Social Impact of Disasters
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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Serhii PlokhyCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018**WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019*'As moving as it is painstakingly researched...
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THE SHOCK DOCTRINE
Agenda Bookshop€16.99'Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' John le CarreAround the world in Britain, the United States, Asia a...
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If I Survive You
Jonathan EscofferyCurrent price €14.99Original price €18.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE Dazzling GUARDIAN ...
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How High We Go in the Dark
Sequoia NagamatsuCurrent price €22.26Original price €26.50SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 FINALIST FOR THE BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE 2022 FINALIST FOR THE URSULA LE GUIN PR...
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If I Survive You
Jonathan EscofferyCurrent price €16.19Original price €19.99SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE Dazzling GUARDIAN ...
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Living in the End Times
Slavoj ZizekCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. But if the end of capitalism seems to many like the...
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Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up
Tom PhillipsCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'This book is brilliant. Utterly, utterly brilliant. Apart from the epilogue, which is idiotic' Jeremy Clarkson'F*cking brilliant' Sarah KnightAN E...
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Individual Resilience to Urban Flooding and the Implications for Urban Management
Jing SongCurrent price €101.69Original price €112.99This book argues that the substantial life and property loss caused by urban flooding might not be a pure result of a vulnerable physical environme...
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The Intercultural Approach to Covid 19 Management: In Germany, France and the Indian Ocean countries
Peter Lang AG Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99This book is divided into 5 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of the management of this unprecedented health crisis. The first chapter...
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Famine: Book Three of The Decimation Series
Patrick A SimsCurrent price €11.89Original price €13.99Current price €11.89Original price €13.99Save 15% -
Coming Home after Disaster: Multiple Dimensions of Housing Recovery
Taylor & Francis IncCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99Post-disaster housing concerns and dilemmas are complex, global in nature, and are inextricably intertwined with social, economic, and political co...
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Reforming New Orleans: The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy
Matthew O. ThomasCurrent price €116.99Original price €129.99Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustra...
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Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm
Haymarket BooksCurrent price €59.39Original price €65.99The concept of aftershocks is used in the context of earthquakes to describe the jolts felt after the initial quake, but no disaster is a singular ...
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Media, Environment and the Network Society
A. AndersonCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The news media has become a key arena for staging environmental conflicts. Through a range of illuminating examples ranging from climate change to ...
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Disability and Disaster: Explorations and Exchanges
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Disability and Disaster adds disaster research to the expanding area of disability studies. The book includes writings by international scholars an...
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Trauma and Public Memory
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are ...
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Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context
Kenneth A. LoparoCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Human Service Organizations in the Disaster Context explores the efforts of human service practitioners to support communities facing the impacts o...
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Natural Hazards, Second Edition: Explanation and Integration
Burrell E. MontzCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters? What human and structural factors need to be addressed to explain hazard vulnerability? A...
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Natural Hazards, Second Edition: Explanation and Integration
Burrell E. MontzCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters? What human and structural factors need to be addressed to explain hazard vulnerability? A...
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When There Was No Aid: War and Peace in Somaliland
Sarah G. PhillipsCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99For all of the doubts raised about the effectiveness of international aid in advancing peace and development, there are few examples of developing ...
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Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters, and Environmental Health Risks: Local and Global Environmental Struggles
Francis O. AdeolaCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, ind...
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Surviving Bhopal: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and Oral Testimonials of Women in the Wake of an Industrial Disaster
S. MukherjeeCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99On December 2-3, 1984, India witnessed arguably the world s worst industrial disaster in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, which continues to this day as an ...
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Water and Social Policy
M. PawarCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Manohar Pawar discusses the relevance and importance of social policy for water issues. By analysing several interrelated perspectives on water, he...
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Hazardous Wastes, Industrial Disasters, and Environmental Health Risks: Local and Global Environmental Struggles
Francis O. AdeolaCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline. This book focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, ind...
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Governing Disasters: Beyond Risk Culture
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Based on extensive ethnographic and historical research conducted in diverse field locations, this volume offers an acute analysis of how actors at...
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Identifying Future Disease Hot Spots: Infectious Disease Vulnerability Index
Adeyemi OkunogbeCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Current price €23.85Original price €26.50Save 10% -
Fire Hazards: Socio-economic and Regional Issues
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The open access book aims to show the readers novel, relevant and reproducible power of synergistic collaborations between European research groups...
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Territorial Governance in Times of Crisis: Regional Responses, Communication and Public Opinion in Italy During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Antonella SeddoneCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99This book offers a comprehensive exploration of multi-level governance, political communication and public opinion in Italy during the Covid-19 eme...
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The Wrong Complexion for Protection: How the Government Response to Disaster Endangers African American Communities
Beverly WrightCurrent price €72.89Original price €80.99Uncovers the ways the United States government responds to natural and human-induced disasters in relation to race over the past eight decades When...
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Cambodias Trials: Contrasting Visions of Truth, Transitional Justice and National Recovery: 2024
NIAS PressCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99More than four decades have passed since the end of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia in 1979. Even so, the country is still coming to terms with the de...
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Fire Hazards: Socio-economic and Regional Issues
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99The open access book aims to show the readers novel, relevant and reproducible power of synergistic collaborations between European research groups...
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