Social Impact of Disasters

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

Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millets sublime new novelher first since the National Book Awardlonglisted Sweet Lamb of Heaven follows a group of ee...

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

How did the events of September 11, 2001 come to be thought of as 9/11? The Shock of the News is an authoritative account of post-9/11 political an...

In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village w...

The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. examines how natural disasters impact social inequality in ...

In a book as illuminating as it is captivating, Thomas E. Drabek presents an in-depth analysis of the emotional impacts of disaster events and the ...

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...