Social Impact of Disasters

There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But if the end of capitalism seems to many like the...

'This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Apart from the epilogue, which is idiotic' Jeremy Clarkson'F*cking brilliant' Sarah KnightAN E...

In the Shadow of Tungurahua relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurah...

This book offers a comprehensive guide to reading and understanding the development of Mills's sociological ideas, placing them in the context of h...

Tourism Through Troubled Times explores the unparalleled crisis within the current global tourism industry, which includes not only a wide range of...

In this latest volume of the Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management series, Professors John Diamond and Joyce Liddle have ...

The massive disruptions caused by climate change, the Covid-19 Pandemic, war, and ever-rising inequalities have presented the world with challenges...

Making a bold intervention into critical security studies literature, this book explores the ontological relationship between mortality and securit...

Natural disasters, the effects of climate change, and political upheavals and war have driven tens of millions of people from their homes and spurr...

Hurricane Katrina forced the largest and most abrupt displacement in U.S. history. About 1.5 million people evacuated from the Gulf Coast preceding...

Winner, Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, Association for Humanist Sociology, 2016 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the Section o...

Uncovers the ways the United States government responds to natural and human-induced disasters in relation to race over the past eight decades When...

Children have a fundamental right to education, and to the protection that schools uniquely provide in the chaos that characterizes life for refuge...

Many communities in the United States have been abandoned by the state. What happens when natural disasters add to their misery? This book looks at...

Japan’s March 11, 2011 triple horror of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown is its worst catastrophe since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Recovery r...

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, outsiders will have two versions of the Katrina experience. One version will be the images they recall from news...

A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era–beliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting and rescuing citizens. Yet the a...

Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have...

Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly interdependent syst...

Silver Award Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book AwardsSocieties are vulnerable to any number of potential disasters: earthquakes, hurricanes, infectious ...

Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast in 2005, leaving an unparalleled trail of physical destruction. In addition to that damage, the storm wrou...

Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have...

From the author: When Citadel Values went to press, we began looking for an educational tool to capture the lessons and fortify our students in the...

Natural disasters, the effects of climate change, and political upheavals and war have driven tens of millions of people from their homes and spurr...

Disasters in today’s globalized world are becoming not only more frequent but, often, more catastrophic. The media play a critical role in communic...