Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard exposure. Societies that strengthen themselves, or are strengthened, mitigate decline and resultant further exposure to what are largely human induced risks of environmental, social and economic degradation. This book outlines why it is important to explore in more depth the relationships between environmental hazards, risk and disasters in society. It presents challenges presented by mainstream and non-mainstream approaches to the human side of disaster studies. By hazard categories this book includes critical processes and outcomes that significantly disrupt human wellbeing over brief or long time-frames. Whilst hazards, risks and disasters impact society, individuals, groups, institutions and organisations offset the effects by becoming strong, healthy, resilient, caring and creative. Innovations can arise from social organisation in times of crisis. This volume includes much of use to practitioners and policy makers needing to address both prevention and response activities. Notably, as people better engage prevalent hazards and risks they exercise a process that has become known as disaster risk reduction (DRR). In a context of climatic risks this is also indicative of climate change adaptation (CCA). Ultimately it represents the quest for development of sustainable environmental and societal futures. Throughout the book cases studies are derived from the world of hazards risks and disasters in society.

When Evan Williams, an eighteen year old girl from a small town in Mississippi is unexpectedly accepted to Yale, she meets a student by the name of Layland Justice who holds a secret of his own and lets her in on a two thousand year old prophecy that forces Evan to make the ultimate decisions between good versus evil and loving him or doing the right thing.

Poor Poppy is feeling very down in the dumps. She is convinced that everyone likes Honey more than they like her and that they think she is prettier, including Mum and Cousin Saffron. Poppy decides that the only thing to do is to make herself look and act like Honey, and then everyone will like her so much more.
Find out what happens when Poppy tries to become just like Honey. Will it make her happy, or will she realize that everyone is different and that every little girl is a true princess in her own way?

Poor Poppy is feeling very down in the dumps. She is convinced that everyone likes Honey more than they like her and that they think she is prettier, including Mum and Cousin Saffron. Poppy decides that the only thing to do is to make herself look and act like Honey, and then everyone will like her so much more.
Find out what happens when Poppy tries to become just like Honey. Will it make her happy, or will she realize that everyone is different and that every little girl is a true princess in her own way?