Social Impact of Disasters

How do survivors recover from the worst urban flood in American history, a disaster that destroyed nearly the entire physical landscape of a city, ...

In 2008, three years after Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly path along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico, researchers J. Steven Picou and Keit...

The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional ways of mourning. Patients were admitted to ho...

The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional ways of mourning. Patients were admitted to ho...

Control and Resistance reveals the various ways in which food writing of the early Franco era was a potent political tool, producing ways of eating...

This book explores, in rich, ethnographic detail, the lives of a group of Japanese fishers and community residents in coastal Japan in the aftermat...

Labyrinths explores the origins of thirteen books I have written in the past few decades, texts that have helped to define the emerging parameters ...

Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flourish despite ...

Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people attempt to flourish despite ...

This book offers insights into some of the digital innovations, structural adaptations and analogue solutions that enabled live performance in the ...

This volume places the Flint, Michigan, water contamination disaster in the context of a broader crisis created by neoliberal governance in the Uni...

Reconstructing Resilient Communities after the Wenchuan Earthquake: Disaster Recovery in China looks at the changes in Chinese society following th...

Crisis Intervention takes into account various environments and populations across the lifespan to provide students with practical guidelines for m...

When Titanic began sending out distress calls, one of the first to reply was the Cunard liner Carpathia. As it turned out, Carpathia was the only v...

The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cybera...

The origins and development of the modern American emergency stateFrom pandemic disease, to the disasters associated with global warming, to cybera...