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• 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): Thomas A. Birkland | Thomas A. Birkland • Publisher: Georgetown University Press • Publisher Imprint: Georgetown University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralDisasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events-sudden calamiti...

• Author(s): Gregory Button • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Left Coast Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefWhen disaster strikes, a ritual unfolds: a flood of experts, bureaucrats, and analysts rush to the scene; ...

• 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): Ilan Kelman • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Te...

• 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): 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): Gregory Button • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Left Coast Press • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefWhen disaster strikes, a ritual unfolds: a flood of experts, bureaucrats, and analysts rush to the scene; ...

• Author(s): Hanneke Van Asperen • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press • Publisher Imprint: Amsterdam University Press • BISAC: GeneralDisasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been d...

• 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): J. Dickie • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - ItalyThere is no European society whose modern history has been more deeply marked by disasters, both natural and social, than has Italy's. Dis...

• Author(s): Natalie Rauscher | Welf Werner • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: American Government - GeneralChapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Governance.- Chapter 2. Disaster Made Manifest: The Federal Role in U.S. Natur...

• Author(s): Steve Matthewman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryDisasters are part of the modern condition, a source of physical anxiety and existential angst, and they are increasing ...

• 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): Havidán Rodríguez • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis second edition of the Handbook reflects some of the foundational topics for disaster studies; current substanti...

• Author(s): Matthew Seeger • Publisher: Stanford Business Books • Publisher Imprint: Stanford Business Books • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefHow did you first hear about 9/11? What images come to mind when you think of Hurricane Katrina?...

• Author(s): Vito Tanzi • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis book revisits a distinction introduced in 1921 by economists Frank Knight and John May...

• Author(s): Kathleen Tierney • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyDisasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do ...

• Author(s): David Eves • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Insurance - Risk Assessment & ManagementThis is a reprint of ISBN 978-0-901357-46-5 Disasters: learning the lessons for a safer world is both a ...

• Author(s): Kai T. Erikson • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn the twentieth century, disasters caused by human beings have become more and mor...

• Author(s): J. Stephen Kroll-Smith | Stephen Robert Couch • Publisher: University Press of Kentucky • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Kentucky • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefIn the 1950s Centralia was a small town, like many othe...

• Author(s): Jr. Zebrowski Ernest | Jr. Zebrowski • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeneralFrom epidemics and earthquakes to tornados and tidal waves, the overwhelmin...

• Author(s): J. Short • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyIn this volume, the USA is treated as a system that has been stress-tested by four unique events: the War on Terror, Hurri...

• Author(s): Benedikt M. Orlowski • Publisher: Transcript Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Transcript Publishing • BISAC: Human GeographyPeople experience disasters very differently. Conflicts about a "correct" interpretation of the risks might ar...

• Author(s): John R. Vile • Publisher: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • Publisher Imprint: Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. • BISAC: Safety & Security - Survival & Emergency PreparednessRarely does a month go by without news reports of a major natural cata...

• Author(s): Asperen Hanneke van | Lotte Jensen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralDisasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through...

• Author(s): Daka Hermon | National Geographic Kids • Publisher: National Geographic Kids • Publisher Imprint: National Geographic Kids • BISAC: Readers - BeginnerMarvel's X-Men favorite Storm and her super-powered friends introduce early readers...

• Author(s): David Keen • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: GeneralIn the late twentieth century, disasters seemed like distant happenings in countries far away from the prosperous West....

• Author(s): Robert Geipel • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThis series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and prac- titioners concerned with the principles and application...

• Author(s): Pradyumna P. Karan | Shanmugam P. Subbiah • Publisher: University Press of Kentucky • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Kentucky • BISAC: World - GeneralOn December 26, 2004, a massive tsunami triggered by an underwater earthqua...

• Author(s): Ian Convery • Publisher: Boydell Press • Publisher Imprint: Boydell Press • BISAC: Modern - GeneralConsiderations of the effect of trauma on heritage sites. The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural h...

• Author(s): Matthew Scott • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Human RightsClimate Change, Disasters and the Refugee Convention is concerned with refugee status determination (RSD) in t...

• 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 ...

• Author(s): David E. McNabb • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralIn this book David E. McNabb and Carl R. Swenson blend their different experiences to outline the nature of the crises g...

• Author(s): Gonzalo Lizarralde | Cassidy Johnson | Colin Davidson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefDisasters are not natural. Natural events such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, et...