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Columbine, 20 Years Later and Beyond: Lessons from Tragedy

Columbine, 20 Years Later and Beyond: Lessons from Tragedy

This powerful retrospective analysis of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting aftermath considers society’s response t......more

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919

A new 100th anniversary edition of the only adult book on one of the odder disasters in US history--and the greed, disre......more

Policing in Natural Disasters: Stress, Resilience, and the Challenges of Emergency Management

Policing in Natural Disasters: Stress, Resilience, and the Challenges of Emergency Management

When natural disasters and emergencies strike, the short- and long-term effects of these events on first responders--the......more

Philippine City Disaster Insurance Pool: Rationale and Design

Philippine City Disaster Insurance Pool: Rationale and Design

This report presents the rationale for and design of a city government disaster insurance pool in the Philippines. Insur......more

Thrilling Tales of the Montrose Search and Rescue

Thrilling Tales of the Montrose Search and Rescue

Los Angeles is one of the biggest cities in the world, but is incongruously a ten-minute drive from a vast impenetrable ......more

The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand

The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand

From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and informa......more

The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand

The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand

From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and informa......more

The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand

The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand

From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and informa......more

The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand

The Boys in the Cave: Deep Inside the Impossible Rescue in Thailand

From award-winning ABC News Chief National Correspondent Matt Gutman, and written using exclusive interviews and informa......more

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone

Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone

A renowned journalist for London s The Times and the author of People Who Eat Darkness, Richard Lloyd Parry delivers the......more

Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas

Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas

In her groundbreaking Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas, Judith Sierra-Rivera studies......more

Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas

Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas

In her groundbreaking Affective Intellectuals and the Space of Catastrophe in the Americas, Judith Sierra-Rivera studies......more

Crash Course in Disaster Preparedness

Crash Course in Disaster Preparedness

Every library needs to have a disaster management plan in place before disaster strikes. This short but thorough manual ......more

Social Media Use in Crisis and Risk Communication: Emergencies, Concerns and Awareness

Social Media Use in Crisis and Risk Communication: Emergencies, Concerns and Awareness

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. Presenting research on social med......more

Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance

Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance

In both climate change and financial crises, worst-case scenarios and disastrous risks are inescapable. Yet public polic......more

We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time

FOREWORD BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND LUIS A. MIRANDA, JR. The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands......more

Horn of Africa Impact of Early Warning Early Action: Protecting Pastoralist Livelihoods Ahead of Drought

Horn of Africa Impact of Early Warning Early Action: Protecting Pastoralist Livelihoods Ahead of Drought

This study analyses the outcomes of early actions implemented in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia in 2017, evaluating how eff......more

New York After 9/11

New York After 9/11

An estimated 2 billion people around the world watched the catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center. The enorm......more

K9 Teams: Beyond the Basics of Search and Rescue and Recovery

K9 Teams: Beyond the Basics of Search and Rescue and Recovery

A professional development masterclass for K9 detection teams and people who work with them. Explore: Questions, ideas, ......more

Disaster Free Survivor Strikes Back: Storms of Love & Loss

Disaster Free Survivor Strikes Back: Storms of Love & Loss

Disasters happen! These are the stories of love and loss. Many victims died in disasters. These are the stories of how s......more

Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster

Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster

A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco i......more

Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster

Recovering Inequality: Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster

A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco i......more

The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

The Great Quake: How the Biggest Earthquake in North America Changed Our Understanding of the Planet

New York Times Book Review Editors Choice - A riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in North American recorde......more

Moment of Truth: The Nature of Catastrophes and How to Prepare for Them

Moment of Truth: The Nature of Catastrophes and How to Prepare for Them

We are woefully unprepared for our next major disaster--but the lessons we ve learned post-9/11 in NYC can show all of A......more

Houseraising

Houseraising

The Jersey Shore was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, and remains under threat from storms, erosion, and rising sea levels......more

The 1913 McKinney Store Collapse

The 1913 McKinney Store Collapse

A powerful vibration, a deafening noise and a swell of thick dust brought residents of McKinney pouring into the public ......more

When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri

When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri

Winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore Prize In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US ......more

Unsafety: Disaster Management, Organizational Accidents, and Crisis Sciences for Sustainability

Unsafety: Disaster Management, Organizational Accidents, and Crisis Sciences for Sustainability

This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and disasters in the modern er......more

Historic Tales of Michigan Up North

Historic Tales of Michigan Up North

Centuries ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tri......more

Humanitarian Action and Ethics

Humanitarian Action and Ethics

From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and diffi......more

Humanitarian Action and Ethics

Humanitarian Action and Ethics

From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and diffi......more

Titanic the Brothers Peracchio: Two Boys and a Dream

Titanic the Brothers Peracchio: Two Boys and a Dream

Titanic The Brothers Peracchio-Two Boys and a Dream is a non fiction historical work of author/Titanic historian Angelic......more

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

"We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the ine......more

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Ricans Take on the Disaster Capitalists

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Ricans Take on the Disaster Capitalists

In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich Puertopians are locked in a pitched struggle over how to r......more

Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry

Outside the Asylum: A Memoir of War, Disaster and Humanitarian Psychiatry

What happens if the psychiatric hospital in which you have lived for ten years is bombed and all the staff run away? Wha......more

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

"We are in a fight for our lives. Hurricanes Irma and María unmasked the colonialism we face in Puerto Rico, and the ine......more

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Take on the Disaster Capitalists

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Take on the Disaster Capitalists

In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich Puertopians are locked in a pitched struggle over how to r......more

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Ricans Take on the Disaster Capitalists

The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Ricans Take on the Disaster Capitalists

In the rubble of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Ricans and ultrarich Puertopians are locked in a pitched struggle over how to r......more

When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri

When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri

Winner of the 2019 Chicago Folklore Prize In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US ......more

La batalla por el paraiso: Puerto Rico Y El Capitalismo Del Desastre

La batalla por el paraiso: Puerto Rico Y El Capitalismo Del Desastre

Entre los escombros del huracan Maria, los puertorriquenos y los Puertopians ultra-ricos estan atrapados en una batalla ......more

Disaster Management: Weather Hazards

Disaster Management: Weather Hazards

As the population and pollution is on the rise, it has disturbed the natural environment; this has led to many weather h......more

Humanitarian Logistics: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing for and Responding to Disasters

Humanitarian Logistics: Meeting the Challenge of Preparing for and Responding to Disasters

Effective logistics play a critical role in disaster preparation and response, but how can those working in this field d......more

The Aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Living Among the Rubble

The Aftermath of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Living Among the Rubble

Based on witness testimony and eighteen months of fieldwork, this work of disaster ethnography examines the effects of E......more

Risk Reduction, Resilience and Recovery of Natural Hazards

Risk Reduction, Resilience and Recovery of Natural Hazards

Natural hazards are natural phenomena that cause immense damage to the environment. Tornadoes, earthquakes, volcanic eru......more

The Brockton Tragedy at Moosehead Lake

The Brockton Tragedy at Moosehead Lake

Follow the tragic story of a fishing trip gone wrong and its impact on the community of Brockton, Massachusetts. On May ......more

Critical Environmental Communication: How Does Critique Respond to the Urgency of Climate Change?

Critical Environmental Communication: How Does Critique Respond to the Urgency of Climate Change?

This book examines how four contemporary critical theorists deal with the tension between their impulses to doubt and to......more

Resilience

Resilience

Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human-environment relations, and the governance of thes......more

Resilience

Resilience

Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human-environment relations, and the governance of thes......more

Constructing Destruction: Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City

Constructing Destruction: Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City

Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of proce......more

The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

Green social work espouses a holistic approach to all peoples and other living things - plants and animals, and the phys......more

Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy

Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy

Governing Disaster in Urban Environments provides a comprehensive account of relevant debates, conceptualizations, and p......more

Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance After Katrina

Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance After Katrina

Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification Like no other Ame......more

Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance After Katrina

Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance After Katrina

Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification Like no other Ame......more

Natural Hazards: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Landslides

Natural Hazards: Earthquakes, Volcanoes, and Landslides

Over the years, the interactions between land, ocean, biosphere and atmosphere have increased, mainly due to population ......more

The Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Study of Disasters and Response

The Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands: A Study of Disasters and Response

This first full-length book addresses disasters in the context of vulnerability of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that ......more

Exploring Natural Hazards: A Case Study Approach

Exploring Natural Hazards: A Case Study Approach

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 has identified four priority areas for Disaster Risk Reductio......more

Portland Firefighting

Portland Firefighting

The city of Portland, Maine, has an extraordinary history as a prominent seaport dating back to early colonial times. Fe......more

Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti: Disaster Industrial Complex

Production of Disaster and Recovery in Post-Earthquake Haiti: Disaster Industrial Complex

Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowle......more

Summers of Fire: A Memoir of Adventure, Love and Courage

Summers of Fire: A Memoir of Adventure, Love and Courage

Linda Strader is one of the first women hired on a fire crew with the U.S. Forest Service. A naïve twenty-year-old in th......more

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