Social Impact of Disasters

The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Disasters provides the first comprehensive review of the role played by international human rights law i...

A Financial Times Business BOOK OF THE YEARAN INSIDE LOOK AT THE HORIZON POST OFFICE SCANDAL'Endlessly fascinating, brimming with insight, and more...

Jessica Pardee documents and examines the experiences of low-income African American women during Hurricane Katrina to uncover the ways that race, ...

The only book to combine emergency management principLEs with proven military concepts Good disaster plans do not guarantee a good response. Any di...

In this book, the authors discuss the global assessment, public attitudes and psychosocial effects of war. Topics include war and the effects of po...

A tsunami is a series of water waves that is caused when a large volume of a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, vo...