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Flirting with Disaster: Why Accidents Are Rarely Accidental
Save Your Ass: An Illustrated Handbook for Surviving a Natural Disaster, Terrorist Attack, Pandemic or Catastrophic Collapse
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
Uncharted Territory: Land, Conflict and Humanitarian Action
Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Disaster Preparedness
di Maurice A. Ramirez, John Hedtke
Alpha Books, August 2009  
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Disaster Preparedness
Ready for anything. Both natural and man-made disasters seem to occur with greater frequency. While these disasters can be devastating, the...
Disaster Response
di David Robson
Referencepoint Press, August 2009  
Disaster Response
Experts estimate thatglobal disaster response reaches at least 30million people each year and yet needs always seem to exceed resources....
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
di Rebecca Solnit
Viking Books, August 2009  
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster, people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? Award-winning author Solnit...
The Homeowner's Hurricane Handbook
di Bob Stearns
Skyhorse Publishing, July 2009  
The Homeowner's Hurricane Handbook
Written by a former Navy weather officer, this timely work is a how-to guide for dealing with hurricanes--before, during, and after they...
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - And Why
di Amanda Ripley
Three Rivers Press (CA), June 2009  
The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - And Why
In her quest to discern how people may react in the face of emergency or disaster, Ripley traces human responses to some of recent history's...
Heads Up!: Early Warning Systems for Climate-, Water- And Weather-Related Hazards
Redattore Michael H. Glantz
United Nations, June 2009  
Heads Up!: Early Warning Systems for Climate-, Water- And Weather-Related Hazards
The forces of nature can have damaging and deadly consequences for societies and ecosystems that stand in their path. Early warning systems...
Survival: How a Culture of Preparedness Can Save You and Your Family from Disasters
di Russel L. Honore
Atria Books, May 2009  
Survival: How a Culture of Preparedness Can Save You and Your Family from Disasters
In this riveting call to action by one of the leaders who managed the recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, General Honor...
Terrorism Handbook for Operational Responders
di Armando Bevelacqua, Richard Stilp
Cengage Learning, March 2009, 3a ed.  
Terrorism Handbook for Operational Responders
The only reference of its kind for emergency responders, this updated book is a guide to the most significant points that surround the...
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
di Neil Strauss
Harper Paperbacks, March 2009  
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
Combining wit and journalistic detail, "Plan B" follows Strauss's journey toward obtaining a second citizenship in a small Caribbean...
Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Redattore Robert D. Bullard, Beverly Wright
Westview Press, February 2009  
Race, Place, and Environmental Justice After Hurricane Katrina: Struggles to Reclaim, Rebuild, and Revitalize New Orleans and the Gulf Coast
Analyzing the immediate and long-term repercussions of Hurricane Katrina, the essays in this volume expose the racial disparities that exist...
The Humanitarian Response Index: Donor Accountability in Humanitarian Action
Prodotto da DARA
Palgrave MacMillan, January 2009  
The Humanitarian Response Index: Donor Accountability in Humanitarian Action
The purpose of this annual report is to develop an index of good humanitarian donorship that will measure donors' effectiveness against...
Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa
Redattore Mark Pelling, Ben Wisner
Earthscan Publications, January 2009  
Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa
The book addresses three inter-related themes: the urban environment; urban governance and urban risk and its reduction. Its focus is on...
Catastrophe: Law, Politics, and the Humanitarian Impulse
Redattore Austin Sarat, Javier Lezaun
University of Massachusetts Press, December 2009  
Catastrophe: Law, Politics, and the Humanitarian Impulse
Monitoring Emergency Obstetric Care: A Handbook
di World Health Organization
World Health Organization, November 2009  
Monitoring Emergency Obstetric Care: A Handbook
Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe
di Florin Diacu
Princeton University Press, November 2009  
Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe
Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina
Redattore Amy Koritz, George J. Sanchez
University of Michigan Press, September 2009  
Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina
Airborne Radioactive Contamination in Inhabited Areas
Redattore Kasper G. Andersson
Elsevier Science & Technology, September 2009  
Airborne Radioactive Contamination in Inhabited Areas
Forets Tropicales Humides Du Cameroun: Une Decennie de Reformes
di Giuseppe Topa, Alain Karsenty
World Bank Publications, July 2009  
Forets Tropicales Humides Du Cameroun: Une Decennie de Reformes
Worst-Case Scenarios
di Cass R. Sunstein
Harvard University Press, May 2009  
Worst-Case Scenarios
Terror Bombing: The Global Urban Threat
di Hayim Granot, Jay Levinson
Key Publishing House, March 2009  
Terror Bombing: The Global Urban Threat
Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster
di Keith Smith, David N. Petley
Routledge, March 2009, 5a ed.  
Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster
Disasters
Redattore Stefan Kiesbye
Greenhaven Press, March 2009  
Disasters
Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies
Redattore Arnold M. Howitt, Herman B. Leonard
CQ Press, February 2009  
Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies
Persuasive Prevention: Towards a Mechanism for Implementing Article 4(h) and R2p by the African Union
di Dan Kuwali
Nordic Africa Institute, August 2009  
Persuasive Prevention: Towards a Mechanism for Implementing Article 4(h) and R2p by the African Union
Dan Kuwali presents a fresh perspective to the challenge of international humanitarian interventionism in Africa from an international law...
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