Social Impact of Disasters

This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics. It looks at folklore, tribal folktales, eyewitness accou...

How the politicization of the pandemic endangers our livesand our democracyCOVID-19 has killed more people than any war or public health crisis in ...

Oil Spill Science and Technology, Third Edition delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill related topics from oil properti...

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...