Social Impact of Disasters

The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more of...

Myanmar in Crisis brings together scholars from across the social sciences to analyse the dual crises of COVID-19 and the 2021 military coup. All o...

Disasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chro...

It was an unlikely convergence of events. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake, the largest in Japanese memory and the fourth largest recorded in world histo...

In this age of near-perpetual disaster, from the Coronavirus epidemic and mass incarceration to hurricanes and earthquakes, spiritual care has beco...

Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrec...

Disasters in todays globalized world are becoming not only more frequent but, often, more catastrophic. The media play a critical role in communica...

The sesquicentenary of the Great Irish Famine saw the emergence of seminal, often revisionist, scholarship addressing the impact of the catastrophe...

Natural hazards, such as floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, typhoons, and wildfires, present significant challenges for managing risk and vulnerabili...

The book examines crisis management for operations located outside of a corporations normal confines, particularly in regions which might be overtl...

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

Japan, as recent history has powerfully illustrated, is one of the worlds most earthquake-prone countries. Today it is also one of the best prepare...

Japan, as recent history has powerfully illustrated, is one of the worlds most earthquake-prone countries. Today it is also one of the best prepare...