Social Impact of Disasters

The Covid-19 pandemic was, and remains, a global disaster - claiming countless lives and wreaking economic havoc that still reverberates today. But...

Renowned sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg turns a year of devastation into a year of revelation in this wise, deeply researched ...

Winner of the 2016 Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropological Association  The 2010 earthquake in Haiti was one of the deadliest...

This book focuses on the indirect effects on environmental resilience. The COVID-19 epidemic and the 2020 global pandemic have had an unprecedented...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, generated a great deal of discussion in public policy and disast...

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

In the early days of the Great Depression, the search for steady work drove hundreds of migrant laborers - many of whom were African American - fro...

The world is becoming more hazardous as natural and social processes combine to create complex situations of increased vulnerability and risk. Ther...

Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults generally speaking, people 65 or older. O...

As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns...

The BASIC Ph model of coping and resiliency, developed by Prof. Mooli Lahad and Dr. Ofra Ayalon, was the first to describe coping as an on-going ef...

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines the relationship between law and disasters. The papers come from members of th...

November 1944 in war-torn Germany, 17-year-old Christa-Maria begins her compulsory service at a work camp in Wahrenbruck. Hundreds of miles from he...

Presenting key examples and case studies of how design has responded to the pandemic, Design and Covid-19 offers lessons and approaches to design f...

Presenting key examples and case studies of how design has responded to the pandemic, Design and Covid-19 offers lessons and approaches to design f...

In recent years, failures in health and social care, mental health services, public housing and education have dominated headlines and been the sub...

In the Shadow of Tungurahua relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurah...

A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mothers heartbreaking choice and a daughters reconciliation with the past in a powerful novel by the au...