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  • Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society

    by John F. Shroder ...
    Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard exposure. Societies that strengthen themselves, or are strengthened, mitigate decline and resultant further exposure to what are largely ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Environment, Health and Population Displacement

    Development and Change in Mozambique's Diarrhoeal Disease Ecology

    by Andrew E. Collins ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1998, this book contributes to our understanding of emergent and resurgent infectious diseases and health ecology in developing areas through detailed spatial and temporal analysis of recent cholera and bacillary dysentery epidemics in Mozambique. The book examines the influence of environmental, demographic and socio-economic changes on the nature and context of cholera and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Disaster and Development

    by Andrew E. Collins ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people. Meanwhile the occurrence of disasters alters the scope of development. Whilst a notion of the association of disaster and development is as old as development studies itself, recent decades have produced an intensifying demand for a fuller understanding. Evidence of disaster and development progressing together has ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Climate Change, Disasters, Sustainability Transition and Peace in the Anthropocene

    Edited by Hans Günter Brauch, Úrsula Oswald Spring, Andrew E. Collins, Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides insight into Anthropocene-related studies by IPRA’s Ecology and Peace Commission. The first three chapters discuss the linkage between disasters and conflict risk reduction, responses to socio-environmental disasters in high-intensity conflict scenarios and the fragile state of disaster response with a special focus on aid-state-society relations in post-conflict settings. The ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Ecological Hoofprint

    The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock

    by Tony Weis ...
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  • Ghosts of the Tsunami

    Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone

    by Richard Lloyd Parry ...
    Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Guardian, NPR, GQ, The Economist, Bookforum, and Lit HubThe definitive account of what happened, why, and above all how it felt, when catastrophe hit Japan—by the Japan correspondent of The Times (London) and author of People Who Eat DarknessOn March 11, 2011, a powerful earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of... ... Read more

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  • Let's Explore Japan (Most Famous Attractions in Japan)

    Japan Travel Guide

    by Baby Professor ...
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  • Breach of Faith

    Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City

    by Jed Horne ...
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  • Development Projects Observed

    by Albert O. Hirschman, Michele Alacevich ...
    Series series A Brookings Classic
    Originally published in 1967, the modest and plainly descriptive title of Development Projects Observed is deceptive. Today, it is recognized as the ultimate volume of Hirschman's groundbreaking trilogy on development, and as the bridge to the broader social science themes of his subsequent writings. Though among his lesser-known works, this unassuming tome is one of his most influential.It is in ... Read more

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  • Facing the Wave

    A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami

    by Gretel Ehrlich ...
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  • Why Does It Happen: Tornadoes, Hurricanes and Typhoons

    Natural Disaster Books for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series Book 4 - Why Does It Happen
    Tornadoes, typhoons and hurricanes are weather disturbances that your child may be familiar with based on experience. But does your child know the science behind these events? With this picture book, he/she will! Picture books are informative materials that are shouting to be picked up and read. The illustrations are attention-grabbing and the carefully written quick facts break complex concepts ... Read more

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