Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)

Discover a modern approach to help mitigate threats to public safety in your community.

In 1981 the sudden collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City's Hyatt hotel killed 114 people and injured another 200.

Black Beaches and Bayous: The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster provides a multidisciplinary, international perspective on one of the major disaster events within the United States during the last ten years.

Elise Lufkin and Diana Walker once again present a moving collection of profiles, in beautiful, duotone photographs and moving text, of dogs that have found new lives after being throw away dogs.

Out of sight of most Americans, global corporations like Nestl , Suez, and Veolia are rapidly buying up our local water sources lakes, streams, and springs and taking control of public water services.

In November 2019, a new strain of coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread across the world.

This book provides a historical account of the NGO CARE as one of the largest humanitarian NGOs worldwide from 1945 to 1980.

In March 2011 a magnitude 9 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of northern Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and damaging a nearby nuclear reactor.

Inside view of how and why militaries/intelligence agencies plan for environmental disasters, for practitioners, policymakers and scholars.

Control and Resistance reveals the various ways in which food writing of the early Franco era was a potent political tool, producing ways of eating and thinking about food that privileged patriotism over personal desire.

This book provides a historical account of the NGO CARE as one of the largest humanitarian NGOs worldwide from 1945 to 1980.

Urban Planning for Disaster Recovery focuses on disaster recovery from the perspective of urban planning, an underutilized tactic that can significantly reduce disaster risks.

Case Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention: Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series presents cases illustrating efforts to reduce human and material losses associated with disasters.

In 1981 the sudden collapse of two skywalks in Kansas City's Hyatt hotel killed 114 people and injured another 200.

The monograph covers the fundamentals and the consequences of extreme geophysical phenomena like asteroid impacts, climatic change, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, flooding, and space weather.

Hurricane Katrina is the latest in a series of major disasters that were not well managed, but it is not likely to be the last.

A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.

Natural Disasters as a Catalyst for Social Capital examines the vastly under-explored link between natural disasters and social capital in regards to the unprecedented June 2008 flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

The fifth title in Process' Self-Reliance series demystifies medical practices with a practical approach to twenty-first-century health and home medicine, particularly helpful in a financial downturn.

In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century.

The Grenfell Tower tragedy was the worst residential fire in London since World War II.

2020 has left an indelible mark on the history of travel and tourism worldwide leaving tourist destinations with long-term lessons to learn from the impacts of COVID-19.

While trauma and loss can occur anywhere, most suffering is experienced as personal tragedy.

Disasters are difficult to manage for many reasons: the immediacy of the event, magnitude of the event, lack of evidence-based practices, and the limited usefulness of many developed protocols.

The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular.

New collection of plays by reknowned solo artist and writer.

Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Canada - July 6, 2013.

As a well balanced and fully illustrated introductory text, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the physical, technological and social components of natural disaster.

Written by renowned experts, Introduction to Homeland Security, Sixth Edition, informs users about the concepts and bedrock principles of homeland security.

Social workers are increasingly engaged in supporting individuals and communities in long-term disaster recovery.

Chapter 1 provides a short overview of issues Congress may consider in its oversight of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA's) federal assistance during the 2017 hurricane season (e.

Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering.

The first biography of Asenath Nicholson, Compassionate Stranger recovers the largely forgotten history of an extraordinary woman.

What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters?

Did 9/11 revive a North American guns-butter trade-off?

This is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised.

After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees.

A Gift of Barbed Wire is a penetrating look at the lives of South Vietnamese officials and their families left behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975.

This book addresses disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies, focusing on reducing the paradox that exists between the compulsory implementation of DRR policies and continuing limitationsThe authors use their knowledge of the ever-evolving threats associated with disasters and their prevention to investigate this famous paradox and propose solutions that will help readers understand and reconsider its existence.

In this ground-breaking study, Sophie Body-Gendrot provides a comparative analysis of the growing problem of new forms of poverty and social marginalisation in contemporary advanced societies.

Exploration of the top four mega-dangers facing humankind and plots a hopeful path to dealing with them through global governance.

A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale.

Providing an account of the policy response to COVID-19 in England, this book analyses the political and long-term systemic factors associated with the failures to control the first wave of the pandemic during 2020.

With contributions from a range of expert voices within the field, this book explores the use of art therapy as a response to traumatic events.

Acclaim for The Great Fire of London"e;Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written.

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places.

A compelling overview of systems and strategies implemented to safeguard U.

Fashion is ready for a revolution.