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At Risk - Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Ben Wisner, Piers Blaikie, Terry... At Risk - Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Ben Wisner, Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis
R6,139 R4,960 Discovery Miles 49 600 Save R1,179 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Contents:
Foreword Preface List of figures and tables Part 1: Framework and Theory 1. The challenge of disasters and our approach 1.1 In at the deep end 1.2 Conventional views of disaster 1.3 What is vulnerability? 1.4 Changes since the first edition 1.5 The International decade for natural disaster reduction 1.6 Convergence and critique 1.7 Audiences 1.8 Scope and plan of the book 1.9 Limits and assumptions 2. The disaster pressure and release model 2.1 The nature of vulnerability 2.2 Cause and effects in the disaster pressure model 2.3 Time and the chain of explanation 2.4 Limits to our knowledge 2.5 Global trends and dynamic pressures 2.6 Uses of the pressure and release model 3. Access to resources and coping in adversity 3.1 Access to resources - an introduction 3.2 New thinking since 1994 3.3 'Normal life' - the formal Access model 3.4 Coping and access to safety Part 2: Vulnerability and Hazard Types 4. Famine and natural hazards 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Famines and their causes 4.3 Explanations of famine 4.4 Complex emergencies, policy famines and human rights 4.5 Causes, pressures, unsafe conditions and famine 4.6 Access and famines 4.7 Policy 4.8 Conclusion 5. Biological hazards 5.1 Introduction 5.2 What are biological hazards? 5.3 Limitations to our treatment of biological hazards 5.4 Biological links with other hazards 5.5 Livelihoods, resources and disasters 5.6 Vulnerability-creating processes 5.7 Pressures affecting defences against biological hazards 5.8 Root causes and pressures 5.9 Steps toward risk reduction 6. Floods 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Floods as known risks 6.3 Disastrous outcomes for vulnerable people 6.4 Floods and vulnerability 6.5 Summary: flood prevention and mitigation 7. Coastal storms 7.1 Introduction 7.2 The physical hazard 7.3 Patterns of vulnerability 7.4 Case-studies 7.5 Policy responses 8. Earthquakes and volcanoes 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Classic case-studies: Guatemala and Mexico 8.3 Recent case-studies 8.4 Volcanoes and related hazards 8.5 Goma, Congo, eruption of Mount Nyiragongo 2002 8.6 Policy response and mitigation Part 3: Towards a Safer Environment 9. Towards a safer environment 9.1 Towards a safer environment: are statements of intent merely hot air? 9.2 From Yokohama to Johannesburg via Geneva 9.3 Risk reduction objectives Notes Bibliography

Introduction to Natural and Man-made Disasters and Their Effects on Buildings (Paperback, New): Roxanna McDonald Introduction to Natural and Man-made Disasters and Their Effects on Buildings (Paperback, New)
Roxanna McDonald
R1,679 Discovery Miles 16 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a comprehensive guide to all types of natural and man made disasters and their effect on buildings. It gives overall guidance and a basic technical understanding of prevention, mitigation and management of disaster, and outlines a checklist of preventive design elements for each situation. Every category is illustrated with a case study which pin points the essential information that is crucial to architects and engineers in designing buildings with disaster prevention in mind. The aim of the book is to give a clear understanding of the nature of events and problems, and to enable readers to respond with knowledge to the unique demands placed on their designs. A special emphasis is also placed on re-building as an opportunity to start again. For the specialists this is a process of constant learning and improving techniques in the light of events past.

Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World (Hardcover): Mark Pelling Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World (Hardcover)
Mark Pelling
R3,133 Discovery Miles 31 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World makes clear that there are links between global scale processes and local experiences of disaster, but underlies the difficulty of attributing blame for individual disasters on specific global pressures. It argues that action to reduce disaster needs to be coordinated at the local, national and global scales and that there is a need for greater integration across the physical and social sciences. In this context, the human rights agenda is seen as a way of moving disaster reduction efforts forward.

Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia - A Political Ecology of Vulnerability, Migration and Environmental Change... Living with Floods in a Mobile Southeast Asia - A Political Ecology of Vulnerability, Migration and Environmental Change (Paperback)
Carl Middleton, Rebecca Elmhirst, Supang Chantavanich
R1,432 Discovery Miles 14 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability, resilience and social justice associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia. It challenges simple analyses of flooding as a singular driver of migration, and instead considers the ways in which floods figure in migration-based livelihoods and amongst already mobile populations. The book develops a conceptual framework based on a 'mobile political ecology' in which particular attention is paid to the multidimensionality, temporalities and geographies of vulnerability. Rather than simply emphasising the capacities (or lack thereof) of individuals and households, the focus is on identifying factors that instigate, manage and perpetuate vulnerable populations and places: these include the sociopolitical dynamics of floods, flood hazards and risky environments, migration and migrant-based livelihoods and the policy environments through which all of these take shape. The book is organised around a series of eight empirical urban and rural case studies from countries in Southeast Asia, where lives are marked by mobility and by floods associated with the region's monsoonal climate. The concluding chapter synthesises the insights of the case studies, and suggests future policy directions. Together, the chapters highlight critical policy questions around the governance of migration, institutionalised disaster response strategies and broader development agendas.

The Vulnerability Of Cities - Natural Disasters And Social Resilience (Paperback, New): Mark Pelling The Vulnerability Of Cities - Natural Disasters And Social Resilience (Paperback, New)
Mark Pelling
R1,759 Discovery Miles 17 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

* What makes some cities less vulnerable and more resilient in the face of natural disasters?* Examines the factors involved and draws invaluable lessons from case studies and analysis* Major contribution to urban studies, social development and disaster managementWhen disaster strikes in cities the effects can be far worse than in other human environments. But which factors determine how vulnerable a city is to such events, and how resilient it will be in recovering from them? Focusing on cities in the global South, this book examines the conditions that lead to high losses from urban disasters and the factors that enable some households and communities to withstand disaster more effectively. Through a range of detailed studies, it shows that strengthening local capacity-through appropriate housing, infrastructure and livelihoods-is crucial to improving resilience, and that effective community or municipal government is essential if cities are to cope with disasters successfully.This book marks a significant advance in our understanding of what works and what doesn't when cities are faced with extreme conditions, and how this can be applied when dealing with other events and stresses.

Cultures of Disaster - Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines (Hardcover): Greg Bankoff Cultures of Disaster - Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines (Hardcover)
Greg Bankoff
R4,633 Discovery Miles 46 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Contents:
Foreword Acknowledgement Introduction: Of Jellyfish and Coups 1. 'Vulnerability' as Western Discourse 2. Environment and Hazard in Southeast Asia 3. A History of Hazard in the Philippines 4. The 'Costs' of Hazard in the Contemporary Philippines 5. The Politics of Disaster Management and Relief 6. The Economics of Red Tides 7. The Social Order and the El Nino Southern Oscillation 8. Cultures of Disaster Conclusion: Hazard as a Frequent Life Experience Notes Bibliography

Natural Disasters and Cultural Change (Hardcover): John Grattan, Robin Torrence Natural Disasters and Cultural Change (Hardcover)
John Grattan, Robin Torrence
R4,500 Discovery Miles 45 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Human cultures have been interacting with natural hazards since the dawn of time. This book explores these interactions in detail and revisits some famous catastrophes including the eruptions of Thera and Vesuvius. These studies demonstrate that diverse human cultures had well-developed strategies which facilitated their response to extreme natural events.


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Between Sanity and Madness - Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era (Hardcover): Allan V. Horwitz Between Sanity and Madness - Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era (Hardcover)
Allan V. Horwitz
R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era examines several perennial issues about mental illness: how different societies have distinguished mental disorders from normality; whether mental illnesses are similar to or different from organic conditions; and the ways in which different eras conceive of the causes of mental disorder. It begins with the earliest depictions of mental illness in Ancient Greek literature, philosophy, and medicine and concludes with the portrayals found in modern neuroscience. In contrast to the tremendous advances other branches of medicine display in answering questions about the nature, causes, and treatments of physical diseases, current psychiatric knowledge about what qualities of madness distinguish it from sanity, the resemblance of mental and physical pathologies, and the kinds of factors that lead people to become mentally ill does not show any steady growth or, arguably, much progress. The immense recent technological advances in brain science have not yet led to corresponding improvements in understandings of and explanations for mental illnesses. These perplexing phenomena remain almost as mysterious now as they were millennia ago.

A Death-Dealing Famine - The Great Hunger in Ireland (Paperback): Christine Kinealy A Death-Dealing Famine - The Great Hunger in Ireland (Paperback)
Christine Kinealy
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the last major famine in Europe, yet is occurred at a time when Ireland was still joined by Act of Union to Britain, then the wealthiest country in the world. The Famine traumatized the Irish nation for many decades: the population declined from eight million in 1841 to only four million in 1901. Ireland is now a modern European republic, but what role does the Famine have in the Irish consciousness, and the theories of non-Irish historians? This book provides an overview of the differing images of the Famine, from the popular nationalist viewpoint, to the sanitized interpretations of revisionist historians who refuse to regard the Famine as a pivotal event in Irish history. In addition to received views, the author questions the accepted idea that the course of the Famine was inevitable, arguing that more could have been done to mitigate the effects and the suffering and also looks at the attitudes of other governments and their policies regarding food shortages.

Disasters, Hazards and Law (Hardcover, New): Mathieu Deflem Disasters, Hazards and Law (Hardcover, New)
Mathieu Deflem; Series edited by Mathieu Deflem
R3,939 Discovery Miles 39 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume deals with important social-science issues of law and legal control pertaining to disasters and hazards in a variety of contexts. The orientation of this volume is driven by relevant recent occurrences, such as hurricanes Katrina and Irene in the United States; the 2010 BP oil spill, and the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Thematically diverse within the province of the social and behavioral sciences related to law and law-related problems, the chapters in this volume are not restricted in terms of theoretical approach and methodological orientation. Topics addressed include: legal controls pertaining to disaster prevention, response, and mitigation; regulations and policies concerning hazardous conditions; and crime and the control thereof in post-disaster situations.

Our Daily Bread: Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941 - Socialist Distribution and... Our Daily Bread: Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941 - Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941 (Hardcover)
Kate Transchel, Elena Osokina
R4,487 Discovery Miles 44 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing on newly available archival materials including official documents, reports, and personal accounts, this remarkable study presents a detailed picture of the living standards of various social groups in prewar Soviet Russia, and the role of state-controlled distribution of food and goods as a tool of the Stalinist dictatorship. The study offers a new perspective not only on the period of collectivization, industrialization, and terror but also on the regime's most rudimentary method of controlling human behavior and reshaping the social order. In her conclusion the author analyzes the long-term impacts of the Stalinist "dictatorship of distribution", from bureaucratization to rural depopulation to the emergence of a distinctive type of black-market economy.

Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (Paperback): Niall Ferguson Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe (Paperback)
Niall Ferguson
R295 R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Save R23 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times 'Insightful, productively provocative and downright brilliant' New York Times A compelling history of catastrophes and their consequences, from 'the most brilliant British historian of his generation' (The Times) Disasters are inherently hard to predict. But when catastrophe strikes, we ought to be better prepared than the Romans were when Vesuvius erupted or medieval Italians when the Black Death struck. We have science on our side, after all. Yet the responses of many developed countries to a new pathogen from China were badly bungled. Why? While populist rulers certainly performed poorly in the face of the pandemic, Niall Ferguson argues that more profound pathologies were at work - pathologies already visible in our responses to earlier disasters. Drawing from multiple disciplines, including economics and network science, Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe offers not just a history but a general theory of disaster. As Ferguson shows, governments must learn to become less bureaucratic if we are to avoid the impending doom of irreversible decline. 'Stimulating, thought-provoking ... Readers will find much to relish' Martin Bentham, Evening Standard

Three Mile Island (Paperback): Erik V. Fasick Three Mile Island (Paperback)
Erik V. Fasick
R609 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mass Fatality and Casualty Incidents - A Field Guide (Paperback): Roberta Jensen Mass Fatality and Casualty Incidents - A Field Guide (Paperback)
Roberta Jensen
R2,821 Discovery Miles 28 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Mass Fatality and Casualty Incidents: A Field Guide presents in checklist form the recommended responses to events that result in mass fatalities, such as the Oklahoma City bombing, the crash of a jet airliner, or the attack on the World Trade Center. All cities in the United States will have to have a mass fatality disaster plan in effect by the end of 1999.

Mr. Jensen is a leading authority in this area and provides training for police, fire and hospital personnel (including EMTs and social workers), local, state, federal and international emergency planners and responders.

This book details actions that are part of a mass fatality incident response. Specifically, they are the actions that begin once life and property preservation ceases and continues through to the release of the deceased. Thus, primary focus is on search, recovery, medicolegal investigation, personal effects operations, family assistance operations, and media operations. Ancillary steps include logistics support, security, responder protection, attitudes and coping with mass death.

Floods - Physical Processes & Human Impacts (Hardcover, New): K Smith Floods - Physical Processes & Human Impacts (Hardcover, New)
K Smith
R5,971 Discovery Miles 59 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is concerned with the causes and consequences of river and coastal floods and the ways in which people can respond to the flood hazard. Individual chapters address issues such as floods as natural hazards; impacts and interpretations of flood hazard; causes, spatial characteristics and form of river floods and coastal floods; flood estimation; flood defence; flood forecasting and warning; other responses including land use planning and insurance; and a concluding discussion of problems, policies and prospects. Floods has been written by two experienced and successful authors whose complementary skills are combined to give a broad, comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of the subject which can be used not only as a text book or learning manual but also as an authoritative reference source. This has been achieved by organising and structuring the material to demonstrate the continuity and linkages between the causes and impacts of flooding and the many possible responses to the flood hazard. At the same time the book ensures that discussion of each of the main themes and topics is, as far as is practicable, self-contained. The book is timely in several aspects. It addresses the topicality and universality of floods which are an increasing hazard at a time of global environmental change (climate, land use, population distribution etc.). It also offers the layman and practitioner alike a synthesis and clarification of many individual research efforts near the close of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.

A Framework for Survival - Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters (Hardcover, 2nd... A Framework for Survival - Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Kevin M. Cahill; Foreword by Kofi Annan
R4,953 Discovery Miles 49 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Wars and natural disasters--from the Balkans to the Sudan, and from Afghanistan to Central Africa--have increasingly placed humanitarian workers in the crossfire. Kevin M. Cahill has assembled an international team of renowned experts to offer a much-needed assessment of the moral, legal and political dilemmas and consequences of humanitarian assistance.
Focusing on health issues, "A Framework for Survival" takes an unflinching look at the reality facing the nations and people involved, from refugees to relief organizations. In contrast to conventional military, economic and geopolitical strategies, it suggests rational and effective solutions and foreign policy recommendations. With the collapse of many government infrastructures since the end of the Cold War, the success or failure of humanitarian efforts may, to a large extent, define the world's chances for survival.

Response to Disaster - Psychosocial, Community, and Ecological Approaches (Hardcover, 3 Rev Ed): Richard Gist, Bernard Lubin Response to Disaster - Psychosocial, Community, and Ecological Approaches (Hardcover, 3 Rev Ed)
Richard Gist, Bernard Lubin
R3,729 Discovery Miles 37 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Psychological service in the wake of cataclysmic life events has emerged as a prominent and visible component of social response. This has generated a bandwagon of potential service providers, service approaches, and service venues. Where once help was scarce, it has become plentiful enough to engender its own set of conflicts and contradictions along with its intended solace and aid. "Response to Disaster" reconciles the technical, theoretical, and applied interests represented in these various populations and provides a contemporary treatment that can help define the directions of their increasing interaction.

Response to Disaster - Psychosocial, Community, and Ecological Approaches (Paperback, 3 Rev Ed): Richard Gist, Bernard Lubin Response to Disaster - Psychosocial, Community, and Ecological Approaches (Paperback, 3 Rev Ed)
Richard Gist, Bernard Lubin
R1,487 Discovery Miles 14 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Psychological service after cataclysmic life events is a prominent component of social response The book reconciles the technical, theoretical and applied interests, of different professionals and helps define the directions of their interaction.

An Introduction to Emergency Exercise Design and Evaluation (Hardcover, Third Edition): Robert McCreight An Introduction to Emergency Exercise Design and Evaluation (Hardcover, Third Edition)
Robert McCreight
R2,639 Discovery Miles 26 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This completely updated version of An Introduction to Emergency Exercise Design and Evaluation is designed to help practitioners and students of emergency management understand various aspects of the exercise design process. Emergency exercises are an important component of an organization's emergency planning and preparedness, yet few emergency managers and practitioners have training in designing or evaluating them. In this updated and practical handbook, author Robert McCreight explains the essential elements and core principles of exercise design and evaluation. This book focuses on natural disasters and technological emergencies that occur in communities of any size. It provides emergency planners, public health professionals, emergency managers, police officers, and fire fighters with an in-depth look at exercise design issues and an accessible guide to designing and evaluating emergency exercises.

A Framework for Survival - Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters (Paperback, 2nd... A Framework for Survival - Health, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Assistance in Conflicts and Disasters (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Kevin M. Cahill; Foreword by Kofi Annan
R1,458 Discovery Miles 14 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


Eruption - The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback): Steve Olson Eruption - The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens (Paperback)
Steve Olson
R426 Discovery Miles 4 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists and ordinary people listened anxiously to rumblings in the long quiescent volcano Mount St. Helens. Still, when a massive explosion took the top off the mountain, no one was prepared. Fifty-seven people died and the lives of many others were changed forever. Steve Olson interweaves history, science and vivid personal stories to portray the disaster as a multi-faceted turning point. Powerful economic, political and historical forces influenced who died when the volcano erupted. The eruption of Mount St. Helens transformed volcanic science, the study of environmental resilience and our perceptions of how to survive on an increasingly dangerous planet.

The Shaming State - How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need (Paperback): Sara Salman The Shaming State - How the U.S. Treats Citizens in Need (Paperback)
Sara Salman
R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A riveting indictment of a government that fails to help citizens in need of aid, protection, and humanity The Shaming State argues that Americans have been abandoned by a government that has relinquished its duties of care toward its citizens. Sara Salman describes a government that withholds care in times of need and instead shames the very citizens it claims to serve, both poor and middle class. She argues that the state does so by emphasizing personal responsibility, thus tacitly blaming the needy for relying on state programs. This blame is pervasive in the American cultural imagination, existing in political discourse and internalized by Americans. This book explores how shaming is exhibited by state and political institutions by showing the ways in which the state withholds care, and how people who need that care are humiliated for failing to be self-sufficient. The Shaming State investigates the vanishing horizon of social rights in the United States and the dwindling of government support to both lower- and middle-class people. Focusing on Iraqi refugees and white home-owning New Yorkers, Salman demonstrates how both groups were faced with immense difficulty and humiliation when searching for access to assistance programs maintained by the government. Looking at the long-range trends, she argues that the last forty years have made the United States a market fundamentalist country, where the government does not offer unified aid and increasingly asks citizens to assume personal responsibility in the face of uncontrollable disasters. Whether it was Hurricane Katrina almost two decades ago or the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the indifferent and stagnant response by the American government not only amplified the consequences of these disasters but also increased hostility towards the vulnerable groups who needed help. Ultimately, The Shaming State tells stories of abandonment, loss, shame, and rage experienced by Americans and how the government has let them down time and time again.

Case Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention - Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and... Case Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention - Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series (Paperback)
Himanshu Grover, Tanveer Islam, Jean Slick
R1,762 Discovery Miles 17 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Case Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention: Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series presents cases illustrating efforts to reduce human and material losses associated with disasters. This volume demonstrates that mitigation is an ongoing phase in which communities continually pursue long-term hazard resistance and reduction. Cases illustrate the importance of risk assessment in the development of mitigation strategies through hazard mapping and multi-hazard mitigation planning. Cases also illustrate approaches to reduction risk through structural and non-structural means, giving consideration to benefits or limitations of these strategies in different contexts. The contributions of different mitigation activities to disaster risk reduction efforts are examined using the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Ryan K Baggett, Brian... Homeland Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Ryan K Baggett, Brian K. Simpkins
R2,562 Discovery Miles 25 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A compelling overview of systems and strategies implemented to safeguard U.S. resources from a plethora of threats, the vulnerabilities and security gaps in these infrastructure systems, and options to enable the future security of the homeland. Since the first edition of this book was published in 2009, significant changes have occurred in the security landscape, both domestically and internationally. This second edition is thoroughly updated to reflect those changes, offering a complete review of the various security and resilience measures currently in place and potential strategies to safeguard life and property within the U.S. homeland. As noted in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Goal, the mission area of protection is vital to the homeland in its focus on actions to protect people, vital interests, and our nation's way of life. With that in mind, this book discusses strategies such as risk analysis and assessment, information sharing, and continuity planning. The authors focus on relevant and timely threats and hazards facing specific infrastructure components including, but not limited to, agriculture and food, banking and finance, water, energy, telecommunications, and transportation. The dynamic posture of critical infrastructure security and resilience (CISR) underscores the importance of an integrated, layered all-hazards approach. In describing this approach, the book includes new chapters on planning and guidance, public and private partnerships, cyber issues and threats, and careers in infrastructure protection. Additions such as discussion questions, learning objectives, and fundamental concepts for each chapter provide additional direction for instructors and students alike. Provides a timely, relevant work that is crucial to understanding the current state of U.S. critical infrastructure security and resilience (CISR) Offers a comprehensive examination of foundations and contemporary issues within CISR, using various real-world incidents as focusing events Analyzes the 16 critical infrastructure sectors for purposes of comparison, analysis, and discussion Investigates various threats and hazards-manmade, natural, and technological-that specifically affect CISR Summarizes updated federal legislation and doctrine in a clear and concise manner Overviews academic, training, and career preparedness resources for those interested in the field Includes learning objectives, key terms, and discussion questions in each chapter to facilitate the book's use in an academic environment

World Hunger (Paperback, New): Liz Young World Hunger (Paperback, New)
Liz Young
R1,250 Discovery Miles 12 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days


World Hunger explores the nature and extent of contemporary world hunger, explaining why hunger still persists while agricultural production increases and genetic engineering revolutionises food production and distribution. Numerous case studies, drawn from the North and South, illustrate the diversity of diets in the world and the connections between the global and local. Globalisation and access to food in the global supermarket is examined.
Explaining the essential political character of hunger, the author exposes popular myths and identifies positive changes where prevailing inequalities and ideologies are challenged and it becomes possible to envisage a world where hunger is history.

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