Social Impact of Disasters

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...

The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR) is the flagship report of the United Nations on worldwide efforts to reduce disaster ...

Disability Politics and Theory, a historical exploration of the concept of disability, covers the late nineteenth century to the present, introduci...

This book is for a broad audience of practitioners, policymakers, scholars, and anyone interested in scenarios, simulations, and disaster planning....

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TELEGRAPH AND THE NEW STATESMANA marvellous book Rev ...

When a plane crashes, a bomb explodes, a city floods or a pandemic begins, Lucy Easthope's phone starts to ring.________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BE...

This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict. It charts a path through the colonial histories and traumatic wars...

Images of the devastation wreaked by typhoons, flooding, earthquakes and drought in the Philippines circulate globally as an important part of disa...

In 1931, China suffered a catastrophic flood that claimed millions of lives. This was neither a natural nor human-made disaster. Rather, it was cre...

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However, emergency response and humanitarian relief organization...

This timely handbook brings together the fields of planning, disaster response, and hazards management to provide a field-tested process on how to ...