Social Impact of Disasters

Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster grapples with the role of science in the public memory of natural disasters. Taking a psychoa...

This book is divided into 5 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of the management of this unprecedented health crisis. The first chapter...

Post-disaster housing concerns and dilemmas are complex, global in nature, and are inextricably intertwined with social, economic, and political co...

Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustra...

The concept of aftershocks is used in the context of earthquakes to describe the jolts felt after the initial quake, but no disaster is a singular ...

What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters? What human and structural factors need to be addressed to explain hazard vulnerability? A...

What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters? What human and structural factors need to be addressed to explain hazard vulnerability? A...

For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few examples of developing ...

The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, ind...

On December 2-3, 1984, India witnessed arguably the world s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, which continues to this day as an ...

Uncovers the ways the United States government responds to natural and human-induced disasters in relation to race over the past eight decades When...

The open access book aims to show the readers novel, relevant and reproducible power of synergistic collaborations between European research groups...