HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect the...

  Contentions, Arguments, Alternatives This widely adopted text starts with the fundamentals--what is economic growth, what is development, and wha...

Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Wake of Human and Environmental Catastrophe When disaster strikes, a ritual unfolds: a flood of experts, bureaucra...

The much expanded sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides a fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and wh...

In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment...