Catálogo de libros: Impacto social de los desastres

220 Catálogo de libros: Impacto social de los desastres

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  • Ten Years after Katrina
    This collection charts the effects of hurricane Katrina upon American cultural identity; it does not merely catalogue the trauma of the event but explores the ways that such an event functions in and on the literature that represents it. ...
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    149,78 €

  • 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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    135,17 €

  • 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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    21,79 €

  • 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
    In the post-World War II period, modern societies have developed numerous heterogeneous synthetic organic compounds released into the environment and human habitats. This book addresses the threats posed by these contaminants and other hazardous wastes to human health and the health of other species in the environment. ...
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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
    KEITH BEVEN & JIM HALL
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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. Chappell / Robert P. Jr. Chappell / Robert PJrChappell
    Identity theft is a growing problem around the world, and criminals are not above stealing a child’s identity. Child Identity Theft, presented in a question and answer format, will help parents and other guardians to prevent child identity theft from happening and to know what to do if it does. ...
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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 €

  • Industrial Disasters, Toxic Waste, and Community Impact
    Adeola / Francis O. Adeola / Francis OAdeola
    In the post-World War II period, modern societies have developed numerous heterogeneous synthetic organic compounds released into the environment and human habitats. This book addresses the threats posed by these contaminants and other hazardous wastes to human health and the health of other species in the environment. ...
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    156,50 €

  • The Age of Catastrophe
    John David Ebert
    Disasters, both natural and man-made, are on the rise. Indeed, a catastrophe of one sort or another seems always to be unfolding somewhere on the planet. We have entered into a veritable Age of Catastrophes which have grown both larger and more complex and now routinely very widespread in scope. The old days of the geographically isolated industrial accidents, of the sinking...
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    42,83 €

  • With Hope in Your Heart
    Christopher Whittle
    THE HILLSBOROUGH DISASTER - Saturday, the 15th of April 1989 - when 96 innocent men, women and children lost their lives, in Britain’s worst ever sporting disaster. WITH HOPE IN YOUR HEART: A HILLSBOROUGH SURVIVOR’S STORY, THE DENIAL OF JUSTICE & A PERSONAL BATTLE OF PTSD - is the REAL, SHOCKING STORY OF HILLSBOROUGH. It is unique as it is written through the eyes of a surviv...
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    17,47 €

  • Personal Disaster Planning Handbook
    Frank Borelli
    Based on experience and knowledge gained during his thirty-plus years of service in uniform, the author prepared this Personal Disaster Planning Handbook to offer basic guidance. This handbook addresses emergency preparedness at home, and in a redundant, layered approach if you are required-by law or circumstance-to leave your home. The first sections address the various layers...
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    15,13 €


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