Social Impact of Disasters

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

From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making...

Is any disaster really forgotten?It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency servic...

The end of the world may be upon us, but it certainly is taking its sweet time playing out. The walkers on The Walking Dead have been "walking"...

Gaby and her husband Sean and their four children live in a flat across from Grenfell Tower, and Sean (a Church of England minister) was the first ...

On 21 October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults died when a mountainside coal tip collapsed, engulfing homes and part of a school in the village of ...

Disasters, both natural and man-made, are on the rise. Indeed, a catastrophe of one sort or another seems always to be unfolding somewhere on th...

A Financial Times Business BOOK OF THE YEARAN INSIDE LOOK AT THE HORIZON POST OFFICE SCANDAL'Endlessly fascinating, brimming with insight, and more...

The only book to combine emergency management principLEs with proven military concepts Good disaster plans do not guarantee a good response. Any di...