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Disasters are difficult to manage for many reasons: the immediacy
of the event, magnitude of the event, lack of evidence-based
practices, and the limited usefulness of many developed protocols.
Consequently, combining academic approaches with realistic and
practical recommendations continues to be an underdeveloped aspect
of disaster texts. The Oxford American Handbook of Disaster
Medicine offers a functional blend of science with pragmatism.
Approached from a real-world perspective, the handbook is a
portable guide that provides sufficient scientific background to
facilitate broader application and problem solving yet approach the
topic in a prioritized fashion, supporting rapid understanding and
utilization. Contributing authors are clinical and public health
providers with disaster experience. This book encompasses the
entire scope of disaster medicine from general concepts and
fundamental principles to both manmade and natural threats.
The world's first independent black republic, Haiti was forged in
the fire of history's only successful slave revolution. Yet more
than two hundred years later, the full promise of that revolution -
a free country and a free people - remains unfulfilled. Home for
more than a decade to one of the world's largest UN peacekeeping
forces, Haiti's tumultuous political culture - buffeted by coups
and armed political partisans - combined with economic inequality
and environmental degradation to create immense difficulties even
before the devastating 2010 earthquake killed tens of thousands of
people. This grim tale, however, is not the whole story. In this
moving and detailed history, Michael Deibert, who has spent two
decades reporting on Haiti, chronicles the heroic struggles of
Haitians to build their longed-for country in the face of
overwhelming odds. Based on hundreds of interviews with Haitian
political leaders, international diplomats, peasant advocates and
gang leaders, as well as ordinary Haitians, Deibert's book provides
a vivid, complex and challenging analysis of Haiti's recent
history.
Climate change and natural disasters have always been hot topics of
discussion and debate from the living rooms of citizens to meetings
to civil society organizations' candlelight vigils. The consensus
from the scientific and academic community on the threat of climate
change clashes with the lack of consensus from business and
government leaders, while citizens question the scientific data on
climate change and if it really affects their cities. Many cities
have stepped up to provide united experience-backed testimonies
explaining this threat and how climate change contributes to
natural disasters, habitat destruction, and food shortage. This
book brings together lucid essays and case studies from both
scholars and individuals on the front lines who manage
international collaborations, lead local communities, provide
services for people impacted by disasters, and drive policy change
that will lead to a sustainable future.
Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries,
severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly
interdependent systems of transportation, communication, energy,
and finance. In this important book, Louise Comfort provides an
unprecedented examination of how twelve communities in nine
countries responded to destructive earthquakes between 1999 and
2015. And many of the book's lessons can also be applied to other
large-scale risks. The Dynamics of Risk sets the global problem of
seismic risk in the framework of complex adaptive systems to
explore how the consequences of such events ripple across
jurisdictions, communities, and organizations in complex societies,
triggering unexpected alliances but also exposing social, economic,
and legal gaps. The book assesses how the networks of organizations
involved in response and recovery adapted and acted collectively
after the twelve earthquakes it examines. It describes how advances
in information technology enabled some communities to anticipate
seismic risk better and to manage response and recovery operations
more effectively, decreasing losses. Finally, the book shows why
investing substantively in global information infrastructure would
create shared awareness of seismic risk and make postdisaster
relief more effective and less expensive. The result is a landmark
study of how to improve the way we prepare for and respond to
earthquakes and other disasters in our ever-more-complex world.
Hurricane Katrina inflicted damage on a scale unprecedented in
American history, nearly destroying a major city and killing
thousands of its citizens. With far too little help from
indifferent, incompetent government agencies, the poor bore the
brunt of the disaster. The residents of traditionally impoverished
and minority communities suffered incalculable losses and endured
unimaginable conditions. And the few facilities that did exist to
help victims quickly became miserable, dangerous places. Now, the
victims of Hurricane Katrina find themselves spread across the
United States, far from the homes they left and faced with the
prospect of starting anew. Families are struggling to secure jobs,
homes, schools, and a sense of place in unfamiliar surroundings.
Meanwhile, the rebuilding of their former home remains frustrating
out of their hands. This bracing read brings readers to the heart
of the disaster and its aftermath as those who survived it speak
with candor and eloquence of their lives then and now.
Financial Times' best business books of the year, 2018 'Endlessly
fascinating, brimming with insight, and more fun than a book about
failure has any right to be.' - Charles Duhigg, author of The Power
of Habit What can we learn from our most disastrous failures? An
accidental overdose in a state-of-the-art hospital. The Starbucks
publicity stunt that spectacularly backfired. The mix-up at the
2017 Oscars ceremony. As technology rapidly advances, it brings
with it an explosion of complexity that can trip us up. Meltdown
uses real-life examples to reveal how errors in thinking,
perception, and design lie behind both our everyday mistakes and
our most terrifying disasters. It reveals how a five-minute
exercise can prevent billion-dollar catastrophes, why teams with
fewer experts are better at managing risk, and why diversity is one
of our best safeguards against failure. This eye-opening book will
change the way you see our complex world - and your place within
it. 'Essential reading.' - Martin Ford, bestselling author of Rise
of the Robots
'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES
'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction'
SCOTSMAN On December 28th 1879, the night of the Great Storm, the
Tay Bridge collapsed, along with the train that was crossing, and
everyone on board... This is the true story of that disastrous
night, told from multiple viewpoints: The station master waiting
for the train to arrive - who sees the approaching lights simply
vanish. The bored young boys watching from their bedroom window who
witness the disaster. The dreamer who designed the bridge which
eventually destroyed him. The old highlanders who professed the
bridge doomed from the outset. The young woman on the ill-fated
train, carrying a love letter from the man she hoped to marry...
THE HIGH GIRDERS is a vivid, dramatic reconstruction of the
ill-omened man-made catastrophe of the Tay Bridge disaster - and
its grim aftermath.
Preventing War and Promoting Peace: A Guide for Health
Professionals is an interdisciplinary study of how pervasive
militarism creates a propensity for war through the influence of
academia, economic policy, the defense industry, and the news
media. Comprising contributions by academics and practitioners from
the fields of public health, medicine, nursing, law, sociology,
psychology, political science, and peace and conflict studies, as
well as representatives from organizations active in war
prevention, the book emphasizes the underlying preventable causes
of war, particularly militarism, and focuses on the methods health
professionals can use to prevent war. Preventing War and Promoting
Peace provides hard-hitting facts about the devastating health
effects of war and a broad perspective on war and health,
presenting a new paradigm for the proactive engagement of health
professions in the prevention of war and the promotion of peace.
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This fascinating book provides a comprehensive overview of the
extensive post-disaster mental health recovery program implemented
after the 1988 Armenian earthquake. Covering the program's
evolution, from the initial acute phase of clinical fieldwork, to
its expansion as a three-year teaching and training program for
local therapists, to the building of mental health clinics in
devastated cities. Featuring poignant memoirs detailing the daily
challenges and rewards of working in the trenches, the book
presents a conceptual framework that can guide post-disaster
clinical and research efforts, lessons learned from this work and
other disasters, and highlights recent advances in disaster
psychiatry. This school-based intervention program has informed
subsequent disaster response efforts in many countries and has
provided clinically relevant cutting-edge research findings from
longitudinal and treatment outcomes studies conducted over 25
years. Essential reading for psychologists, psychiatrists, social
workers and other mental health professionals and those working for
relief organizations following disasters.
From epidemics and earthquakes to tornados and tidal waves, the overwhelming power of nature never ceases to instill humankind with both terror and awe. As natural disasters continue to claim human lives and leave destruction in their wake, Perils of a Restless Planet examines our attempts to understand and anticipate such phenomena. Now available in paperback, this highly acclaimed book draws on actual events from ancient to present times. Coverage focuses on basic scientific inquiry, technological innovation and, ultimately, public policy to provide a lucid and riveting look at the natural events that have shaped our view of natural disasters. While shedding light on the elusive quality of nature's intermittent tantrums and the limits scientific study and laboratory replication impose on our understanding of its mercurial ways, the author extrapolates from the history of science to suggest how we may someday learn to warn and protect the vulnerable populations on our small, tempestuous planet. Compelling and informative, this book will find readers both in and outside of the scientific community.
The peaceful town of Holmfirth, now famous for its connection with
the BBC's comedy series 'Last of the Summer Wine', has had its
tranquility torn apart on two separate occasions. This book retells
the stories of two devastating floods which ripped apart the heart
of the town. The 1852 flood was caused, in part, by negligence of
the reservoir builders, and the 1944 flood was due partly to a
consequence of these lessons not being learnt. The Holmfirth Floods
provides a fascinating insight into everyday life in the town
before, during and after these disasterous events, accompanied
throughout by maps, sketches and photographs.
Politicians, economists, and the media have put forth no shortage
of explanations for the mounting problem of wealth inequality - a
loss of working class jobs, a rise in finance-driven speculative
capitalism, and a surge of tax policy decisions that benefit the
ultra-rich, among others. While these arguments focus on the macro
problems that contribute to growing inequality, they overlook one
innocuous but substantial contributor to the widening divide: the
explosion of fees accompanying virtually every transaction that
people make. As Devin Fergus shows in Land of the Fee, these
perfectly legal fees are buried deep within the verbose agreements
between vendors and consumers - agreements that few people fully
read or comprehend. The end effect, Fergus argues, is a massive
transfer of wealth from the many to the few: large banking
corporations, airlines, corporate hotel chains, and other entities
of vast wealth. Fergus traces the fee system from its origins in
the deregulatory wave of the late 1970s to the present, placing the
development within the larger context of escalating income
inequality. He organizes the book around four of the basics of
existence: housing, work, transportation, and schooling. In each
category, industry lobbyists successfully influenced legislatures
into transforming the law until surreptitious fees became the norm.
The average consumer is now subject to a dizzying array of charges
in areas like mortgage contracts, banking transactions, auto
insurance rates, college payments, and payday loans. The fees that
accompany these transactions are not subject to usury laws and have
effectively redistributed wealth from the lower and middle classes
to ultra-wealthy corporations and the individuals at their
pinnacles. By exposing this predatory and nearly invisible system
of fees, Land of the Fee will reshape our understanding of wealth
inequality in America.
When a perfect storm of personal, professional, and natural
disaster threw Mike Mantel into a dark night of the soul, he
embarked on a journey through his own life and around the world to
rediscover God's presence through the diverse body of Christ. In
Thirsting for Living Water, Mantel invites readers to join him on
this adventure and open their eyes to their own stories of God's
faithfulness. It's an invitation to see where God is already at
work: at home, among neighbors, and to the ends of the earth. Here
is a story of the holistic gospel, driven by compassion, justice,
and mercy, with Jesus at the center. Here is an inspiring vision of
a unified, global church-in which each of us has a vital role to
play.
The length of Aegean arc in south-west Turkey has been deter mined
by the use of intermediate focal depth earthquakes which occurred
between 1900-1985 in the south-west of Turkey (34.00- 38.00 Nand
27.00-32.00 E). Intermediate focal depth earthqua kes in south-west
Turkey revealed the presence of a seismic Benioff zone caused by
underthrusting of the African litho spheric plate by the Aegean
arc. In order to determine the geometry of underthrustin%detailed
epicenter maps of the in termediate depth earthquakes in south-west
of Turkey were pre pared. It is known that these earthquakes
brought great harm in the past. Investigation of time distribution
of them will help to predict the occurrence of them in the future.
These intermediate focal depth earthquakes can be differenti ated
from deep ones by their micro- and macroseismic proper ties.
Papazachos (1969) and Comninakis (1970) found that the foci of
these earthquakes are in a zone underthrusting exten ding from the
East Mediterranean to the Aegean arc. Morgan (1968) and Le pichori
(1968) defined three plates which are important in East
Mediterranean tectonics. These are the Afri ca, Arabic and Eurasian
plates. They define wide earthquake belt on the boundaries between
the African and Eurasian plate."
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