Social Impact of Disasters

'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less'Masterly... Her essays have a clarity and prescience that imply ...

Crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, disasters, or violent conflict present numerous challenges for researchers. Faced with disruption, obstacles,...

An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit (the voice of the resistanceNew York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutun...

This book explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights; civil and political rights (CPR); economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR); and ...

This Open Access edited volume presents twelve African case studies that systematically reconstruct, document and analyse how national governments ...

In the past two years, the world has experienced how unsound economic practices can disrupt global economic and social order. Today's volatile glob...

On August 9, 1965, 53 men died in the impoverished hills of rural Arkansas. Their final breaths came in a government facility deep underground whil...

FINALIST FOR THE 2020 HILARY WESTON WRITERS TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION A New York Times New & Noteworthy Book A CBC Best Nonfiction Book of 2...

This collection of essays attempts to speak to the past, as it does the future. It engages the dialectics in Christians and Muslims' responses to t...

Epicentre to Aftermath makes both empirical and conceptual contributions to the growing body of disaster studies literature by providing an analysi...