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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters
Terror by Rail is the compelling true story of a major catastrophic
event: the Amtrak 188 accident on May 12, 2015. After the accident,
Lynn's journey and passion for answers caused her to ask questions
about train safety and the bigger global issues that are challenges
of the rail. A must read for anyone who travels, lives, or works
near a rail system, Lynn's Terror by Rail is a wakeup call. As the
phrase goes: See Something Say Something, and Lynn is doing just
that! A born connector as a recruiter, puts the puzzle pieces
together, and readers are blown away by what could have been the
headline for that day had the story gone just 50 feet differently.
This story of a single mom's heartbreaking journey through hell and
back will give everyone facing challenges in their life a bit of
hope that nothing is permanent, and it is possible to come through
the pain to the other side.
Disasters can happen without warning and cause detrimental damage
to society. By planning and conducting research beforehand,
businesses can more effectively aid in relief efforts. The
Developing Role of Public Libraries in Emergency Management:
Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference
source for the latest scholarly information on library engagement
in official emergency response and how these institutions can offer
community aid in disaster situations. Featuring extensive coverage
on a number of topics such as hazard analysis, mitigation planning,
and local command structure, this publication is ideally designed
for academicians, researchers, and practitioners seeking current
research on the role local businesses play in emergency response
situations.
Introduction to Emergency Management, Seventh Edition, sets the
standard for excellence in the field and has educated a generation
of emergency managers. This long-trusted resource provides a broad
overview of the key aspects of the emergency management profession.
Readers will gain an understanding of why the emergency management
profession exists, what actions its professionals and practitioners
are tasked with performing, and what achievements are sought
through the conduct of these various efforts. Students and new
professionals alike will further gain an enhanced understanding of
key terminology and concepts that enable them to work with
emergency management specialists.
In an age of uncertainty about how climate change may affect the
global food supply, industrial agribusiness promises to keep the
world fed. Through the use of factory "farms," genetic engineering,
and the widespread application of chemicals, they put their trust
in technology and ask consumers to put our trust in them. However,
a look behind the curtain reveals practices that put our soil,
water, and health at risk. What are the alternatives? And can they
too feed the world?
The rapidly growing alternative food system is made up of people
reclaiming their connections to their food and their health. A
forty-year veteran of this movement, Mark Winne introduces us to
innovative "local doers" leading the charge to bring nutritious,
sustainable, and affordable food to all. Heeding Emerson's call to
embrace that great American virtue of self-reliance, these leaders
in communities all across the country are defying the authority of
the food conglomerates and taking matters into their own hands.
They are turning urban wastelands into farms, creating local dairy
collectives, preserving farmland, and refusing to use genetically
modified seed. They are not only bringing food education to
children in elementary schools, but also offering cooking classes
to adults in diabetes-prone neighborhoods--and taking the message
to college campuses as well. Such efforts promote food democracy
and empower communities to create local food-policy councils, build
a neighborhood grocery store in the midst of a food desert, or
demand healthier school lunches for their kids. Winne's hope is
that all of these programs, scaled up and adopted more widely, will
ultimately allow the alternative food system to dethrone the
industrial.
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"Food Rebels, Guerrilla Gardeners, and Smart-Cookin' Mamas
"challenges us to go beyond eating local to become part of a larger
solution, demanding a system that sustains body and soul.
Comprising a selection of articles dedicated to disaster management
this volume focuses on the challenges arising from extreme natural
phenomena and descriptions of methods for assessing their
occurrence probability and of measures for mitigating their
intensity and detrimental effects.The first group of articles
describes general strategies for risk assessment and mitigation,
providing examples in the context of various kinds of natural
disasters. The economic impact of mitigation measures, communities'
differing coping capabilities, human attitudes towards relocation
and possible links to climate change are among the topics
considered. Natural strategies are outlined in the contexts of
Turkey, Brazil and United Arab Emirates.The second part of the book
is concerned with disasters from specific natural causes starting
with a group of ten articles on floods.The corresponding
contributions address flood frequency, vulnerability and resilience
of communities, response of small and medium enterprises, risk in
terms of financial losses, private investment participation to
mitigation measures, assessment of design solutions against flood
hazard, sleeper dykes as a means of reducing risk, preparedness of
hospitals, causes of highway flooding and their relative
importance, and impact of floods on poor communities. The third set
of articles are related to earthquake-related hazards describing,
in particular, an analysis tool providing integrated risk, coping
capacity and management output, a method for assessing
vulnerability considering key contributing factors, a technique for
urban aftershock management and damage assessment, and neural
network modelling to estimate tsunami damage.Finally, a group of
three articles address issues related to landslides, namely, slope
management as a means of reducing risk and losses, early warning
based on rainfall data, and hazard prediction using favourability
function modelling and spatial target mapping software.Providing a
unique global perspective this volume focuses on recent
developments over a wide range of topics that cannot be found in
similar, currently available, publications in this field.This is a
valuable addition to the relevant literature available to
researchers and engineers working on risk assessment and mitigation
of natural disaster intensity and consequences. It will appeal of
those working in academic and research environments as well as
governmental, professional, national and international
organisations.
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