Impacto social de los desastres

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  • Emergency Management and Disaster Response Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships
    Doaa M Taha / Marvine Paula Hamner / SShane Stovall
    In a world of earthquakes, tsunamis, and terrorist attacks, it is evident that emergency response plans are crucial to solve problems, overcome challenges, and restore and improve communities affected by such negative events. Although the necessity for quick and efficient aid is understood, researchers and professionals continue to strive for the best practices and methodologie...
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    262,54 €

  • Rethinking Disaster Recovery
    Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before Hurricane Katrina and how they have been magnified or altered since the storm. With a focus on social axes of power such as gender, sexuality, race, and class, this book tells new and personalized stories of recovery that help to deepen our understanding of the disast...
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    141,50 €

  • Enterprise Risk Management
    David L Olson / Desheng Dash Wu
    Risk is inherent in business. Without risk, there would be no motivation to conduct business. But a key principle is that organizations should accept risks that they are competent enough to deal with, and “outsource” other risks to those who are more competent to deal with them (such as insurance companies). Enterprise Risk Management (2nd Edition) approaches enterprise risk ma...
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    105,76 €

  • Ten Years after Katrina
    Hurricane Katrina blasted the Gulf Coast in 2005, leaving an unparalleled trail of physical destruction. In addition to that damage, the storm wrought massive psychological and cultural trauma on Gulf Coast residents and on America as a whole. Details of the devastation were quickly reported-and misreported-by media outlets, and a slew of articles and books followed, offering a...
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    149,78 €

  • Sobrevivir a una Catástrofe Urbana
    Richard Duarte
    Are you ready for the next hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood...? Surviving a disaster requires planning, preparations, and skills. Being prepared can save lives, but 'getting prepared' can often seem like a daunting task. If you've ever wanted to protect yourself and your loved ones, but you just didn't know where to begin, this Quick-Start Guide is everything you need (and...
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    12,75 €

  • Death By Mustard Gas
    Army History Unit / Australia. Department of Defence / Geoff Plunkett
    In 1943 a top secret consignment of chemical weapons, including deadly mustard gas, arrived in Australia by ship. But there was a problem - it was leaking. Military authorities quickly realised this but, in the interests of secrecy, sent unprotected and unsuspecting wharf labourers into a lethal environment. The result was catastrophic: permanent disability and death. This shoc...
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    19,27 €

  • Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire
    Yaron Ayalon
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    143,78 €

  • We Shall Not Be Moved
    Tom Wooten
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    16,93 €

  • Denali Justice
    Peter A. Galbraith / Peter AGalbraith
    In mid-December, 1981, a small air taxi crashed at 10,300’ on the slopes of Mt. McKinley in Denali National Park, Alaska. All four people aboard survived the crash and the wreckage was quickly located. The weather was good the next morning but no rescuers landed nearby and no emergency supplies were airdropped. After four days and nights, a volunteer civilian climbing team reac...
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    19,48 €

  • Let The Bums Burn
    Geoff Plunkett
    In 1966 a fire ripped through Melbourne's William Booth Memorial Home for destitute and alcoholic men. Although it remains Australia's deadliest building fire, it is, like the 30 men who died in that fire - forgotten. This shocking narrative describes the inferno's origin and progression, the slowly festering blaze that developed into an explosive backdraft. It recalls the effo...
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    12,01 €

  • Surviving An Urban Disaster
    Richard Duarte
    Are you ready for the next hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood...? Surviving a disaster requires planning, preparations, and skills. Being prepared can save lives, but 'getting prepared' can often seem like a daunting task. If you've ever wanted to protect yourself and your loved ones, but you just didn't know where to begin, this Quick-Start Guide is everything you need (and...
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    12,72 €

  • On the Brink
    Ryusho Kadota / Simon Varnam
    March 11, 2011.The Tōhoku earthquake struck just before three on a Friday afternoon. Massive earthquake damage was followed by tsunami rising to heights of 40 meters that swept 10km inland, scouring the land of homes, school, communities, and people.The earthquake and tsunami alone were disasters of incredible proportion, resulting in over 15,000 deaths, over 100, 000 buildings...
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    27,62 €

  • Local Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Climate
    Disasters cause economic as well as human losses, and the magnitude of this is ever increasing. This can largely be attributed to climate-related disasters, which intensify vulnerability in the poorest areas of the world. In this book, approaches to disaster risk management in developing countries are discussed, with particular focus on Costa Rica. ...
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    227,29 €

  • Hyogo Framework for Action and Urban Disaster Resilience
    In a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering as a result of natural hazards, local level disaster risk reduction efforts are of increasing importance. With reference to examples in the Philippines, this book analyses a local disaster risk resilience approach and suggests an effective model for enhancing such efforts in the future. ...
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    246,14 €

  • A History of Disaster
    Ken Smith
    The threat of disaster has long been a fact of life for Atlantic Canadians, especially the countless numbers who earn their livelihoods on the unpredictable seas or in the volatile mines. And even with continuing improvements in technology, disasters can still strike at any time, as 1992's Westray mine explosion and 1998's Swissair crash have shown.A History of Disaster...
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    18,11 €

  • Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact
    Francis O. Adeola / Francis OAdeola
    Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact focuses on hazardous and toxic wastes releases, industrial disasters, the consequent contamination of communities and the environment, and the subsequent social impacts, including adverse health effects, deaths and property destruction, psychosocial problems, and community disruption. This book explains the emergence of a ...
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    74,62 €

  • Building Resilient Urban Communities
    How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanisation and climate change? This key issue forms the discussion point for this book. Particular reference is made to cities in India, and the capability of such urban communities of responding to climate-related disasters. ...
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    227,29 €

  • APPLIED UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS FOR FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT
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    303,47 €

  • Heart Like Water
    Joshua Clark
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    19,51 €

  • Disaster and Sociolegal Studies
    Susan Sterett
    Legal governance of disaster brings both care and punishment to the upending of daily life of place-based disasters. National states use disasters to reorganize how they govern. This collection considers how law is implicated in disaster. The late modern expectation that states are to care for their population makes it particularly important to point out the limits to care - li...
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    69,46 €

  • Family Preparedness for the New Millennium
    David Browne
    Not many people realize it, but the world is coming apart-and it’s probably not going to get better anytime soon. Terrorism, natural disasters, economic collapses, riots, and civil unrest continue to spread throughout cities, states, and nations. It’s more important than ever to prepare to survive such events. David Browne, a Vietnam veteran who was assigned to the CIA and flew...
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    23,72 €

  • Family Preparedness for the New Millennium
    David Browne
    Not many people realize it, but the world is coming apart-and it’s probably not going to get better anytime soon. Terrorism, natural disasters, economic collapses, riots, and civil unrest continue to spread throughout cities, states, and nations. It’s more important than ever to prepare to survive such events. David Browne, a Vietnam veteran who was assigned to the CIA and flew...
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    15,31 €

  • Prepper Parents! a Beginner’s Guide to Surviving Societal Meltdown & Mayhem with Your Family
    Ma American / Pa American
    If you’ve been told it’s too late to start prepping ...If you’ve been told it’s too expensive to start prepping ...If you think most prepping guides are too complicated ...If you have little ones, not just yourself to think of ...If you think most preppers seem, well-a little obsessive ...THIS is the prepping guide for you!PREPPER PARENTS! is a brief, easy-to-understand guide d...
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    9,04 €

  • The Family Guide to Survival Skills That Can Save Your Life and the Lives of Your Family
    Alan Corson
    Think about where you are right now. How well would you and your family fare if today, right now, you were suddenly faced with an enormous disaster-a massive earthquake, a sudden flood, a horrific hurricane, tornado, super storm, or other catastrophic event? If you and your family are not fully prepared to face the events after a disaster and you want to learn how to prepare fo...
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    46,24 €

  • The Family Guide to Survival Skills That Can Save Your Life and the Lives of Your Family
    Alan Corson
    Think about where you are right now. How well would you and your family fare if today, right now, you were suddenly faced with an enormous disaster-a massive earthquake, a sudden flood, a horrific hurricane, tornado, super storm, or other catastrophic event? If you and your family are not fully prepared to face the events after a disaster and you want to learn how to prepare fo...
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    25,33 €

  • Crisis in the American Heartland -- Coming Home
    George W. Doherty / George WDoherty
    Veterans in rural communities face unique challenges, who will step up to help?Beginning with a brief scenario of a more gentle view of rural life, the book moves through learned information about families, children, and our returning National Guard and Reserve civilian military members. Return experiences will necessarily be different in rural and frontier settings than they a...
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    35,52 €

  • Crisis in the American Heartland -- Coming Home
    George W. Doherty / George WDoherty
    Veterans in rural communities face unique challenges, who will step up to help?Beginning with a brief scenario of a more gentle view of rural life, the book moves through learned information about families, children, and our returning National Guard and Reserve civilian military members. Return experiences will necessarily be different in rural and frontier settings than they a...
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    22,93 €

  • The Death of the Big Men and the Rise of the Big Shots
    Keir Martin
    In 1994, the Pacific island village of Matupit was partially destroyed by a volcanic eruption. This study focuses on the subsequent reconstruction and contests over the morality of exchanges that are generative of new forms of social stratification. Such new dynamics of stratification are central to contemporary processes of globalization in the Pacific, and more widely. Thro...
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    163,42 €

  • Child Identity Theft
    Chappell / Robert P. Jr. Chappell / Robert PJrChappell
    Child identity theft is the fastest growing type of identity theft, a crime that affects some 10 million people annually. Each year more than 500,000 children are affected by identity theft - half of them under age six. Countless other cases go unreported because the thief is a relative or parent of the victim. This devastating crime can wreak havoc on a child’s future opportun...
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    67,32 €

  • Climate Change
    Dr SJPThompson / Dr. S. J. P. Thompson / DrSJPThompson
    This book is truly the comprehensive biography of man-made ills and evils such as poverty, unemployment, environmental degradation, crime, violence, economic chaos, terrorism, pollution, species extinction, global warming and climate change. These curses resisted extensive and very costly eradication efforts because humanity failed to address the real 'secret' factor behind the...
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    15,40 €


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