?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

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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

Fighting with FEMA covers the practical, real-world key principles necessary to successfully navigate the nuances of fed......more

The riveting true story of one of Canada’s worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived it Forewor......more

How should humanitarian organisations respond when their aid goes awry? Should they stay and remain engaged with the nee......more

In BAD CONSTRUCTION, WORSE ENGINEERS, Mario Levarie takes readers on a gripping journey through the catastrophic collaps......more

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Navigating Rising Tides: Coastal Adaptations in an Era of Climate Change is a paramount collection of scientific journal......more

Navigating Rising Tides: Coastal Adaptations in an Era of Climate Change is a paramount collection of scientific journal......more

Drawing on the Pakistan Earthquake Reconstruction and Recovery Project (PERRP), this volume explores the sociocultural s......more

This book offers leaders, especially those in disaster management, a way to improve their ability to lead, serve, and pr......more

Mohan, Chindaliya, and Thomas offer an ethnographic critique of modern, neoliberal India from the perspective of studyin......more

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The Deadliest Twister in U.S. History The weather forecast for much of the Midwest on March 18, 1925, predicted "Wind an......more

Are you physically prepared to face an uncertain future? Whether it’s a natural disaster, societal upheaval, or an unexp......more

Are you ready to prepare for whatever the future may bring, but aren’t sure where to begin? The Beginner’s Guide to Prep......more

In this report, authors provide an assessment of the ability of government agencies and the private sector on both sides......more

This technical report assesses the string of events that triggered Nepal’s Melamchi River floods in 2021 and highlights ......more

The Federal Emergency Management Agency requires two assessments for communities participating in certain grant programs......more

Preventing Nuclear War: The Medical and Humanitarian Case for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons provides a window into ......more

This book grapples with the role of science in the public memory of natural disasters and explores how we remember natur......more

This book explores what to do with heritage that has been destroyed in conflict in Syria and Iraq. Drawing on research i......more

Atmospheric Violence grapples with the afterlife of environmental disasters and armed conflict and examines how people a......more

The increasing intensity and frequency of natural disasters all around the world has caused severe socioeconomic impacts......more

Service-Learning for Disaster Resilience is the first to discuss, in practical and theoretical terms, the pedagogical ap......more

Using "risk" as a conceptual lens, this book analyzes how communities across East Asia responded to the disruption unlea......more

This book summarizes the works of 39 authors who collectively wrote 14 peer reviewed papers in areas of leadership, curr......more

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

This book provides an overview of disaster management, covering all stages from preparedness to recovery. It defines Eme......more

This book shows the profundity of life for fishing families living in a disaster-strewn world in Japan. Using their own ......more

Survive the Silence: Navigate the Aftermath of an EMP with Confidence In an instant, the world as we know it can change.......more

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Qualification System (FQS) is a credentialing process that focuses on......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

While trauma and loss can occur anywhere, most suffering is experienced as personal tragedy. Yet some tragedies transcen......more

"A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises."--Provide......more

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

This seminal book is the first sustained critical work that engages with the varieties of literature following the tripl......more

This book takes the topic of aviation crisis and emergency management and walks the reader through what aviation organis......more

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

This book describes, through the medium of international case studies, how graft undermines public safety....more