Social Impact of Disasters

Between the sixth and twentieth centuries, the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (est. 529) experienced a cycle of atrocities which forever transf...

Disasters experienced by the hospitality industry have steadily increased over the past few decades, and the industry has emerged as one of the mos...

From COVID to climate-change-induced wildfires and hurricanes, we live in an era when catastrophes have become the new normal. But even though thes...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe story of a mother's quest to find her children against all odds, set against the epic backdrop of the sinking of the...

An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit (“the voice of the resistance”—New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lu...

CHOICE Recommended Title, March 2019This book brings together diverse new perspectives on current and emerging themes in space risk, covering both ...

Risk communication is crucial to building community resilience and reducing risk from extreme events.True community resilience involves accurate an...

This book is a revision of the author’s original doctoral thesis on emergency preparedness through community radio in North Indian villages into a ...

With an emphasis on the practical, this book explains how people react to different sorts of crises, whether they be economic, environmental, healt...

The tourism industry is one of the most susceptible and vulnerable to crisis. Yet the industry is poorly prepared - it is generally unable to antic...

This edited collection features fourteen newly commissioned articles, each of which responds to the theme of plague from different disciplinary per...

Standing in the Need presents an intimate account of an African American family’s ordeal after Hurricane Katrina. Before the storm struck, this fam...

Disasters are the result of complex interactions between social and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from the individual and community to ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has directly impacted the way teachers and learners worldwide teach and learn languages, forcing numerous educational activit...