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From Ducks, Newburyport to zombie movies and the Fast and Furious franchise, how climate anxiety permeates our culture
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The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Acute famine... Læs mere
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Explaining the essential political character of hunger, Young exposes popular myths and identifies positive changes where prevailing inequalities and ideologies are challenged, making a world where hunger is history foreseeable.
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What is a Disaster? sets out the huge conceptual differences that exist concerning what a disaster is, and presents important implications for both theory, study and practice.
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This book explores the role played by catastrophic natural events in generating cultural change. Featuring famous events like the eruption of Vesuvius it is extremely useful to academics, scholars and professionals.
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Authorative and comprehensive, this book makes clear that there are links between global scale processes and local experiences of disaster, but underlies the difficulty of attributing blame for individual disasters on specific global pressures.
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This book provides accessible analyses of disasters and development, addressing planning and response activities that accompany this field. Social, economic and environmental hazards, vulnerabilities and risks are examined in an interdisciplinary and authoritative way.
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Rebuilding After Disasters emphasizes the role of the built environment in the re-establishment of lives and sustainable livelihoods after disasters. Expert contributors explain the principal challenges facing professionals and practitioners in the building industry.
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This book examines the sociological consequences of disaster relief and recovery and its impact on the... Læs mere
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This book deals with post-crisis reconstruction and recovery work in Sri Lanka after the tsunami of December 2004, and presently in a situation of war. This book was published as a special issue of Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift.
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In this volume, editors Naim Kapucu, Christopher V. Hawkins, and Fernando I. Rivera gather an impressive array of scholars to shed new light on how communities can increase their resiliency through policy interventions and governance mechanisms in the United States and worldwide.