Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories
This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective....
EAN: 9783319927213
Business and Post-disaster Management
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the effect of a natural disaster on business...
EAN: 9781138317956
Lyla: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones
A gripping and personal story about one girl's experience of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and...
EAN: 9781760634773
Educating for Sustainability in Japan
EAN: 9781138615175
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Disaster Management
Now in its second edition, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Disaster Management has been...
EAN: 9781138489868
Disaster Risk Reduction
This book discusses the interconnected, complex and emerging risks in today’s societies and...
EAN: 9789811088445
Post-Fukushima Activism
Referencing Deleuzian philosophy, Azumi Tamura provides a different epistemological and...
EAN: 9781138068865
Natural Disasters and Risk Communication
This book examines the impending Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and tsunami from a...
EAN: 9781498556118
Disasters, Vulnerability, and Narratives
EAN: 9781138300750
Climate Change and Natural Disasters
The start of the new millennium will be remembered for deadly climate-related disasters - the...
EAN: 9781138567351
Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa has suffered repeated disasters: wars, drought, famine, mass refugee movements...
EAN: 9780333607992
Rising Sea
On Shismaref Island in Alaska, homes are being washed into the sea. In the South Pacific, small...
EAN: 9781597261913
Overcoming Katrina
Overcoming Katrina tells the stories of 27 New Orleanians as they fought to survive Hurricane...
EAN: 9780230608719
Mapping Vulnerability
Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people...
EAN: 9781853839634
Health Policy in a Globalising World
Increasing recognition of the impact globalisation is having on public health has led to...
EAN: 9780521009430
Evolutionary Catastrophes
Vincent Courtillot suggests that cataclysmic volcanic activity is linked to the death of the...
EAN: 9780521891189
Perils of a Restless Planet
Natural disasters continue to claim human lives and wreak havoc. Perils of a Restless Planet...
EAN: 9780521654883
Volcanoes
A new edition of Peter Francis's highly respected text, reflecting new research findings and new...
EAN: 9780199254699
Mapping Vulnerability
Analyses 'vulnerability' as a concept central to the way we understand disasters and their...
EAN: 9781853839641
Reduction And Predictability Of Natural Disasters
This book includes papers, presented at the workshop on "Reduction and Predictability of Natural...
EAN: 9780201870497
