Social Impact of Disasters

A riveting portrait of how one community used the power of culture to restore their lives and social connections in the years after a devastating n...

A riveting portrait of how one community used the power of culture to restore their lives and social connections in the years after a devastating n...

Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food c...

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty thousand square miles across seven states, was the most destructive river flood in...

Hurricane Katrina inflicted damage on a scale unprecedented in American history, nearly destroying a major city and killing thousands of its citize...

One of our most celebrated historians shows how we can use the lessons of the past to build a new post-covid society in BritainThe 'duty of care' w...

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

In October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfoldsoon to become the world's larges...

In October 2010, nine months after the massive earthquake that devastated Haiti, a second disaster began to unfoldsoon to become the world's larges...

Engaging the Public in Critical Disaster Planning and Decision Making is the summary of a workshop held in March 2013 to discuss the key principles...

The collapse of the World Trade Center shattered windows across the street in Battery Park City, throwing the neighborhood into darkness and smothe...

Are our values and aspirations the same as before the pandemic, or has a microscopic virus changed us forever? Moving from labour ward to funer...

Japan was shaken by the 'double disaster' of earthquake and sarin gas attack in 1995, and in 2011 it was hit once again by the 'triple disaster' of...

Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated area...

Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown? It changes us alone.A man abroa...

Heartbreaking stories from survivors along the Texas Gulf Coast Hurricane Harvey was one of the worst American natural disasters in recorded histor...

There is a nuclear ghost in Minamisma. This is how one resident describes a mysterious experience following the 2011 nuclear fallout in coastal Fuk...

On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not t...

On February 27, 2010, Chile was rocked by a violent earthquake five hundred times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti just six weeks prior. T...