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• Author(s): David C. Alexander • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceAs a well balanced and fully illustrated introductory text, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the phys...

• Author(s): Susan W. Kieffer • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefIn 2011, there were fourteen natural calamities that each destroyed over a billion dolla...

• 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): Jacob A. C. Remes | Andy Horowitz • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press • BISAC: Human RightsThis book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster stud...

• Author(s): Anna Lukasiewicz • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Developing & Emerging CountriesFrom the Back CoverThis is an important, timely and provocative book! The authors explore the contested terrai...

• Author(s): Anna Lukasiewicz • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Developing & Emerging CountriesFrom the Back CoverThis is an important, timely and provocative book! The authors explore the contested terrai...

• Author(s): Alejandro Lopez-Carresi | Others • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefThere is a perennial gap between theory and practice, betw...

• Author(s): Alfred Scott • Publisher: Syrawood Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Syrawood Publishing House • BISAC: Natural DisastersThis book provides comprehensive insights into the field of natural disaster, its challenges and management....

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

• Author(s): Peijun Shi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis is the first English language book to systematically introduce basic theories, methods and applications of disaster risk...

• Author(s): Timothy H. Dixon • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeneralWhat does Japan's 2011 nuclear accident have in common with the 2005 flooding of New Orleans fr...

• Author(s): Samui Pijush • Publisher: ELSEVIER • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Seismology & VolcanismIntegrated Disaster Science and Management: Global Case Studies in Mitigation a...

• 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): 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): Andrew E. Collins • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyDevelopment to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scop...

• 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): Kathleen Tierney • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefDisasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not w...

• Author(s): K.S. Gulia • Publisher: Kalpaz Publications • Publisher Imprint: Kalpaz Publications • BISAC: Bisac.Soc040000The book deals with nature and human initiated disasters and role played by them in our life. Explains physical and human en...

• 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): Richard A. Posner • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefHow should we respond to events that, for a variety of psychological and cultural reasons, we...

• Author(s): Janki Andharia • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book covers several dimensions of disaster studies as an emerging discipline. It is the inaugural book in the seri...

• Author(s): Kenneth Berger • Publisher: Syrawood Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Syrawood Publishing House • BISAC: Natural DisastersAs the population and pollution is on the rise, it has disturbed the natural environment; this has led to ...

• Author(s): Janki Andharia • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book covers several dimensions of disaster studies as an emerging discipline. It is the inaugural book in the seri...

• Author(s): Yuval Neria | Sandro Galea | Fran H. Norris • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Mental HealthSince the attacks of September 11, 2001, disaster preparedness and response has...

• Author(s): K. S. Gulia • Publisher: Kalpaz Publications • Publisher Imprint: Kalpaz PublicationsThe book deals with nature and human initiated disasters and role played by them in our life. Explains physical and human environment through natura...

• Author(s): Yuval Neria | Sandro Galea | Fran H. Norris • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Mental HealthSince the attacks of September 11, 2001, disaster preparedness and response has...

• Author(s): Kristi L. Koenig | Carl H. Schultz • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Emergency MedicineAs societies become more complex and interconnected, the global risk for catastroph...

• Author(s): Robert J. Ursano | Carol S. Fullerton | Brian G. McCaughey • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Mental HealthCoping with disaster is an overwhelming and often baffling task ...

• Author(s): Prarthna Agarwal Goel • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Economics - TheoryFrom the Back CoverThis book is a machine-generated literature overview that explores the theoretical and empirical aspects of econo...

• Author(s): Shirley Harrison • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Management - GeneralCrisis management is of increasing importance to organisations. With the rise of single-issue pressure groups, the developmen...

• 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): K Bradley • Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc • BISAC: GeneralRequest a FREE 30-day online trial to this title at www.sagepub.com/freetrial! This encyclopedia covers response to disasters aro...

• 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): Pedro Basabe | Peter T. Bobrowsky | Tom Beer • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFew subjects have caught the attention of the entire world as much as those dealing with natural hazards. The ...

• Author(s): Peijun Shi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis is the first English language book to systematically introduce basic theories, methods and applications of disaster risk...

• 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 ...