Social Impact of Disasters

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...

The 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station led to serious radioactive contamination of the environment. Due to transportation...

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

The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Disasters provides the first comprehensive review of the role played by international human rights law i...

A Financial Times Business BOOK OF THE YEARAN INSIDE LOOK AT THE HORIZON POST OFFICE SCANDAL'Endlessly fascinating, brimming with insight, and more...

Jessica Pardee documents and examines the experiences of low-income African American women during Hurricane Katrina to uncover the ways that race, ...

The only book to combine emergency management principLEs with proven military concepts Good disaster plans do not guarantee a good response. Any di...