?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

Machine Learning in Geohazard Risk Prediction and Assessment: From Microscale Analysis to Regional Mapping presents an o......more

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

Drawing on decades of on-the-ground experience, a strong body of existing research on the social construction of risk, a......more

Geohazards and Disasters: Modelling Scenarios as a Challenge for the Future aims to depict an updated view of the most s......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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In Famine (1981), a collection of essays by experts from the developing world and advanced agricultural societies, the a......more

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

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

The participation of the public sector in assessing the social impact of a wide range of projects is the focus of this g......more

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

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

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

This book assesses whether humanitarian agencies should withdraw assistance from current aid recipients to avoid exacerb......more

Unlock the secrets of survival with this riveting expedition into the science of disaster--now revised and updated to ad......more

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

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

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

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

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

Local Disaster Management explores what resilience means for local communities and local governments on the front line o......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. It charts a path through the colonial h......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

Tourism and Heritage in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) uses an ethnographic lens to explore the dissonances associat......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 explores, in rich, ethnographic detail, the lives of a group of Japanese fishers and community residents in co......more

Environmental disaster as well as degradation of natural resource has become the global problem. Accelerated conversion ......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 book takes the topic of aviation crisis and emergency management and walks the reader through what aviation organis......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

Graft is a common and persistent social pathogen that afflicts the developed and developing world in equal measure. This......more

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in haz......more

Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era th......more

To explore lessons learned from nondeclared-disaster events, researchers explain six case studies from diverse community......more

From earthquakes to oil spills, Italy is recurrently affected by different kinds of disasters. This book brings a critic......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

Moving beyond existing models from economics and political science, this book shows how crises in capitalism and democra......more

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

When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate......more

During the twenty-first century, Mexico has escalated extractive concessions at the same time that it has positioned its......more

Haiti’s state is near-collapse: armed groups have overrun the country, many government officials have fled after the 202......more

This text on the theory and applications of crowd safety provides the background and applications of crowd risk assessme......more

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

Part memoir, part expert analysis, Disasterology is a passionate and personal account of a country in crisis--one unprep......more

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

This handbook offers a broad-ranging overview of the study of translating and interpreting in conflict and crisis settin......more

This book presents international emergency mechanisms relative to disaster risk reduction (DRR). The goal is to share kn......more

This book presents international emergency mechanisms relative to disaster risk reduction (DRR). The goal is to share kn......more