Social Impact of Disasters

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. Haitian writers have ma...

Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who wont convert to Islam, and ...

Before and after a disaster strikes, it may be helpful to understand the broad outlines of the national emergency management structure and where au...

A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done...

The issue of the mental health consequences of disasters is always timely, but, at present, its consideration serves a pressing need if one takes i...

The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene - the term given ...

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

***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN AUTUMN 2021***A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending ...

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...

Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economie...

The American Red Cross is the nation''''s largest nonprofit organisation involved in disaster relief. The organisation provides services such as sh...

The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also caus...

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 f...

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisisSeven years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere s...

Authors Bruce Newsome and Jack Jarmon take a holistic look at the issues and risks, their solutions, controls, and countermeasures, and their polit...

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 ...

Alvarez drives home the point that for buildings and communities located in hurricane-prone regions, it is not a question of whether the area will ...

In this original and provocative new book, Stuart Price identifies the existence of a practice that lies at the core of the western security regime...

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 virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth'' New York Times Book Review''A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together ...

The Robert T. Stafford Emergency Relief and Disaster Assistance Act authorizes the President to issue declarations for incidents ranging from destr...

This book presents current research in the study of the devastating earthquake which occurred in Haiti in 2010. Topics discussed include the crisis...

The Robert T Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act authorises the President to issue major disaster or emergency declarations b...

Before and after a disaster strikes, it may be helpful to understand the broad outlines of the national emergency management structure and where au...

As awareness of climate change grows, so do the number of cultural depictions of environmental disaster. Graphic novels have reliably produced d...

A devastating loss of life and a community's response.March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside...

A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of ag...

A human disaster is defined as a hazardous event that overwhelms the capacity of the local community to respond to the needs of the affected popula...