Search results for “[Subject: disaster]”

• Author(s): John Wood • Publisher: BookLife Publishing • Publisher Imprint: BookLife Publishing

• Author(s): Michelle Ann Miller • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis edited book approaches the threat and impact of environmental disasters on Asia's urban populations from a govern...

• Author(s): Misanya Doreen • Publisher: VDM Verlag • Publisher Imprint: VDM Verlag • BISAC: GeneralAll over the world, disasters are known to destroy developments which have taken years to achieve in a short time. The effects of these disasters ...

• Author(s): Nina Dobrinkova • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book presents topics that are challenging fields that scientific world is trying to address as much as it can...

• Author(s): Industrial College of the Armed Forces • Publisher: Wildside Press • Publisher Imprint: Wildside Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefThe Industrial College of the Armed Forces was established to prepare selected officers of...

• Author(s): Nilamadhab Kar | Sujita Kumar Kar | S. M. Yasir Arafat • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Clinical Psychology

• Author(s): Chandan Ghosh • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021). It e...

• Author(s): Chandan Ghosh • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021). It e...

• Author(s): Nerma Omicevic • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverThis book provides the first extensive examination and analysis of the use of the urbanscape during the disaster pr...

• Author(s): Robert Emmet Hernan • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralOver the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through t...

• Author(s): Natasha Lindstaedt • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis timely new textbook lays bare the ways in which disease and disaster can turn politicians into global ...

• 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): Edward Payson Roe • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: GeneralThe Earth Trembled is a historical account of the devastating earthquake that struck San Francisco on April 18, 1906. Writt...

• Author(s): Sakiko Kanbara • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book presents the evolution of the science technology paradigm in Japan and analyzes the critical community and loca...

• Author(s): Elder • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: Small Business - GeneralAbout the Book Protect your company's finances in the event of a disaster In the face of an environmental or man-made...

• Author(s): George Haddow • Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann • Publisher Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann • BISAC: Security (National & International)Disaster Communications in a Changing Media World, Third Edition provides valuable informatio...

• Author(s): Heike Egner • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefIt is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastroph...

• Author(s): Laurence Roulleau-Berger | Yoshiyuki Yama • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe global ecological crisis is increasingly manifesting itself in different regions of the world, here in East Asia ...

• Author(s): Arnaud Mignan • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Focusing on the physics of the catastrophe process and addressed...

• Author(s): Industrial College of the Armed Forces • Publisher: Wildside Press • Publisher Imprint: Wildside Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefThe Industrial College of the Armed Forces was established to prepare selected officers of...

• Author(s): Nirupama Agrawal • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThese chapters provide valuable and comprehensive information on a variety of hazards, including both scientific and so...

• Author(s): U S Environmental Protection Agency • Publisher: Bibliogov • Publisher Imprint: Bibliogov • BISAC: GeneralThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is cha...

• Author(s): Ann-Margaret Esnard • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningDisplacement has traditionally been conceptualized as a phenomenon that results from conflict or other disrupt...

• Author(s): Victoria Chames • Publisher: Darkhorse Press U.S. • Publisher Imprint: Darkhorse Press U.S. • BISAC: GeneralIn the first minutes and hours of mass-casualty emergency such as earthquake, explosion, or terrorist attack, large numbers o...

• Author(s): Isabel Furió Álvarez • Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Our Knowledge Publishing • BISAC: Administration - GeneralIn an era marked by climate change, floods, fires, droughts and extreme phenomena, schools cann...

• Author(s): S. Revet • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareBased on extensive ethnographic and historical research conducted in diverse field locations, this volume of...

• Author(s): Zhen Yu • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: MachineryFrom the Back CoverThis open access book addresses the current technical problems of low efficiency of emergency site information collection, lack of flexi...

• Author(s): Jean Max Charles • Publisher: University of the West Indies Press • Publisher Imprint: University of the West Indies Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefThe Catastrophe of Disaster Aid critically examines both theeffectiven...

• Author(s): Arnold Lawson | Magic Studios • Publisher: Maple Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Maple Publishers • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Predatory cats, dancing cats; bizarre but failed methods to control ...

• Author(s): Yasuhide Okuyama • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThis volume is dedicated to the memory of Barclay G. Jones, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Regional Science at Cornell Univ...

• Author(s): Liu Mingxin • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThe articles in the volume contribute to a relatively new domain of scholarly research - the eco...

• Author(s): Daniel A. Vallero • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening curr...

• Author(s): Nathan Sommer • Publisher: Ursa Books • Publisher Imprint: Ursa Books • BISAC: Science & Nature - Environmental Science & EcosystemsFrom catastrophic oil spills to toxic pollution that caused mysterious illnesses, eco-disaste...

• Author(s): Kjell Brataas • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralManaging the Human Dimension of Disasters provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis on how individuals cope with tragedy and...

• Author(s): Julie Framingham • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • BISAC: Psychiatry - GeneralDisasters can cause long-term disruptions to the routines of individuals and communities, placing survivors at risk of dev...