Social Impact of Disasters

From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new ch...

From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new ch...

Some of the most striking news stories from natural disasters are of animals tied to trees or cats swimming through murky flood waters. Although th...

Some of the most striking news stories from natural disasters are of animals tied to trees or cats swimming through murky flood waters. Although th...

Local Planning for Terror and Disaster gives voice to experts in key fields involved with local preparedness, assessing the quality of preparedness...

The monograph covers the fundamentals and the consequences of extreme geophysical phenomena like asteroid impacts, climatic change, earthquakes, ts...

An essential guide to the foundations, research and practices of community disaster resilience  Framing Community Disaster Resilience offers a guid...

Disaster Risk Reduction for the Built Environment provides a multi-facetted introduction to how a wide range of risk reduction options can be mains...

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing eleven workers and creating the largest oil spill in the history of U.S. offshor...

Very few studies have been conducted to explore the vulnerability of women in the context of climate change. This book addresses this absence by in...

When most of us think about climate change, we imagine the ice caps melting and sea levels risingbut the biggest threat will actually come from cat...

Disasters have a widescale impact with drastic consequences on human lives, especially those who are marginalised by the wider society. Proposing a...

Terrorism threats and increased school and workplace violence have always generated headlines, but in recent years, the response to these events ha...

Bringing together multidisciplinary scholars from the growing discipline of food studies, Food Mobilities examines food provisioning and the food c...

'One of the most perceptive and thought-provoking books Essential reading for these turbulent times.' Amitav Ghosh, author of The Great Derangement...

The pressure of climate change, environmental degradation, and urbanisation, as well as the widening of socio- economic disparities have rendered t...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, music listening increased as people used it to help to counter the psychological fallout of lockdown and reduce its e...

This comprehensive account of Californias numerous and perilous natural disasters explores how a unique combination of forces has affected Californ...

On Sunday, 28 December 1879, the 5.27 mail and passenger train from Burntisland to Dundee went out across the worlds longest bridge on a black, fie...

The international community has committed to ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030. But can we overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of mee...

The international community has committed to ending hunger and malnutrition by 2030. But can we overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of mee...

La comunidad internacional se ha comprometido a poner fin al hambre y a todas las formas de malnutrición en el mundo para el año 2030. ¿Pero podemo...

A diplomatic genius Gordon BrownTom Fletcher is the essential diplomat, and was my support and sounding board about virtually every country on eart...

Ullah, Chin, and Hassan provide a comprehensive examination of the transformative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Southeast Asia, examining its ...