HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT

  Communities are at the core of disaster risk reduction (DRR), and community based approaches are getting increasing focus in national DRR plans. ...

Introduction to Emergency Management, Seventh Edition, sets the standard for excellence in the field and has educated a generation of emergency ma...

  As our planet changes and human population grows, students will see new examples every year of the devastating impact that geologic and atmospher...

  Improving Emergency Management and Climate Change Adaptation Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of...

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

  Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly wri...

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, burea...

Events such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Japanese earthquakes and tsunamis in 2011 have provided unfortunate...

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...