Social Impact of Disasters

This book tackles the question of how we can manage flood-related disaster risks, such as from typhoons, monsoons, and torrential rain, which have ...

This book provides an important lens for understanding how interlocking humanitarian crises caused by armed conflict, natural disasters, forced dis...

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

From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the thrilling and perfectly paced (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of Bou...

Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run wild with visions of ...

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

This book offers a unique perspective on Swedens COVID-19 response in its publicly funded welfare sector, which was initially highly criticised but...

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...

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...

As the Gulf of Mexico recovers from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, natural resource managers face the challenge of understanding the impacts of t...

In many ways, Australia handled the COVID-19 pandemic as well as any country in the world but what did we get wrong?Australia's economic policy re...

An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit (the voice of the resistanceNew York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutun...

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

This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with...

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

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...

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

As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the worldfrom climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governmentssoci...

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

Focusing on the discursive dimension of the COVID-19 pandemic from a semiotic perspective, this book uses semiotic theory and methods to analyse th...