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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 44,7 Mb
• Release Date : 22 October 2020

Offers the first comprehensive overview of research into hazards and disasters from a historical perspective. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 39,7 Mb
• Release Date : 26 January 2016

Japan was shaken by the 'double disaster' of earthquake and sarin gas attack in 1995, and in 2011 it was hit once again by the 'triple disaster' of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear

• Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
• File Size : 43,9 Mb
• Release Date : 30 December 1999

This is the first concise introduction to emergency management, the emerging profession that deals with disasters from floods and earthquakes to terrorist attacks. Coverage includes: --The history of emergency management

• Publisher : GRIN Verlag
• File Size : 40,8 Mb
• Release Date : 14 January 2016

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, University College London, language: English, abstract: This research seeks to enhance the disaster

• Publisher : Springer Nature
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 22 September 2023

This book examines the history of disaster management in South Africa, showing how experts, professionals and policymakers have crafted and implemented disaster policies from the mid-twentieth century to the present

• Publisher : Policy Press
• File Size : 42,7 Mb
• Release Date : 30 March 2023

When disaster strikes, our instinctive response is to make things better, not only as individuals but also as groups, organisations, communities and major institutions within society. With increasing climate-related disasters

• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 22,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2011

Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management focuses on manifested threats to humans and their welfare as a result of natural disasters. The book uses an integrative approach to

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 21,5 Mb
• Release Date : 14 May 2024

• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• File Size : 37,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 November 2012

This volume is the second attempt by a joint international research team (consisting of Bulgarian, Chinese, Russian and American ethnologists) to contribute to the domain of ecological anthropology. The editors

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 36,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2017

As a well balanced and fully illustrated introductory text, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the physical, technological and social components of natural disaster. The main disaster-producing agents are