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Risk Reduction, Resilience and Recovery of Natural Hazards by Harry Jones 9781682865248
RRP: $228.38Booksplease Price: $225.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682865248Author Harry JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 233Imprint Syrawood Publishing HousePublisher Syrawood Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 830g -
Ten Years after Katrina: Critical Perspectives of the Storm's Effect on American Culture and Identity by Mary Ruth Marotte 9781498508803
Booksplease Price: $108.57Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast in 2005, leaving an unparalleled trail of physical destruction. In addition to that damage, the storm wrought massive psychological and cultural trauma on Gulf Coast residents and on America as a whole. Details of... -
Disaster Archipelago: Locating Vulnerability and Resilience in the Philippines by Maria Carinnes P. Alejandria 9781498569958
Booksplease Price: $79.40Images of the devastation wreaked by typhoons, flooding, earthquakes and drought in the Philippines circulate globally as an important part of disaster discourses. This collection seeks to move beyond these simplistic representations of calamity by... -
Emergency Management: Key Concepts and Strategies by Tim Foreman 9781682865255
RRP: $234.15Booksplease Price: $228.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781682865255Author Tim ForemanFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint Syrawood Publishing HousePublisher Syrawood Publishing HouseWeight(grams)... -
New Orleans City Park: From Tragedy to Triumph by Bob Becker 9781455627417
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $55.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455627417Author Bob BeckerFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Disaster Management: Risk Reduction, Response Strategy and Recovery by Harry Jones 9781632399274
RRP: $223.65Booksplease Price: $197.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632399274Author Harry JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 239Imprint Callisto ReferencePublisher Callisto ReferenceWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 254mm *... -
Black Beaches and Bayous: The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster by Lisa A. Eargle 9780761859789
Booksplease Price: $96.08Black Beaches and Bayous: The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster provides a multidisciplinary, international perspective on one of the major disaster events within the United States during the last ten years. Scholars from various disciplines... -
Rethinking Disaster Recovery: A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective by Jeannie Haubert 9781498501224
Booksplease Price: $87.74Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality,... -
Disaster Management: Planning, Response and Recovery by Harry Jones 9781641162760
RRP: $226.80Booksplease Price: $199.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641162760Author Harry JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Callisto ReferencePublisher Callisto ReferenceWeight(grams) 807gDimensions(mm) 276mm *... -
Essentials in Emergency Management: Including the All-Hazards Approach by Brian J. Gallant 9780865876323
Booksplease Price: $171.09Written for both paid and volunteer emergency managers, Essentials in Emergency Management examines why preparing a basic emergency plan, or "all hazards" plan, for a city, town, or state improves a community's ability to respond more quickly and... -
Savage Sand and Surf: The Hurricane Sandy Disaster by Lisa A. Eargle 9780761865445
Booksplease Price: $78.58It was almost November 2012 when Hurricane Sandy, a late arrival in an otherwise quiet tropical season, slammed into the Mid-Atlantic US coastline. Millions of residents were plunged into darkness and billions of dollars in property and infrastructure... -
Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy by Julia Nevarez 9781498543774
Booksplease Price: $83.58Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy is a comprehensive account of relevant debates, conceptualizations, and practical considerations for the governance of disaster at multiple scales. In... -
Crisis as an Opportunity: Organizational and Community Responses to Disasters by Roni Kaufman 9780761856214
Booksplease Price: $85.66Natural and human-made disasters appear to be increasing in frequency and scope, commanding extensive media attention. Growing sensitivity to issues of preparedness and community response has created a greater interest among academics and practitioners. ... -
Cities and Flooding: A Guide to Integrated Urban Flood Risk Management for the 21st Century by Abhas Kumar Jha 9780821388662
Booksplease Price: $70.85The guide serves as a primer for decision and policy makers, technical specialists, central, regional and local government officials, and concerned stakeholders in the community sector, civil society and non-governmental organizations, and the private... -
Life Beyond the Tohoku Disasters: Autonomy and Adaptability in Coastal Japan by Alyne E Delaney 9781793616555
Booksplease Price: $181.50This book explores, in rich, ethnographic detail, the lives of a group of Japanese fishers and community residents in coastal Japan in the aftermath of the tsunami generated from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Focused on one town in Miyagi... -
Tossed to the Wind: Stories of Hurricane Maria Survivors by Maria T. Padilla 9781683401506
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $36.67After the storm, a community comes togetherFramed by the stories of Hurricane Maria evacuees, Tossed to the Wind is the gripping account of the wreckage, despair, and displacement left in the wake of one of the deadliest natural disasters on U.S. soil... -
Managing Hurricane Katrina: Lessons from a Megacrisis by Arjen Boin 9780807170441
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $64.11The government's response to Hurricane Katrina, one of the most devastating natural disasters in U.S. history, suffered numerous criticisms. Nearly every assessment pointed to failure, from evaluations of President George W. Bush, FEMA, and the... -
Public Safety Diving by Walt Hendrick 9780912212944
RRP: $98.70Booksplease Price: $97.69Written for instructors, dive team captains, surface teams, and underwater personnel alike, this book offers definitive information on procedures for safe operations, proper methods of training, and how to make appropriate purchasing decisions... -
Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention by United Nations 9780821380505
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $83.90Earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms are natural hazards, but unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omission and commission. Every disaster is unique, but each exposes actions by individuals and governments at... -
Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina by Amy Koritz 9780472033522
RRP: $52.40Booksplease Price: $51.05"Civic engagement has been underrated and overlooked. Koritz and Sanchez illuminate the power of what community engagement through art and culture revitalization can do to give voice to the voiceless and a sense of being to those displaced."---Sonia... -
The Environmental Crusaders: Confronting Disaster, Mobilizing Community by Myron Peretz Glazer 9780271017754
Booksplease Price: $167.79The Environmental Crusaders highlights citizens in Israel, the former Czechoslovakia, and the United States who challenged serious ecological problems and demanded a safe environment and an accountable society. The men and women portrayed here confronted... -
Perspectives on Drought and Famine in Nigeria by G. Jan Van Apeldoorn 9781032748047
RRP: $182.68Booksplease Price: $161.55Originally published in 1981, this book provided the first concise and integrated account of the Nigerian crisis and uncovered the basic cause of the increasing vulnerability of the Nigerian rural poor during the 1970s to the effects of drought, in order... -
Rethinking Disaster Recovery: A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective by Jeannie Haubert 9781498501200
Booksplease Price: $216.53Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality,... -
Administration and the Other: Explorations of Diversity and Marginalization in the Political Administrative State by Kyle Farmbry 9780739119112
Booksplease Price: $98.15Administration and the Other examines the social construction of groups of people and resultant policy impacts in the discourse of the American Republic from before its founding to the present. The book suggests that from pre-revolutionary interactions... -
Building Something Better: Environmental Crises and the Promise of Community Change by Stephanie A. Malin 9781978823693
RRP: $123.90Booksplease Price: $101.83As the turmoil of interlinked crises unfolds across the world-from climate change to growing inequality to the rise of authoritarian governments-social scientists examine what is happening and why. Can communities devise alternatives to the systems that... -
The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. by Paul S. Adams 9781793628015
Booksplease Price: $79.59The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. examines how natural disasters impact social inequality in the United States. The contributors cover topics such as criminal justice, demographics, economics,... -
Litigating the Pandemic: Disaster Cascades in Court by Susan M. Sterett 9781512824834
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $57.54As officials scrambled in 2020 to manage the spread of COVID, the reverberations of the crisis reached well beyond immediate public health concerns. The governance problems that emerged in the pandemic would be problems in other climate-related... -
Early Warning-Based Multihazard and Disaster Management Systems by Syed Hyder Abbas Musavi 9781032653617
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $100.38This book describes in detail disaster management principles with applications through software and early warning systems. The aim is to introduce the concept of advanced technology for disaster management. Hence, it starts with a basic introduction and... -
Emergency Relief Operations by Kevin M. Cahill 9780823222407
RRP: $62.98Booksplease Price: $54.22Early Warning Systems: From Surveillance to Risk Assessment to Action Ted R. Gurr and Barbara Harff Initial Response to Complex Emergencies and Natural Disasters Ed Tsui Evidence-Based Health Assessment Process in Complex Emergencies Frederick M... -
International Food Aid: Programs, Donors & World Food Program Controls by John Di Corrado 9781624172090
RRP: $354.88Booksplease Price: $238.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624172090Author John Di CorradoFormat HardbackPage Count 134Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 342g -
Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise Strategy & Implementation Plan by Niel A. Harris 9781628088618
RRP: $335.98Booksplease Price: $226.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628088618Author Niel A HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 338g -
Catastrophic Declaration Proposal For National Disasters & Emergencies by Landon West 9781619422643
RRP: $298.18Booksplease Price: $198.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619422643Author Landon WestFormat HardbackImprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 342g -
In the Wake of Disaster: Religious Responses to Terrorism and Catastrophe by Harold G Koenig 9781932031997
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75In a timely book with a powerful and persuasive message, Dr. Harold G. Koenig addresses federal, state, and local government policy leaders, urging them to more fully integrate religious organizations into the formal disaster response system, and he... -
Disasters in Paradise: Natural Hazards, Social Vulnerability, and Development Decisions by Amanda D. Concha-Holmes 9780739177372
Booksplease Price: $191.92Long considered ground zero for global climate change in the United States, Florida presents the perfect case study for disaster risk and prevention. Building on the idea that disasters are produced by historical and contemporary social processes as well... -
Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina by Amy Koritz 9780472116980
Booksplease Price: $139.10"Civic engagement has been underrated and overlooked. Koritz and Sanchez illuminate the power of what community engagement through art and culture revitalization can do to give voice to the voiceless and a sense of being to those displaced."---Sonia... -
Food Assistance Programs & Measures of Food Security in the United States by Eugene Marshall 9781622578498
RRP: $298.18Booksplease Price: $198.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622578498Author Eugene MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 145Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 334g -
Storm Chasers: The Wild and Violent Skies of Kansas by Christopher Collura 9781634992169
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $32.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634992169Author Christopher ColluraFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint America Through TimePublisher America Through TimeWeight(grams)... -
Japan after 3/11: Global Perspectives on the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Meltdown by Pradyumna P. Karan 9780813167305
Booksplease Price: $97.27On March 11, 2011, an underwater earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan, triggered one of the most devastating tsunamis of a generation. The aftermath was overwhelming: communities were reduced to rubble, thousands of people were missing or... -
When the Waves Came by Michael Larson 9781634059817
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.97"An extraordinary accomplishment and an important piece of writing..." Marie Mutsuki Mockett, author of Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye "MW Larson has made an important contribution to the English-speaking world's understanding of... -
The Culture of Disaster by Marie-Helene Huet 9780226358215
Booksplease Price: $113.23From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared...