary of the state of the art of di...

• Author(s): Thomas Fisher • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Industrial Health & SafetyRecent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prin...

• Author(s): James Thompson • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAbout the Book As the world is challenged by a state of constant conflict...

• Author(s): United States Government Accountability • Publisher: Bibliogov • Publisher Imprint: Bibliogov • BISAC: GeneralThe BiblioGov Project is an effort to expand awareness of the public documents and records of the U.S. Government via print...

• Author(s): Kate Brown • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyWhile many transnational histories of the nuclear arms race have been written, Kate Brown pro...

• Author(s): Bárbara Montoro • Publisher: Practical Action Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Practical Action Publishing • BISAC: Developing & Emerging CountriesThis revised manual is an important resource for all involved in humanitarian disas...

• Author(s): Martin F. Grace • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Insurance - Casualty1. THE PROBLEM OF CATASTROPHE RISK The risk of large losses from natural disasters in the U.S. has significantly increased in recent yea...