Social Issues & Processes

The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene - the term given ...

From the international bestselling author of The Post-American World 'An intelligent, learned and judicious guide for a world already in the making...

***A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN AUTUMN 2021***A brilliantly warm, witty and moving portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heart-rending ...

Is any disaster really forgotten?It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency servic...

Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economie...

The American Red Cross is the nation''''s largest nonprofit organisation involved in disaster relief. The organisation provides services such as sh...

The end of the world may be upon us, but it certainly is taking its sweet time playing out. The walkers on The Walking Dead have been walking f...

Moving stories of life in a country enduring an ongoing crisisSeven years after the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere s...

Gaby and her husband Sean and their four children live in a flat across from Grenfell Tower, and Sean (a Church of England minister) was the first ...

On 21 October 1966, 116 children and 28 adults died when a mountainside coal tip collapsed, engulfing homes and part of a school in the village of ...

Alvarez drives home the point that for buildings and communities located in hurricane-prone regions, it is not a question of whether the area will ...

In this original and provocative new book, Stuart Price identifies the existence of a practice that lies at the core of the western security regime...