Social Impact of Disasters
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Shadows and Light: A Physician''s Lens on COVID
Heather PattersonCurrent price €31.19Original price €39.99When the pandemic began in March 2020, Calgary emergency physician Heather Patterson was already feeling burnt out. Photography had always been a w...
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Environmental Resilience in the Pandemic Years 20202021: COVID-19 and Environmental Ecosystem
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €108.23Original price €122.99This book focuses on the indirect effects on environmental resilience. The COVID-19 epidemic and the 2020 global pandemic have had an unprecedented...
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Managing Disasters through PublicPrivate Partnerships
Ami J. Abou-bakrCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, generated a great deal of discussion in public policy and disast...
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Post-Apocalyptic Joe in a Cinematic Wasteland - Episode 2
Joe GillisCurrent price €10.07Original price €11.99Current price €10.07Original price €11.99Save 16% -
Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change
Meghan Elizabeth KallmanCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the worldfrom climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governmentssoci...
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The Power of Technology in School Leadership during COVID-19: Insights from the Field
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99This book discusses school leaders ability to use digital technologies successfully through specific approaches and techniques. It also discusses t...
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Appalachian Ghost: A Photographic Reimagining of the Hawks Nest Tunnel Disaster
Catherine Venable MooreCurrent price €39.77Original price €50.99In the early days of the Great Depression, the search for steady work drove hundreds of migrant laborers - many of whom were African American - fro...
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How to Write an Emergency Plan
David E. AlexanderCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The world is becoming more hazardous as natural and social processes combine to create complex situations of increased vulnerability and risk. Ther...
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Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation
Danielle ArigoniCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults generally speaking, people 65 or older. O...
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Prepare for Zombies, Survive a Flood: Natural Disaster Lessons from Undead Cinema
Michael WaltonCurrent price €32.36Original price €38.99Disaster can strike anyone at any time and unfortunately most people are not prepared for it. Disaster preparedness is essential, but most find ...
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The BASIC Ph Model of Coping and Resiliency: Theory, Research and Cross-Cultural Application
Jessica Kingsley PublishersCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99The 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...
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Worst-Case Scenario?: Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime
Doctor Stuart PriceCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99In this original and provocative new book, Stuart Price identifies the existence of a practice that lies at the core of the western security regime...
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Special Issue Cassandra''s Curse: The Law and Foreseeable Future Disasters
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €95.39Original price €105.99This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines the relationship between law and disasters. The papers come from members of th...
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No Way Home: One War, Two Sisters.
Elisabeth DunleavyCurrent price €19.91Original price €23.99November 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...
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Design and Covid-19: From Reaction to Resilience
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €68.72Original price €78.99Presenting key examples and case studies of how design has responded to the pandemic, Design and Covid-19 offers lessons and approaches to design f...
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Design and Covid-19: From Reaction to Resilience
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €23.93Original price €27.50Presenting key examples and case studies of how design has responded to the pandemic, Design and Covid-19 offers lessons and approaches to design f...
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Politics and Administrative Justice: Postliberalism, Street-Level Bureaucracy and the Reawakening of Democratic Citizenship
Nick OBrienCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99In recent years, failures in health and social care, mental health services, public housing and education have dominated headlines and been the sub...
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In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador
A.J. FaasCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99In the Shadow of Tungurahua relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurah...
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Aftershock: A Novel
Zhang LingCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99A catastrophic disaster in China triggers a mothers heartbreaking choice and a daughters reconciliation with the past in a powerful novel by the au...
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Leadership Refined by Fire: A Firefighter''s Guide to Develop Leadership Skills, Motivate and Inspire Others, and Deliver Exceptional Care for the Public
Cuomo J MCurrent price €20.23Original price €22.99Current price €20.23Original price €22.99Save 12% -
The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
Juliette KayyemCurrent price €25.08Original price €28.50The future may still be unpredictable, but nowadays, disasters are not. We live in a time of constant, consistent catastrophe, where things more of...
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Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading
Leigh RaymondCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Current price €38.69Original price €42.99Save 10% -
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Mike DavisCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Counterpointing Los Angeles's central role in America's fantasy life - the city has been destroyed no less than 138 times in novels and films since...
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Myanmar in Crisis: Living with the Pandemic and the Coup
ISEASCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Myanmar 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...
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