?Five years after the Triple Disaster--the earthquake, tsunami, and the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power ......more

The objective of a business continuity plan is to ensure that your business will be able to continue operating in the ev......more

From the Japanese tsunami and Boston Marathon bombings to the Arab Spring in the Middle East, social media has proven it......more

As the world becomes more populated and globally connected, issues in security, systems viability, and the future must b......more

The first major publication on mass fatality management when it was published in 1999, the new edition of this bestselle......more

As social media continues to evolve at a rapid pace, emergency professionals need to know how to effectively implement a......more

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A ground breaking study of how access to water grows more precarious while non-profit solutions grow more ineffective A ......more

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How extreme events, paradoxically, sow the seeds of positive response--and create opportunities for becoming adaptive to......more

Explores the ever-present experiences of risk that characterized the daily existence of individuals, communities, and so......more

Five Days at Memorial meets Into the Raging Sea with this harrowing and moving true story of a devastating shipwreck dur......more

"Terry Gibson provides a thorough, sophisticated, yet accessible account of who the disastermakers are, what they do, an......more

"Terry Gibson provides a thorough, sophisticated, yet accessible account of who the disastermakers are, what they do, an......more

From COVID to climate-change-induced wildfires and hurricanes, we live in an era when catastrophes have become the new n......more

From COVID to climate-change-induced wildfires and hurricanes, we live in an era when catastrophes have become the new n......more

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America is getting serious about combatting the causes of the climate crisis, adapting to a climate-altered world and bu......more

America is getting serious about combatting the causes of the climate crisis, adapting to a climate-altered world and bu......more

This handbook addresses the diversity and complexity of social work practice in the context of disasters. Drawing on int......more

This book introduces readers to the development, principles, and philosophy of humanitarian diplomacy, before demonstrat......more

This book introduces readers to the development, principles, and philosophy of humanitarian diplomacy, before demonstrat......more

Tackling a global and seismic problem such as climate change requires an equally extensive approach. Investigating curre......more

Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Disaster Memorials and Monuments:......more

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptat......more

Oil Spill Science and Technology, Third Edition delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill relat......more

A riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history--and the coun......more

Are we winning or losing the battle for safe environments? In 1984, leading disaster risk management professionals and r......more

The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped life across the world, placing people at risk as our responses to it alter not only h......more

Disasters have a widescale impact with drastic consequences on human lives, especially those who are marginalised by the......more

A cross between Sheri Fink’s Five Days at Memorial and Rachel Slade’s Into the Raging Sea, the gripping and harrowing tr......more

This book is a narrative non-fiction, based on the patchy epistemologies of traditional small-scale fishers in India and......more

In late nineteenth-century Russia, a series of organizations emerged from the nascent radical liberationist movement for......more

One small town, two "thousand-year floods" in the span of two years: how does a community become resilient in the face o......more

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Judgment on Erebus is narrative nonfiction at its most compelling and unsettling. Commanded by one of Air New Zealand’s ......more

In the days after 9/11, the country was on high alert. So when an alarming incident occurred just off the Texas coast on......more

Local Disaster Management explores what resilience means for local communities and local governments on the front line o......more

Most of the phenomena described in this book have arisen as a result of various crises, disasters, threats, and forms of......more

Leaving the Hills by Tony Curtis is a collection full of stories from everywhere by a great Welsh poet at his best. From......more

American-born Larissa Babij is at home in Kyiv when Russia launches its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2......more

On March 14, 1940, a train heading west along Highway 83 from Donna to Alamo struck a truck driver turning north from th......more

Circle City Catastrophes Disaster was a fact of everyday life in 1800s and early 1900s Indianapolis. During the 1860s, m......more

On Wednesday, November 5, 1930, Sunday Creek Coal Company Mine #6 at Millfield became the unenviable site of Ohio’s wors......more

Flood Nowcasting: From Data to Decisions provides a fully comprehensive overview on flood casting and why this new metho......more

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme e......more

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme e......more

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world i......more

Climate change is having an immediate and sometimes life-threatening impact, especially for older adults - generally spe......more

Crisis and Contagion is a selection of fourteen interviews conducted by Ian McKay of the Wilson Institute at McMaster Un......more

2024 Longlist OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Bocas Lit Fest This collection ponders the personal and politica......more

This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism. It focuses on how pract......more

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On the morning of Saturday 15 April 1989, Jenni Hicks, her husband, and their two teenage daughters, Sarah and Vicki, we......more

The Path of Flames: Understanding and Responding to Fatal Wildfires is an edited volume covering the complexities of res......more

Natural disasters are social disruptions triggered by physical events. Every year, hundreds of natural disasters occur a......more

As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immed......more

Disaster are diversified in all aspects: they range from storms and tornadoes to earthquakes, tsunamis and cyclones. The......more

Over the course of the past century, there has been a sustained reflective engagement about environmental risks, disaste......more

In Famine (1981), a collection of essays by experts from the developing world and advanced agricultural societies, the a......more

The Role of Infrastructure in Disaster Risk Reduction: Capacity Planning for Feasible Resilience and Risk Management off......more

It can be said that not only India but also all other developing as well as developed countries of the world are now ser......more

"Magical...Lamia Ziadé tells the story of the explosion as she experienced it: from afar but in the heart. A book of lov......more

Effective risk communication is necessary to reduce the billions of dollars in damage and hundreds of fatalities that oc......more

The twenty-first century is an unpredictable place. While you cannot predict or prevent disasters, you can prepare for t......more

The title "Socio Economic Impacts of Extreme Weather" refers to the consequences that severe weather events, such as hur......more

A lively account of a controversial technology developed to mitigate earthquake risk and change how we live with threate......more

Some U.S. communities, such as low-income or minority communities, are disproportionately affected by escalating natural......more

In today’s uncertain world, it’s more important than ever to be prepared for any emergency. Whether it’s a natural disas......more

Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence "The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and f......more

Honoring to the medical professionals around the country who’ve risked their lives to fight the virus, the Pulitzer Priz......more

This book shows how Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) can be used for operations management in public institutions. I......more

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An unflinching look at the most urgent humanitarian crises around the globe, from one of the world’s most daring philoso......more