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Coronavirus and Vulnerable People - Addressing the Divide in Harm and Responses and Exploring Implications for a More Peaceful... Coronavirus and Vulnerable People - Addressing the Divide in Harm and Responses and Exploring Implications for a More Peaceful World (Hardcover)
Laura L. Finley, Pamela D. Hall
R3,209 Discovery Miles 32 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume explores how the Coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately harmed vulnerable and marginalized people in the U.S. Chapters address harm to people of color that exacerbated structural racism and harm to low-wage workers that highlighted existing inequalities. In addition, the volume provides strategies that have been successful in mitigating these harms and recommendations for a postpandemic more peaceful and just future.

Transport and Pandemic Experiences (Hardcover): Maria Attard, Corinne Mulley Transport and Pandemic Experiences (Hardcover)
Maria Attard, Corinne Mulley
R3,797 Discovery Miles 37 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The COVID-19 pandemic showed how transport plays a role in societal responses to global events at all levels, from governments to transport operators and individuals. Transport and Pandemic Experiences consolidates these lessons from a range of geographies and practices. Attard and Mulley bring together leading experts in the field, examining various entities in their response to the coronavirus pandemic, using the experience of COVID-19 to inform issues of resilience and policy. Chapters provide an in-depth analysis of how the impact of the pandemic varied between demographic groups and global location, between passenger and freight modes, highlighting how transport and travel behaviour changed. Along with providing an overview of policy responses to the pandemic from the freight and air transport sector, to analysing the development of working-from-home policies with their inherent effects on public transport, Transport and Pandemic Experiences discusses how the accumulated knowledge of the pandemic needs to be capitalised in our fight against climate change and helps to identify future research imperatives for better understanding and greater policy transferability. The Transport and Sustainability series addresses the important nexus between transport and sustainability containing volumes dealing with a wide range of issues relating to transport, its impact in economic, social, and environmental spheres, and its interaction with other policy sectors.

The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools - Money, Power, and the Illegal Takeover of a Public School System... The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools - Money, Power, and the Illegal Takeover of a Public School System (Hardcover, New edition)
Raynard Sanders
R2,224 Discovery Miles 22 240 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools explores and criticizes the contemporary educational reforms of the New Orleans public school system. The New Orleans education reforms implemented after Hurricane Katrina, using the corporate model approach, have been an academic failure with charter operators making millions of dollars while reestablishing a segregated school system based on race and class-all in the name of school reform. Despite the claims of unprecedented academic success the educational reforms have been a dismal failure academically and operationally, and have resurrected equity and access issues. Equally as disturbing the reforms firmly have re-established a tiered public school system that segregates students by race and class. The Coup D'etat of the New Orleans Public Schools puts the corporate education reform movement in its proper context, which is to create a new twenty-first century model for turning around urban public school districts in the United States. This book reveals what really happened pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina that contributed to the state takeover of public schools in New Orleans. This story is told through the eyes of parents, students, activists, political leaders, and Orleans Parish School Board members and employees who have been largely ignored. It also includes an analysis of the author's personal experience of almost forty years in New Orleans public schools as a teacher, principal, and college professor.

Constructing Risk - Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment (Hardcover): Stephen O Bender Constructing Risk - Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment (Hardcover)
Stephen O Bender
R3,011 Discovery Miles 30 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies approach economic development while trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers. It examines the vulnerability of economic and social infrastructure to natural hazard events, looks at policies which imperil infrastructure, and proposes new development approaches to be undertaken by sovereign states, international development banks, NGOs, and bilateral aid agencies.

Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters (Paperback, 2nd edition): John F. Shroder Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters (Paperback, 2nd edition)
John F. Shroder; Edited by Wilfried Haeberli, Colin Whiteman
R3,812 Discovery Miles 38 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Second Edition, provides you with the latest scientific developments in sea level rise, permafrost degradation, rock/ice avalanches, glacier surges, glacial lake outburst floods, ice shelf collapses, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness and mitigation. The book takes a geo-scientific approach to the topic while also covering current thinking about directly related social scientific issues that can affect ecosystems and global economies. Special emphasis is placed on the rapidly progressing effects from global warming on the cryosphere, perspectives for the future and latest scientific advances, and technological developments.

Waiting for the Big One - Risk, Science, Experience, and Culture in Disaster Preparedness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Charlotte... Waiting for the Big One - Risk, Science, Experience, and Culture in Disaster Preparedness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse
R2,909 Discovery Miles 29 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following the idea that earthquake risk is multiple and hard to grasp, the book explores the earthquake's "mode of existence," guiding the reader through different epistemic moments of the earthquake-risk definition. Through in-depth interviews, the book provides a rarely seen anthropology of risk from the perspective of experts, scientists, and concerned residents for whom the possibility of partial or complete destruction of their living environment is a constant companion of their everyday lives. It argues that the characterization of the threats and the measures taken to limit its impacts constitute an integrated part of both their residential experiences and their professional practices.

Enhancing Disaster Preparedness - From Humanitarian Architecture to Community Resilience (Paperback): A. Nuno Martins, Mahmood... Enhancing Disaster Preparedness - From Humanitarian Architecture to Community Resilience (Paperback)
A. Nuno Martins, Mahmood Fayazi, Faten Kikano, Liliane Hobeica
R2,691 Discovery Miles 26 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Enhancing Disaster Preparedness: From Humanitarian Architecture to Community Resilience relates to the fourth priority of the UNDRR's Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. Taking a wide understanding of disaster preparedness, the book deals with resilient responses and building capacities related to hazardous events, bringing some practical experiences and theoretical insights in this regard. Mostly based on field research conducted in the Global South by architects and other built-environment professionals, the book covers both post-disaster interventions (rebuilding and recovery) and development-related processes. Its three parts address the interlinkages between humanitarian design, community resilience, and inclusive governance, which are crucial for fostering effective disaster preparedness. Part I discusses the changing roles of architects and urban designers involved in the humanitarian sphere. Part II concentrates on resilience as a socioecological capacity to enhance preparedness within community-based spatial processes. Focused on global dynamics, Part III covers topics emphasizing the link between the management of crises, whether political or economic, at different levels of governance, and the vulnerability of communities and structures on the national and local scales. As such, the book approaches rising global priorities and brings timely lessons to support building a more equitable, safe, and resilient environment in a rapidly urbanized world.

They Called Me A Lioness - A Palestinian Girl's Fight For Freedom (Paperback): Ahed Tamimi, Dena Takruri They Called Me A Lioness - A Palestinian Girl's Fight For Freedom (Paperback)
Ahed Tamimi, Dena Takruri
R451 R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Save R85 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.

“What would you do if you grew up seeing your home repeatedly raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, for just a moment, to imagine that this was your life. How would you want the world to react?”

Ahed Tamimi is a world-renowned Palestinian activist, born and raised in the small West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, which became a center of the resistance to Israeli occupation when an illegal, Jewish-only settlement blocked off its community spring. Tamimi came of age participating in nonviolent demonstrations against this action and the occupation at large. Her global renown reached an apex in December 2017, when, at sixteen years old, she was filmed slapping an Israeli soldier who refused to leave her front yard. The video went viral, and Tamimi was arrested.

But this is not just a story of activism or imprisonment. It is the human-scale story of an occupation that has riveted the world and shaped global politics, from a girl who grew up in the middle of it . Tamimi’s father was born in 1967, the year that Israel began its occupation of the West Bank and he grew up immersed in the resistance movement. One of Tamimi’s earliest memories is visiting him in prison, poking her toddler fingers through the fence to touch his hand. She herself would spend her seventeenth birthday behind bars. Living through this greatest test and heightened attacks on her village, Tamimi felt her resolve only deepen, in tension with her attempts to live the normal life of a daughter, sibling, friend, and student.

An essential addition to an important conversation, They Called Me a Lioness shows us what is at stake in this struggle and offers a fresh vision for resistance. With their unflinching, riveting storytelling, Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri shine a light on the humanity not just in occupied Palestine but also in the unsung lives of people struggling for freedom around the world.

The 53 - Rituals, Grief, and a Titan II Missile Disaster (Hardcover): Jason S. Ulsperger The 53 - Rituals, Grief, and a Titan II Missile Disaster (Hardcover)
Jason S. Ulsperger; Foreword by J. David Knottnerus
R2,292 Discovery Miles 22 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

On August 9, 1965, 53 men died in the impoverished hills of rural Arkansas. Their final breaths came in a government facility deep underground while their loved ones were at home expecting their return. The incident at Launch Complex 373-4 remains the deadliest accident to occur in a U.S. nuclear facility. The 53: Rituals, Grief, and a Titan II Missile Disaster analyzes the event. It looks at causes but more importantly at how the mishap has affected daughters and sons for nearly six decades. It gives new sociological insight on technological disasters and the sorrow following them. The book also details how surviving family members managed themselves and each other while benefiting from the support of friends and strangers. It describes how institutions blame the powerless, and how powerful organizations generate distrust and secondary trauma. With an analysis of the event and post-disaster life, their children share stories on what went wrong and how they keep moving forward.

Danger Stalks the Land - Alaskan Tales of Death and Survival (Paperback, First): Larry Kaniut Danger Stalks the Land - Alaskan Tales of Death and Survival (Paperback, First)
Larry Kaniut
R592 R546 Discovery Miles 5 460 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Alaska is like no other state and few countries; men experience greater risk in her arms. This one-of-a-kind anthology captures the spine tingling adventures of daring men and women who venture into Alaska's vast wilderness and look death in the eye. "Danger Stalks the Land" relates gripping episodes of animal attacks, avalanches, aircraft disasters, fishing, hunting, and skiing accidents, and chronicles risky climbs and reckless mountaineering amid Alaska's fantastic peaks. Through exhaustive research and interviews, author Larry Kaniut has captured in one volume, the terror and beauty of man's attempt to explore a vast and unforgiving land.

Disaster Anarchy - Mutual Aid and Radical Action (Paperback): Rhiannon Firth Disaster Anarchy - Mutual Aid and Radical Action (Paperback)
Rhiannon Firth
R767 R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Save R123 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Commendable - a book that prepares us to think about and react to system failures' - Peter Gelderloos Anarchists have been central in helping communities ravaged by disasters, stepping in when governments wash their hands of the victims. Looking at Hurricane Sandy, Covid-19, and the social movements that mobilised relief in their wake, Disaster Anarchy is an inspiring and alarming book about collective solidarity in an increasingly dangerous world. As climate change and neoliberalism converge, mutual aid networks, grassroots direct action, occupations and brigades have sprung up in response to this crisis with considerable success. Occupy Sandy was widely acknowledged to have organised relief more effectively than federal agencies or NGOs, and following Covid-19 the term 'mutual aid' entered common parlance. However, anarchist-inspired relief has not gone unnoticed by government agencies. Their responses include surveillance, co-option, extending at times to violent repression involving police brutality. Arguing that disaster anarchy is one of the most important political phenomena to emerge in the twenty-first century, Rhiannon Firth shows through her research on and within these movements that anarchist theory and practice is needed to protect ourselves from the disasters of our unequal and destructive economic system.

Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk (Hardcover, 1994 ed.): B.E. Tucker, Mustafa Oezder Erdik, Christina N. Hwang Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
B.E. Tucker, Mustafa Oezder Erdik, Christina N. Hwang
R5,779 Discovery Miles 57 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Urban seismic risk is growing worldwide and is, increasingly, a problem of developing countries. In 1950, one in four of the people living in the world's fifty largest cities was earthquake-threatened, while in the year 2000, about one in two will be. Further, ofthose people living in earthquake-threatened cities in 1950, about two in three were located in developing countries, while in the year 2000, about nine in ten will be. Unless urban seismic safety is improved, particularly in developing countries, future earthquakes will have ever more disastrous social and economic consequences. In July 1992, an international meeting was organized with the purpose of examining one means ofimproving worldwide urban safety. Entitled "Uses ofEarthquake Damage Scenarios for Cities of the 21st Century," this meeting was held in conjunction with the Tenth World Conference ofEarthquake Engineering, in Madrid, Spain. An earthquake damage scenario (EDS) is adescription of the consequences to an urban area of a large, but expectable earthquake on the critical facilities of that area. In Californian and Japanese cities, EDSes have been used for several decades, mainly for the needs of emergency response officials. The Madrid meeting examined uses of this technique for other purposes and in other, less developed countries. As a result of this meeting, it appeared that EDSes bad significant potential to improve urban seismic safety worldwide.

Policing environmental protest - Power and resistance in pandemic times (Hardcover): Anna Di Ronco Policing environmental protest - Power and resistance in pandemic times (Hardcover)
Anna Di Ronco
R1,497 R1,255 Discovery Miles 12 550 Save R242 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book addresses the contemporary urban eco-justice movement, drawing from empirical data collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author focuses on the case studies of two eco-justice groups in Trento, Italy, opposing a high-speed railway and the containment of wild bears. Her fieldwork is vividly brought to life via an extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with activists and police in charge of public order. Rooted in critical, green, cultural and sensory approaches within criminology, the book analyses the mobilisation and policing of eco-justice movements during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, and identifies directions for future critical and green criminological research in the area.

Knickerbocker Snowstorm (Hardcover): Kevin Ambrose Knickerbocker Snowstorm (Hardcover)
Kevin Ambrose
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Facts and Analysis - Canvassing COVID-19 Responses (Hardcover): Linda Chelan Li Facts and Analysis - Canvassing COVID-19 Responses (Hardcover)
Linda Chelan Li
R1,012 R874 Discovery Miles 8 740 Save R138 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

It is impossible to reflect on 2020 without discussing Covid-19. The term, literally meaning corona-(CO) virus (VI) disease (D) of 2019, has become synonymous with "the virus", "corona" and "the pandemic". The impact of the virus on our lives is unprecedented in modern human history, in terms of scale, depth and resilience. When compared to other epidemics that have plagued the world in recent decades, Covid-19 is often referred to as being much more "deadly" and is associated with advances in technology which scientists have described as "revolutionary". From politics to economics, spanning families and continents, Covid-19 has unsettled norms: cultural clashes are intensified, politics are even more polarized, and regional tensions and conflicts are on the rise. Global trade patterns and supply chains are increasingly being questioned and redrawn. The world is being atomized, and individuals are forced to accept the "new normal" in their routines. In an attempt to combat the virus and minimize its detrimental effects, countries have undertaken different preventive strategies and containment policies. Some have successfully curbed the spread of Covid-19, while many others remain in limbo, doing their best to respond to outbreaks in cases. To gain a better understanding of how to fight Covid-19, it is imperative to evaluate the success and failures of these approaches. Under what conditions is an approach successful? When should it be avoided? How can this information be used to avoid future pandemics? This volume offers informative comparative case studies that shed light on these key questions. Each country case is perceptively analyzed and includes a detailed timeline, allowing readers to view each response with hindsight and extrapolate the data to better understand what the future holds. Taken as a whole, this collection offers invaluable insight at this critical juncture in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Natural Resources and Social Conflict - Towards Critical Environmental Security (Hardcover): M. Schnurr, L. Swatuk Natural Resources and Social Conflict - Towards Critical Environmental Security (Hardcover)
M. Schnurr, L. Swatuk
R1,408 Discovery Miles 14 080 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

This volume brings together international scholars reflecting on the theory and practice of international security, human security, natural resources and environmental change. It contributes by 'centring the margins' and privileging alternative conceptions and understandings of environmental (in)security.

Communicable Crises - Prevention, Response, and Recovery in the Global Arena (Hardcover, New): Deborah E. Gibbons Communicable Crises - Prevention, Response, and Recovery in the Global Arena (Hardcover, New)
Deborah E. Gibbons
R3,208 Discovery Miles 32 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume makes a significant contribution to the crisis management literature. It also adds to our inchoate understanding of network governance: temporary teams and task forces, communities of practice, alliances, and virtual organizations. It hints that the distinction between networks and organizations may be somewhat spurious, a matter of degree rather than kind. Indeed, it seems that this distinction may derive more from mental models in which we consistently reify organizations than anything else. Finally, the volume emphasizes the functional importance of leadership in network governance and puzzles over its provision in the absence of hierarchy. As such, it adds to the contributions made by Marc Granovetter (1973), John Seeley Brown and Paul Duguid (1991), Bart Nooteboom (2000), Paul J. DiMaggio (2001), John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt (2001), Laurence O'Toole and Ken Meier (2004), and others, as well as Nancy Roberts' seminal work on wicked problems and hastily formed teams. The result is a product the editor and the contributors can be proud of. Overall, it is one that will edify, surprise, and delight its readers.

The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management - Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what... The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management - Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Asmita Tiwari
R3,855 R3,573 Discovery Miles 35 730 Save R282 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How can a place be built and managed so that it is safe for people to live? Ironically, many governments and citizens keep on asking the same question after every new disaster. Why, even with high levels of investment in increasing government's capacity to manage disasters, do the impacts of disasters continue to increase? What can the governments do differently? What is the role of local communities? Where should aid agencies invest? This book looks into these critical questions and highlights how current capacity development efforts might be resulting in the opposite-capacity crisis or capability trap. The book provides a new approach for the understanding and the developing of effective local capacity to reduce and manage future disaster impacts.

Geopolitics of Foreign Aid (Hardcover): Helen V. Milner, Dean Tingley Geopolitics of Foreign Aid (Hardcover)
Helen V. Milner, Dean Tingley
R17,904 Discovery Miles 179 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Foreign aid remains a crucial policy tool of donor countries, and many countries throughout the world have been or continue to be recipients of aid. In this two-volume set, Professor Milner and Professor Tingley bring together the key published articles from a variety of disciplines which explore and elucidate the geopolitics of foreign aid. The volumes investigate the motivations for giving aid, the politics surrounding aid for donors and recipients, the role of international institutions and military aid.

Not Without My Dogs - A South African's Tale Of Fleeing Ukraine (Paperback): Kobus Olivier, Hilda van Dyk Not Without My Dogs - A South African's Tale Of Fleeing Ukraine (Paperback)
Kobus Olivier, Hilda van Dyk
R295 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R18 (6%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

When the first missiles rattled Kyiv in February 2021, Kobus Olivier was ready for it. Or so the South African thought.

He knew a war was brewing when thousands of Russian troops gathered at the border, but the locals laughed it off. Fleeing alone was never an option for Kobus.

Not without my dogs tells the remarkable story of how Kobus managed to save himself and his four-legged friends. This book is a testament of the human spirit and how even in times of war, strangers lend a hand.

Bracing for Armageddon? - The Science and Politics of Bioterrorism in America (Hardcover): William R. Clark Bracing for Armageddon? - The Science and Politics of Bioterrorism in America (Hardcover)
William R. Clark
R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since September 11th, the threat of a bioterrorist attack--massive, lethal, and unpreventable--has hung in the air over America. Bracing for Armageddon? offers a vividly written primer for the general reader, shedding light on the science behind potential bioterrorist attacks and revealing what could happen, what is likely to happen, and what almost certainly will not happen.
The story opens with a riveting account of a bioterrorism scenario commissioned by the U.S. government. Using this doomsday tableau as a springboard, Clark reviews a host of bioterrorist threats (from agroterrorism to a poisoning of the water supply) and examines not only the worst-case menace of genetically engineered pathogens, but also the lethal agents on the CDC's official bioterrorism list, including Smallpox, Anthrax, Plague, Botulism, and Ebola. His overview of attempted bioterrorist attacks to date--such as the failed Aum Shinrikyo attempts in 1995 in Japan and the Anthrax attack in the US following 9/11--bolstered by interviews with a range of experts--shows why virtually all of these attempts have failed. Indeed, he demonstrates that a successful bioterrorism attack is exceedingly unlikely, while a major flu epidemic (such as the deadly epidemic of 1918 that killed millions worldwide) is a virtual certainty. Given the long odds of a bioterrorist attack, Clark asks, has the more than $40 billion the United States has dedicated to the defense against bioterrorism really been well spent? Is it time to move on to other priorities?
In contrast to the alarmist fears stoked by the popular media, William Clark here provides a reassuring overview of what we really need to worry about--and what we don't.

Children and Young People's Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction - Agency and Resilience (Hardcover): Amanda Bingley,... Children and Young People's Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction - Agency and Resilience (Hardcover)
Amanda Bingley, Aya Goto, Alison Lloyd Williams, Maria Papazafiri, Magda Nikolaraizi, …
R2,038 R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Save R541 (27%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Disasters are an increasingly common and complex combination of environmental, social and cultural factors. Yet existing response frameworks and emergency plans tend to homogenise affected populations as 'victims', overlooking the distinctive experience, capacities and skills of children and young people. Drawing on participatory research with more than 550 children internationally, this book argues for a radical transformation in children's roles and voices in disasters. It shows practitioners, policy-makers and researchers how more child-centred disaster management, that recognises children's capacity to enhance disaster resilience, actually benefits at-risk communities as a whole.

Aftershock - A Journey of Faith to Haiti (Hardcover): M. a. Coulter Aftershock - A Journey of Faith to Haiti (Hardcover)
M. a. Coulter
R1,057 Discovery Miles 10 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For four consecutive days in early 2010, it was the number one news story in the world.

Ten Americans left the security and comfort of their homes, placed jobs on hold, and left family and friends behind to help Haitian children victimized by the January 12, 2010, earthquake. Despite their admirable intents, the Christians were charged with kidnapping, criminal association, and attempting to arrange "irregular" travel.

What Satan intended for evil, God used for good. Experience their unwavering faith. Experience their reliance on God's sustaining power, His endless grace, and His abiding presence. And trust, as they trust, that God will use their sacrifices to bring about meaningful change in Haiti. The full measure of their service is yet to be realized ...

Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research (Paperback): Fernando I. Rivera Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research (Paperback)
Fernando I. Rivera
R2,215 Discovery Miles 22 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research provides a synthesis of the most pressing issues in natural hazards research by new professionals. The book begins with an overview of emerging research on natural hazards, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, sea-level rise, global warming, climate change, and tornadoes, among others. Remaining sections include topics such as socially vulnerable populations and the cycles of emergency management. Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research is intended to serve as a consolidated resource for academics, students, and researchers to learn about the most pressing issues in natural hazard research today.

How High We Go in the Dark (Paperback): Sequoia Nagamatsu How High We Go in the Dark (Paperback)
Sequoia Nagamatsu
R275 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R29 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2022 FINALIST FOR THE BARNES & NOBLE DISCOVER PRIZE 2022 FINALIST FOR THE URSULA LE GUIN PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 WATERSTONES AND ESQUIRE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 'Haunting and luminous ... An astonishing debut' - Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta 'A powerfully moving and thought provoking read. At times sublime, strange and deeply human' Adrian Tchaikovsky, bestselling author of the Children of Time series Siberia, 2031. After a virus, unearthed from melting permafrost, unleashes a deadly plague upon humanity, those left alive are forced to adapt to a new world, and do so in myriad moving and inventive ways. Among those adjusting to this new normal are an aspiring comedian, employed by a theme park designed for terminally ill children, who falls in love with a mother trying desperately to keep her son alive; a scientist who, having failed to save his own son from the plague, gets a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects - a pig - develops human speech; and a widowed painter and her teenage granddaughter who must set off on cosmic quest to locate a new home planet. A story of unshakeable hope that seamlessly crosses literary lines, How High We Go in the Dark follows a cast of intricately linked characters spanning hundreds of years as humankind endeavours to restore the delicate balance of the world. Wonderful and disquieting, dreamlike and all too possible. [How High We Go in the Dark] reaches far beyond our stars while its heart remains rooted to Earth, and reminds us that our wellbeing depends on the wellbeing of our world - Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

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