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Japan's March 2011 Disaster and Moral Grit - Our Inescapable In-between (Hardcover): Michael C. Brannigan Japan's March 2011 Disaster and Moral Grit - Our Inescapable In-between (Hardcover)
Michael C. Brannigan
R3,709 R2,612 Discovery Miles 26 120 Save R1,097 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Japan's March 11, 2011 triple horror of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown is its worst catastrophe since Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Recovery remains an ongoing ordeal. Japan's Responses to the March 2011 Disaster: Our Inescapable In-between uncovers the pivotal role of longstanding cultural worldviews and their impact on responses to this gut-wrenching disaster. Through unpacking the pivotal notion in Japanese ethics of aidagara, or "in-betweenness," it offers testament to a deep-rooted sense of community. Accounts from survivors, victims' families, key city officials, and volunteers reveal a remarkable fiber of moral grit and resilience that sustains Japan's common struggle to rally and carve a future with promise and hope. Calamities snatch us out of the mundane and throw us into the intensity of the moment. They challenge our moral fiber. Trauma, individual and collective, is the uninvited litmus test of character, personal and social. Ultimately, whether a society rightfully recovers from disaster has to do with its degree of connectedness, the embodied physical, interpersonal, face-to-face engagement we have with each other. As these stories bring to light, along with Michael Brannigan's extensive research, personal encounters with survivors, and experience as a volunteer in Japan's stricken areas, our degree of connectedness determines how we in the long run weather the storm, whether the storm is natural, technological, or human. Ultimately, it illustrates that how we respond to and recover after the storm hinges upon how we are with each other before the storm.

Disaster Management: Risk Assessment and Analysis (Hardcover): Alfred Scott Disaster Management: Risk Assessment and Analysis (Hardcover)
Alfred Scott
R3,521 R3,183 Discovery Miles 31 830 Save R338 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Disaster and Development - The Politics of Humanitarian Aid (Paperback): Neil Middleton, Phil O'Keefe Disaster and Development - The Politics of Humanitarian Aid (Paperback)
Neil Middleton, Phil O'Keefe
R810 Discovery Miles 8 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As "natural" disasters increase in frequency and scale, the cost of humanitarian assistance elbows development budgets aside. Catastrophes force aid agencies to look for immediate relief for the victims of apparently no-fault natural disasters. But how far is it possible to view such disasters as natural? This text argues that we allow ourselves to ignore the political dimensions of humanitarian aid and disaster relief, which operate as part of a far wider global battle for resources and markets. It highlights the links between disaster, aid, development and relief, placing case studies in the context of the globalization of the economy, the "free" market ideology of the industrialized nations, the rapacity of financial short-termism and the rise of new forms of colonialism.;The book examines seven recent and, in some cases, continuing major disasters, and analyzes the political agendas that can be said to be common to all these disasters. It then puts forward a political framework for humanitarian aid, reviewing the possible consequences, the political issues to be addressed and possible ways forward.

HBO's Treme and Post-Katrina Catharsis - The Mediated Rebirth of New Orleans (Hardcover): Dominique Gendrin, Catherine... HBO's Treme and Post-Katrina Catharsis - The Mediated Rebirth of New Orleans (Hardcover)
Dominique Gendrin, Catherine Dessinges, Shearon Roberts; Foreword by Dave Walker; Contributions by Gregory Adamo, …
R2,789 Discovery Miles 27 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, outsiders will have two versions of the Katrina experience. One version will be the images they recall from news coverage of the aftermath. The other will be the intimate portrayal of the determination of New Orleans residents to rebuild and recover their lives. HBO's Treme offers outsiders an inside look into why New Orleanians refused to abandon a place that many questioned should not be rebuilt after the levees failed. This critically acclaimed series expanded the boundaries of television making in its format, plot, casting, use of music, and realism-in-fictionalized-TV. However, Treme is not just a story for the outside gaze on New Orleans. It was a very local, collaborative experience where the show's creators sought to enlist the city in a commemorative project. Treme allowed many in the city who worked as principals, extras, and who tuned in as avid viewers to heal from the devastation of the disaster as they experimented with art, imitating life, imitating art. This book examines the impact of HBOs Treme not just as television making, but in the sense in which television provides a window to our worlds. The book pulls together scholarship in media, communications, gender, area studies, political economy, critical studies, African American studies and music to explain why Treme was not just about television.

Ten Years after Katrina - Critical Perspectives of the Storm's Effect on American Culture and Identity (Hardcover): Mary... Ten Years after Katrina - Critical Perspectives of the Storm's Effect on American Culture and Identity (Hardcover)
Mary Ruth Marotte, Glenn Jellenik; Contributions by Joseph Donica, Florian Freitag, Kate Horigan, …
R4,174 R2,935 Discovery Miles 29 350 Save R1,239 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hurricane 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 the devastation were quickly reported-and misreported-by media outlets, and a slew of articles and books followed, offering a spectrum of socio-political commentaries and analyses. But beyond the reportage and the commentary, a series of fictional and creative accounts of the Katrina-experience have emerged in various mediums: novels, plays, films, television shows, songs, graphic novels, collections of photographs, and works of creative non-fiction that blur the lines between reportage, memoir, and poetry. The creative outpouring brings to mind Salman Rushdie's observation that, "Man is the storytelling animal, the only creature on earth that tells itself stories to understand what kind of creature it is." This book accepts the urge behind Rushdie's formula: humans tell stories in order to understand ourselves, our world, and our place in it. Indeed, the creative output on Katrina represents efforts to construct a cohesive narrative out of the wreckage of a cataclysmic event. However, this book goes further than merely cataloguing the ways that Katrina narratives support Rushdie's rich claim. This collection represents a concentrated attempt to chart the effects of Katrina on our cultural identity; it seeks to not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but to explore the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it. The body of work that sprung out of Katrina offers a unique critical opportunity to better understand the genres that structure our stories and the ways stories reflect and produce culture and identity. These essays raise new questions about the representative genres themselves. The stories are efforts to represent and understand the human condition, but so are the organizing principles that communicate the stories. That is, Katrina-narratives present an opportunity to interrogate the ways that specific narrative structures inform our understanding and develop our cultural identity. This book offers a critical processing of the newly emerging and diverse canon of Katrina texts.

Societal Transformations and Resilience in Times of Crisis (Hardcover): Ghazala Shoukat, Muhammad Nawaz Tunio Societal Transformations and Resilience in Times of Crisis (Hardcover)
Ghazala Shoukat, Muhammad Nawaz Tunio
R5,795 Discovery Miles 57 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world and left turmoil in every facet of society in its wake. As in-person activities came to an end for public safety, businesses closed, classrooms scrambled to transition online, and society was forever changed. As the pandemic comes to a close, it is essential that researchers take this opportunity to study the changes that have occurred so that society may revive what has been lost and promote resilience should another crisis arise. Societal Transformations and Resilience in Times of Crisis focuses on the revival of societal institutions after events such as natural disasters, pandemics, political turmoil, and global crises, and looks toward building more resilient structures. It contributes novel approaches and provides implications for countries to improve the social system through novel approaches. Covering topics such as employee psychological distress, democracy, and higher education institutions, this premier reference source is a dynamic resource for government officials, community leaders, non-governmental organizations, students and faculty of higher education, sociologists, business executives and managers, human resource managers, researchers, and academicians.

Economic and Natural Disasters since 1900 - A Comparative History (Hardcover): John Singleton Economic and Natural Disasters since 1900 - A Comparative History (Hardcover)
John Singleton
R3,186 Discovery Miles 31 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A crisis is a period of uncertainty that may or may not lead to disaster, depending in part on the capacity of actors to make sense of what is happening and respond effectively. Disasters in different spheres occur and recur at different speeds and in idiosyncratic ways, but in essence they follow the same pattern. In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle - a framework normally used in the context of natural disasters - is equally applicable to the analysis of other types of catastrophe.Employing a modified version of the disaster cycle framework to compare and analyse a range of catastrophes in different spheres, the author draws on ideas from a variety of disciplines including economics and economic history, disaster studies, management, and political science. This unique comparative approach presents case studies of several important disasters: Hurricane Katrina, the First World War, the depression of the early 1930s, Welsh coal mining accidents, the deadly effects of smoking tobacco, and the Global Financial Crisis and Eurozone catastrophe of the early twenty first century. The author argues that economists and economic policy makers routinely misuse the term crisis to describe episodes that ought to be called disasters. This accessible and fascinating exploration will appeal to students and scholars in economic history, disaster studies, management, public policy, and related disciplines. The comparison of crisis and disaster management is also essential reading for policy makers.

Emergency Management: Planning, Assessment and Analysis (Hardcover): Cathy Hogan Emergency Management: Planning, Assessment and Analysis (Hardcover)
Cathy Hogan
R3,436 R3,106 Discovery Miles 31 060 Save R330 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Preppers Survival Handbook - Step By Step Guide to Become Completely Self Sufficient and Survive any Disaster (Hardcover):... The Preppers Survival Handbook - Step By Step Guide to Become Completely Self Sufficient and Survive any Disaster (Hardcover)
Tony Jones
R772 R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tsunami - From Fundamentals to Damage Mitigation (Hardcover): S Mambretti Tsunami - From Fundamentals to Damage Mitigation (Hardcover)
S Mambretti
R3,098 Discovery Miles 30 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A tsunami is a series of water waves caused by the sudden displacement of a large volume of a body of water, typically an ocean. Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other underwater explosions (including detonations of underwater nuclear devices), landslides, glacier calving, meteorite impacts and other disturbances above or below water all have the potential to generate a tsunami. These waves are very different from normal sea waves, because their wavelength is far longer. Large events can generate wave heights of tens of metres and therefore, although the main impact of tsunamis is to coastal areas, their potential destructive power is enormous and they can affect entire ocean basins; the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was among the deadliest natural disasters in human history with over 230,000 people killed in 14 countries bordering the Indian Ocean. Tsunami: from fundamentals to mitigation comprises seven chapters, dealing with the different aspects of the field. The first chapter deals with the different types of tsunami and their historical data. Chapter 2 describes an inverse type solution to find a posteriori of the tsunami waveform.One of the main problems with tsunamis, described in Chapter 3, is how to assess the flooding they produce. Chapter 4 deals with the very important topic of Early Warning Systems. Chapter 5 not only studies the behaviour of RC buildings under the 2011 Japanese Tsunami but puts forward a series of recommendations. One of the most damaging aspects of Tsunamis is the damage to infrastructure and building systems. Chapter 6 discusses this along with providing guideline measures to take in the future. Finally Chapter 7 studies the important problem of health and related issues due to tsunami disasters.

North American Homeland Security - Back to Bilateralism? (Hardcover): Imtiaz Hussain, Satya R. Pattnayak, Anil Hira North American Homeland Security - Back to Bilateralism? (Hardcover)
Imtiaz Hussain, Satya R. Pattnayak, Anil Hira
R2,531 Discovery Miles 25 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Did 9/11 revive a North American guns-butter trade-off? Established in the largest administrative overhaul since World War II, the Department of Homeland Security was charged with keeping the United States safe within a wider security community, but confronted the Washington Consensus-based Western Hemisphere free trade movement, beginning with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and extending to the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) in 2003, to materialize a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) compact. Whether 9/11 restrictions impeded these trade-related thrusts or not, embracing neoliberalism permitted Canada and Mexico to pursue their own initiatives, such as proposing free-trade to the US--Canada in 1985, Mexico in 1990, but, as during the Cold War, security imperatives ultimately prevailed.

This work investigates Canada's and Mexico's Department of Homeland Security responses through three bilateral studies of policy responses along comparative lines, case studies of security and intelligence apparatuses in each of the three countries, and a post-9/11 trilateral assessment. Ultimately, they raise a broader and more critical North American question: Will regional economic integration continue to be trumped by security considerations, as during the Cold War era, and thereby elevate second-best outcomes, or rise above the constraints to reassert the unquenchable post-Cold War thirst for unfettered markets replete with private enterprises, liberal policies, and full-fledged competitiveness?

Unnatural Disasters - Case Studies of Human-Induced Environmental Catastrophes (Hardcover, New): Angus M. Gunn Unnatural Disasters - Case Studies of Human-Induced Environmental Catastrophes (Hardcover, New)
Angus M. Gunn
R2,314 Discovery Miles 23 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This reference resource describes both the scientific background and the economic and social issues that resulted from environmental disasters resulting primarily from human activity. Categorized by the type of tragedy--including coal mine tragedies, dam failures, industrial explosions, and oil spills--this one-stop guide provides students with descriptions of some of the world's most tragic environmental disasters. Entries clearly describe each disaster by defining the cause, the consequences, and the clean-up efforts. Readers will learn who the responsible parties were, the effect on the environment and people living in the immediate area, and the economic impact of each disaster. In addition, the long-term consequences, the likelihood of a repeat disaster in the same area, and the measures that have been taken to prevent a repeat incident are discussed. Entries include the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, the Exxon-Valdez oil spill, the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Crisis in the American Heartland - Disasters & Mental Health in Rural Environments -- An Introduction (Volume 1) (Hardcover):... Crisis in the American Heartland - Disasters & Mental Health in Rural Environments -- An Introduction (Volume 1) (Hardcover)
George W. Doherty; Foreword by Thomas Mitchell
R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Who will step up to meet the challenge of the next rural crisis?
Rural practice presents important yet challenging issues for psychology, especially given uneven population distribution, high levels of need, limited availability of rural services, and ongoing migration to urban centers. It is critical that mental health professionals and first responders in rural areas become aware of recent research, training and approaches to crisis intervention, traumatology, compassion fatigue, disaster mental health, critical incident stress management, post-traumatic stress and related areas in rural environments. Critical issues facing rural areas include:
Physical issues such as land, air, and water resources, cheap food policy, chemicals and pesticides, animal rights, corruption in food marketing and distribution, and land appropriation for energy development. Quality of life issues such as rural America's declining share of national wealth, problems of hunger, education, and rural poverty among rural populations of farmers and ranchers. Direct service issues include the need to accommodate a wide variety of mental health difficulties, client privacy and boundaries, and practical challenges. Indirect service issues include the greater need for diverse professional activities, collaborative work with professionals having different orientations and beliefs, program development and evaluation, and conducting research with few mentors or peer collaborators. Professional training and development issues include lack of specialized relevant courses and placements. Personal issues include limited opportunities for recreation, culture, and lack of privacy.
Doherty's first volume in this new series "Crisis in the American Heartland" explores these and many other issues. Each volume available in trade paper, hardcover, and eBook formats. Social Science: Disasters & Disaster Relief
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Emergency Management and Disaster Response Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships (Hardcover): Marvine Paula Hamner, S Shane... Emergency Management and Disaster Response Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships (Hardcover)
Marvine Paula Hamner, S Shane Stovall, Doaa M Taha, Salah C. Brahimi
R5,500 Discovery Miles 55 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In a world of earthquakes, tsunamis, and terrorist attacks, it is evident that emergency response plans are crucial to solve problems, overcome challenges, and restore and improve communities affected by such negative events. Although the necessity for quick and efficient aid is understood, researchers and professionals continue to strive for the best practices and methodologies to properly handle such significant events. Emergency Management and Disaster Response Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships bridges the gap between the theoretical and the practical components of crisis management and response. By discussing and presenting research on the benefits and challenges of such partnerships, this publication is an essential resource for academicians, practitioners, and researchers interested in understanding the complexities of crisis management and relief through public and private partnerships.

Sudden Sea - The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback): R. A Scotti Sudden Sea - The Great Hurricane of 1938 (Paperback)
R. A Scotti
R491 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

- Many Americans alive today who experienced the Great Hurricane of 1938 firsthand remember the day as the most terrifying of their lives.- SUDDEN SEA is an enthralling addition to the disaster narrative genre, which includes such megahits as "The Perfect Storm, Into Thin Air, and "Isaac's Storm.- The Great Hurricane of 1938 was the most financially destructive storm on record. The estimated cost in today's dollars would exceed $47 billion. Only 5 percent of the losses were covered by insurance.- The hardcover edition has over 35,000 copies in print to date and is in its 3rd printing.- Paperback publication will coincide with the peak of the summer 2004 hurricane season.

Managing Crises and Disasters with Emerging Technologies - Advancements (Hardcover): Murray E Jennex Managing Crises and Disasters with Emerging Technologies - Advancements (Hardcover)
Murray E Jennex
R4,822 Discovery Miles 48 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When a disaster strikes, having every possible resource available is an urgent need for those practitioners and government officials put in charge of aid and recovery to those in need. Managing Crises and Disasters with Emerging Technologies: Advancements offers the most vital, up-to-date research within the field of disaster management technologies. Since the first disaster information network was set up nearly fifteen years ago, information technologies have advanced at an exponential rate, allowing those managing emergencies, crises, and disasters to effectively manage and utilize data in a safe, efficient way. This collection includes research and updates from authors from around the world, with a variety of perspectives and insights into the most cutting edge technology the field has to offer.

Measuring Disaster Preparedness - A Practical Guide to Indicator Development and Application (Hardcover): Margaret R... Measuring Disaster Preparedness - A Practical Guide to Indicator Development and Application (Hardcover)
Margaret R O'Leary
R624 R568 Discovery Miles 5 680 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Measuring Disaster Preparedness" is the seminal work on using measurement to manage the disaster preparation process. Its audience is that diverse group of local leaders and public servants whom communities of various types and sizes will hold to account to plan for, mitigate, and if necessary, respond to natural--and unnatural--disasters.

Written by a seasoned expert with almost two decades of institutional and field experience in indicator development and application, "Measuring Disaster Preparedness "describes the elements of performance measurement, and provides guidance on how to manage the indicator development process, summarize data, and use indicator data to improve readiness.

"Measuring Disaster Preparedness" is an essential resource for all who are involved in working to strengthen the resilience of their communities in the face of unpredictable disasters, including terrorist acts.

Crisis Management - The Art of Success & Failure (Hardcover): Yunus D Saleh Crisis Management - The Art of Success & Failure (Hardcover)
Yunus D Saleh
R665 Discovery Miles 6 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Multidimensional Approach to Local Development and Poverty - Causes, Consequences, and Challenges Post-COVID-19 (Hardcover):... Multidimensional Approach to Local Development and Poverty - Causes, Consequences, and Challenges Post-COVID-19 (Hardcover)
Joao Conrado de Amorim Carvalho, Francisco Espasandin Bustelo, Emmanuel M.C.B. Sabino
R5,784 Discovery Miles 57 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The phenomenon of poverty and its consequences affects the entire world and is on the agenda of many authorities and researchers. The repercussions of the economic and health crisis caused by COVID-19 are perceptible and has led several countries to regress their social indicators to 1990 levels. Economic development and inequality reduction programs have not been able to provide solutions that could minimize the impact of the pandemic on social indicators, even in more advanced economies. The issue prompted authorities to close their borders to avoid displacement, further aggravating regional differences. The phenomenon of poverty, despite being aggravated by the crisis, is recurrent and very harmful in peripheral countries and there seems to be no single solution, as each country faces its specificities, requiring an immersion in its causes and consequences. This book discusses the results of research conducted on the causes of hunger and poverty and how the pandemic has aggravated this problem. It explores the local development initiatives that have been implemented to mitigate the problem and identifies the different causes for the chronic problem of hunger and underdevelopment in the countries studied to present proposals in public policies to intervene, combat and improve poverty situations. It includes points in different scientific areas, such as sociology, economics, management, entrepreneurship, marketing, education, among others, that add to the efforts to combat poverty and current means and methods to modernize countries that are less developed. This book is intended for those who work or study within the scientific fields related to the phenomenon of hunger, poverty and local development, as well as for universities, students, teachers and researchers. Additionally, the book is aimed at policy makers related to the topic under study and practitioners dealing with the problem so that they can utilize the wide range of studies that will be presented in the book, which will also be of interest to the general public.

Red River Floods - Fargo and Moorhead (Hardcover): Terry Shoptaugh Red River Floods - Fargo and Moorhead (Hardcover)
Terry Shoptaugh
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa (Hardcover): John Sorenson Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa (Hardcover)
John Sorenson
R2,887 Discovery Miles 28 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Horn of Africa has suffered repeated disasters: wars, drought, famine, mass refugee movements and environmental decline. This book explains the historical and political background to these crises and outlines the prospects for development in the region. Experts on the Horn cover a broad range of topics, including ethnic conflict, gender and refugees, food security, the survival of pastoralism, the future of independent Eritrea, operations of intelligence agencies and the possibilities for regional co-operation.

Phenomenology in Adaptation Planning - An Empirical Study of Flood-affected People in Kampung Muara Baru Jakarta (Hardcover,... Phenomenology in Adaptation Planning - An Empirical Study of Flood-affected People in Kampung Muara Baru Jakarta (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Hendricus Andy Simarmata
R2,672 R1,996 Discovery Miles 19 960 Save R676 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the planning knowledge that can be gleaned from the experiences of the urban poor, a group frequently affected by floods. Further, it examines the relationship between lifeworld analysis and adaptation planning through the sociology of knowledge, which plays a significant part in determining the adaptation pathway of the urban poor. The book brings together empirical data to translate self-reflective planning theory into the practical context, examines community planning, and enriches the discourse on urban adaptation. Lastly, it provides an adaptation-planning model that can benefit academics, practitioners and policymakers who wish to provide more socially accepted plans.

Waste Wars - Dirty Deals, International Rivalries And The Scandalous Afterlife Of Rubbish (Paperback): Alexander Clapp Waste Wars - Dirty Deals, International Rivalries And The Scandalous Afterlife Of Rubbish (Paperback)
Alexander Clapp
R450 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Save R48 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A riveting investigation into the dark underbelly of the global trash trade - a dirty, multi-billion-dollar industry that almost no one knows exists.

The total mass of the world's manmade materials has recently come to equal the entire biomass of the earth. This means we are living in a world where man's ability to create garbage, or eventual garbage, has surpassed the earth's ability to create life. Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing, and disputes about what to do with the tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged in just about every country on earth. Some are border skirmishes, fought to move trash out of one place and dump it into another. Others are waged across thousands of miles.

But no matter the scale, one thing is true about almost all of them: few people have any idea they're happening. For every story about how a commodity gets hustled through world supply chains for consumption, there exists another untold story about how it gets discarded for renewal - or for eternity. Some trash gets tossed onto roadsides. Some gets burned for fuel. Some gets buried underground. But most of it lives a hot potato second life, getting bartered, sold, re-sold, smuggled, salvaged, re-purposed from one country or mafia or corporation to another, with devastating consequences for millions of people.

Waste Wars tells the stories of five trash conflicts being waged in different corners of the world right now. They are representative but rich strands in the story of our planet's runaway garbage pandemic. In each theater, a different commodity is being smuggled or imported or bartered. Sometimes there is a winner; sometimes there is a loser. And in each theater a different political dilemma - from global inequality to the pitfalls of green politics - is presenting itself through the seemingly pedestrian medium of trash. A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, Waste Wars exposes the multi-billion-dollar global garbage trade in which almost everyone in the world unknowingly engages and asks: If the handling of its trash reveals deeper truths about a particular society, what does the global business of trash say about our world today?

Racing the Storm - Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina (Hardcover): Hillary Potter Racing the Storm - Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina (Hardcover)
Hillary Potter; Contributions by Terri Adams-Fuller, Meera Adya, Duke Austin, Angela P. Cole, …
R3,521 R3,157 Discovery Miles 31 570 Save R364 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit land and gravely affected the lives of many people in the states along the Gulf Coast. Katrina went beyond demonstrating the devastating natural effects of a hurricane by exposing the continuing significance of race relations and racial stereotyping in U.S. society.Racing the Storm serves to highlight the race-based perceptions of and responses to Katrina survivors by governmental entities, volunteers, the media, and the general public. Scholars from a variety of disciplines take on the task of analyzing the social phenomena and racial implications surrounding Hurricane Katrina.

Shakes and Quakes Natural Disasters that Change the Earth Science Book 5th Grade Children's Earth Sciences Books... Shakes and Quakes Natural Disasters that Change the Earth Science Book 5th Grade Children's Earth Sciences Books (Hardcover)
Baby Professor
R748 R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Save R89 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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