Social Impact of Disasters

Very few studies have been conducted to explore the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change. This book addresses this absence by in...

This book is a revision of the authors original doctoral thesis on emergency preparedness through community radio in North Indian villages into a w...

As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the worldfrom climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governmentssoci...

With an emphasis on the practical, this book explains how people react to different sorts of crises, whether they be economic, environmental, healt...

Focusing on the discursive dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic from a semiotic perspective, this book uses semiotic theory and methods to analyse th...

This first full-length book addresses disasters in the context of vulnerability of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that comprise 572 islands in the...

A detailed examination of the COVID-19 pandemic.Down the COVID-19 Rabbit Hole discusses the widespread misuse of science during the pandemic, the l...

Catastrophe weaves together compelling stories and potent lessons learned from the calamitous Halifax explosion - the worst non-natural disaster in...

Heady and dark and dangerous, The Pink Hotel is an intoxicating binge of a book. Liska Jacobs's stunning indictment of a society teetering toward a...