Social Impact of Disasters

The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also caus...

The end of the world may be upon us, but it certainly is taking its sweet time playing out. The walkers on The Walking Dead have been walking f...

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisisSeven years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere s...

Authors Bruce Newsome and Jack Jarmon take a holistic look at the issues and risks, their solutions, controls, and countermeasures, and their polit...

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...