Social Impact of Disasters

Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working ...

On 2 May 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. The cyclone wreaked untold havoc, but the regime, in an unfathomable decision ...

We are woefully unprepared for our next major disaster-but the lessons we''ve learned post-9/11 in NYC can show all of America the way to true resi...

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This book provides the reader practical advice on how to effectively manage and overcome a crisis. Authors Robert R. Ulmer, Timothy L. Sellnow, and...

This is the definitive, unique account of the disaster in which 96 men, women and children were killed, hundreds injured and thousands traumatised....

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. Haitian writers have ma...

Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who wont convert to Islam, and ...

Before and after a disaster strikes, it may be helpful to understand the broad outlines of the national emergency management structure and where au...

A global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done...

The issue of the mental health consequences of disasters is always timely, but, at present, its consideration serves a pressing need if one takes i...

The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene - the term given ...

From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making...

***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN AUTUMN 2021***A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending ...

Is any disaster really forgotten?It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency servic...

Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economie...