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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters > General

Climate Change and Disaster Resilience - Challenges, Actions and Innovations in Urban Planning (Paperback): Joaquin Jay... Climate Change and Disaster Resilience - Challenges, Actions and Innovations in Urban Planning (Paperback)
Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III, Roger L. Kemp, Alan R. Roper
R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

The Dynamics of Risk - Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events (Hardcover): Louise K. Comfort The Dynamics of Risk - Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events (Hardcover)
Louise K. Comfort
R2,218 Discovery Miles 22 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Twisted Fury (Paperback): Scott Palmo Twisted Fury (Paperback)
Scott Palmo
R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Voices from the Storm - The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath (Paperback): Lola Vollen, Chris Ying Voices from the Storm - The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath (Paperback)
Lola Vollen, Chris Ying
R584 Discovery Miles 5 840 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

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.

Meltdown - Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It (Paperback, Main): Chris Clearfield, Andras Tilcsik Meltdown - Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It (Paperback, Main)
Chris Clearfield, Andras Tilcsik 1
R359 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R53 (15%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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

The High Girders - The gripping true story of a Victorian dream that ended in tragedy (Paperback): John Prebble The High Girders - The gripping true story of a Victorian dream that ended in tragedy (Paperback)
John Prebble
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'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.

Shtf Survival - The Skills and Mindset to Survive When the World Collapses (The Prepper's Guide to Food and Water Storage... Shtf Survival - The Skills and Mindset to Survive When the World Collapses (The Prepper's Guide to Food and Water Storage for Disaster Preparedness) (Paperback)
Jeffrey Doak
R475 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Preventing War and Promoting Peace - A Guide for Health Professionals (Hardcover): William H. Wiist, Shelley K. White Preventing War and Promoting Peace - A Guide for Health Professionals (Hardcover)
William H. Wiist, Shelley K. White
R3,291 Discovery Miles 32 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

He predicted but nobody listened - predictions that world could not notice (Paperback): Harsh Vardhan Singh He predicted but nobody listened - predictions that world could not notice (Paperback)
Harsh Vardhan Singh
R221 Discovery Miles 2 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dark Side of Silence (Paperback): Raymond Poole The Dark Side of Silence (Paperback)
Raymond Poole
R535 Discovery Miles 5 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
K9 Professional Tracking - A Complete Manual for Theory and Training in Clean-Scent Tracking (Paperback, 2nd edition): Resi... K9 Professional Tracking - A Complete Manual for Theory and Training in Clean-Scent Tracking (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Resi Gerritsen, Ruud Haak
R1,134 R992 Discovery Miles 9 920 Save R142 (13%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A well-trained tracking dog can be the deciding factor that determines success in both criminal investigations and search-and-rescue operations. When the stakes are high, demanding the highest level of performance from your K9, you need training methods relied upon by police forces and SAR teams around the world. Dr. Resi Gerritsen and Ruud Haak show you how to train your dog in clean-scent tracking, a proven method that trains dogs to follow a particular scent on a track, while ignoring cross-tracks and other odors. In K9 Professional Tracking, you'll learn how to train a clean-scent tracking dog you can count on. You'll also learn to fully understand what your K9 is and is not capable of in the field. With the right knowledge and techniques, you'll be able to train tracking dogs to the highest professional standards.

Storm (Paperback): Deb Grant Storm (Paperback)
Deb Grant
R367 R342 Discovery Miles 3 420 Save R25 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The U.S. Criminal Justice System in the Pandemic Era and Beyond - Taking Stock of Efforts to Maintain Safety and Justice... The U.S. Criminal Justice System in the Pandemic Era and Beyond - Taking Stock of Efforts to Maintain Safety and Justice Through the Covid-19 Pandemic and Prepare for Future Challenges (Paperback)
Brian A. Jackson, Michael J D Vermeer, Dulani Woods, Duren Banks, Sean E Goodison
R1,479 Discovery Miles 14 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lessons Learned in Disaster Mental Health - The Earthquake in Armenia and Beyond (Paperback, New edition): Armen Goenjian, Alan... Lessons Learned in Disaster Mental Health - The Earthquake in Armenia and Beyond (Paperback, New edition)
Armen Goenjian, Alan Steinberg, Robert Pynoos
R1,339 Discovery Miles 13 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

CENTRO Journal - Fall 2020 Vol. 32 No. 3 (Paperback): Manuel Lobato, Marta Alvarez, Marines Aponte CENTRO Journal - Fall 2020 Vol. 32 No. 3 (Paperback)
Manuel Lobato, Marta Alvarez, Marines Aponte
R560 Discovery Miles 5 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Refugee Realities - Voices from the Middle East (Paperback): Tara Seger Refugee Realities - Voices from the Middle East (Paperback)
Tara Seger
R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Perils of a Restless Planet - Scientific Perspectives on Natural Disasters (Paperback, Revised): Ernest Zebrowski Jr Perils of a Restless Planet - Scientific Perspectives on Natural Disasters (Paperback, Revised)
Ernest Zebrowski Jr
R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Self Help Workbook - EVERYTHING AT YOUR OWN PACE - The Definitive Guide To Help You Overcome Your Fears, Anxieties, and Deepest... Self Help Workbook - EVERYTHING AT YOUR OWN PACE - The Definitive Guide To Help You Overcome Your Fears, Anxieties, and Deepest Worries By Learning How To Love Yourself Whole-Heartedly (Paperback)
Elian Carter
R530 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Holmfirth Floods - The Story of the Floods in Holmfirth (Paperback): Ian Harlow Holmfirth Floods - The Story of the Floods in Holmfirth (Paperback)
Ian Harlow
R311 Discovery Miles 3 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Land of the Fee - Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class (Hardcover): Devin Fergus Land of the Fee - Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle Class (Hardcover)
Devin Fergus
R824 Discovery Miles 8 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Thirsting for Living Water - Finding Adventure and Purpose in God`s Redemption Story (Hardcover): Michael J. Mantel, Richard... Thirsting for Living Water - Finding Adventure and Purpose in God`s Redemption Story (Hardcover)
Michael J. Mantel, Richard Stearns
R673 R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

A Comprehensive Approach to Earthquake Disaster Mitigation (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1993 ed.):... A Comprehensive Approach to Earthquake Disaster Mitigation (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1993 ed.)
Andreas Vogel, Oktay Erguenay, Klaus Brandes, Muefiz Alpmen
R1,903 Discovery Miles 19 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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."

Untranslatable - Emotions are universal but untranslatable (Paperback): Kishor Panthi Untranslatable - Emotions are universal but untranslatable (Paperback)
Kishor Panthi
R577 Discovery Miles 5 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
After the Virus - Lessons from the Past for a Better Future (Paperback): Hilary Cooper, Simon Szreter After the Virus - Lessons from the Past for a Better Future (Paperback)
Hilary Cooper, Simon Szreter
R495 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Save R220 (44%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economies in 2020? Hilary Cooper and Simon Szreter reveal the deep roots of our vulnerability and set out a powerful manifesto for change post-Covid-19. They argue that our commitment to a flawed neoliberal model and the associated disinvestment in our social fabric left the UK dangerously exposed and unable to mount an effective response. This is not at all what made Britain great. The long history of the highly innovative universal welfare system established by Elizabeth I facilitated both the industrial revolution and, when revived after 1945, the postwar Golden Age of rising prosperity. Only by learning from that past can we create the fairer, nurturing and empowering society necessary to tackle the global challenges that lie ahead - climate change, biodiversity collapse and global inequality.

Escape from Violence - Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World (Paperback, New Ed): Aristide R. Zolberg, Astri... Escape from Violence - Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World (Paperback, New Ed)
Aristide R. Zolberg, Astri Suhrke, Sergio Aguayo
R2,439 Discovery Miles 24 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The magnitude of refugees movements in the Third World, widely perceived as an unprecedented crisis, has generated widespread concern in the West. This concern reveals itself as an ambiguous mixture of heartfelt compassion for the plight of the unfortunates cast adrift and a diffuse fear that they will come "pouring in." In this comprehensive study, the authors examine the refugee flows originating in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and suggest how a better understanding of this phenomenon can be used by the international community to assist those in greatest need. Reviewing the history of refugee movements in the West, they show how their formation and the fate of endangered populations have also been shaped by the partisan objectives of receiving countries. They survey the kinds of social conflicts characteristic of different regions of the Third World and the ways refugees and refugee policy are made to serve broader political purposes.

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