Search results for “[Subject: disaster]”

• Author(s): Oecd • Publisher: OECD • Publisher Imprint: OECD • BISAC: American Government - GeneralThis report provides an overview of countries' efforts to improve the quality and quantity of information on the costs of disasters.

• 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): 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): 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...

• Author(s): Andrew Morris • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyThe story of how Hurricane Camille, which struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 196...

• 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): 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): 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): McNabb David E. • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralIn this book David E. McNabb and Carl R. Swenson blend their different experienc...

• 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): 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): Vanessa Pupavac | Mladen Pupavac • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: World - EuropeanThis book provides an exploration of European disaster and developmen...

• 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): David E. Newton • Publisher: ABC-CLIO • Publisher Imprint: ABC-CLIO • BISAC: Natural DisastersThis book provides a detailed introduction to natural disasters and the ways in which they have had and continue to have, profound effects ...

• 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): Someshwar Das • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural Disasters

• Author(s): Shigenori Matsui • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Asia - JapanOn the 11th of March 2011, an earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter scale (the most powerful to ever strike Japan) hit the Toh...

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

• 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): Graham Dwyer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book examines the ways in which emergency management organizations make sense and learn from natural d...

• Author(s): E. Willard Miller • Publisher: ABC-CLIO • Publisher Imprint: ABC-CLIO • BISAC: Natural DisastersA thorough overview of the phenomenon of flooding, including frequency, damage, and information about organizations that help flood victi...

• 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): Nicole Curato • Publisher: Oxford Univ PR • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDemocracy in a Time of Misery: From Spectacular Tragedy to Deliberative Action investigates how democratic politi...

• Author(s): Bharat Dahiya • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Natural Disasters

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

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

• 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 ...