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Mass Care in Disasters: FEMA, The Red Cross & Volunteers
ISBN: 9781606927250 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reviews five voluntary organisations that are highly diverse in their focus and response structures, and constitute a major source of the nation's mass care and related disaster services and are integrated into the 2008 National Response Framework.
Reviews five voluntary organisations that are highly diverse in their focus and response structures, and constitute a major source of the nation's mas...
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443,38 zł |
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Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies
ISBN: 9780872895706 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From floods to fires, tornadoes to terrorist attacks, governments must respond to a variety of crises and meet reasonable standards of performance. With fifteen adapted Kennedy School cases, this title helps students experience a series of large-scale emergencies.
From floods to fires, tornadoes to terrorist attacks, governments must respond to a variety of crises and meet reasonable standards of performance. Wi...
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568,65 zł |
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Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: A Handbook for Reconstructing After Natural Disasters
ISBN: 9780821380451 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook is designed to guide public sector managers and development practitioners through the process of large-scale housing reconstruction after major disasters, based on the experiences of recent reconstruction programs in Aceh (Indonesia), Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Gujarat (India) and Bam (Iran).
This handbook is designed to guide public sector managers and development practitioners through the process of large-scale housing reconstruction afte...
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187,69 zł |
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Natural Hazards, Unnatural Disasters: The Economics of Effective Prevention
ISBN: 9780821380505 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms are natural hazards, but unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omission and commission. Every disaster is unique, but each exposes actions by individuals and governments at different levels that, had they been different, would have resulted in fewer deaths and less damage. Prevention is possible, and this book examines what it takes to do this cost-effectively. It looks at disasters primarily through an economic lens. Economists emphasize self-interest to explain how people choose the amount of prevention,...
Earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms are natural hazards, but unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omiss...
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235,86 zł |
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gis in hospital and healthcare emergency management
ISBN: 9781439821299 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although many books have been published on the application of GIS in emergency management and disaster response, this is the first one to bring together a comprehensive discussion of the critical role GIS plays in hospital and healthcare emergency management and disaster response. Illustrating a wide range of practical applications, GIS in Hospital and Healthcare Emergency Management explores how GIS data is being used to assess need, determine surge capacity, and improve logistics in emergency or disaster scenarios. Leading experts in the field provide authoritative coverage of all... Although many books have been published on the application of GIS in emergency management and disaster response, this is the first one to bring tog... |
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704,29 zł |
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Be Very Afraid: The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats
ISBN: 9780199730872 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "the country's best social scientists" by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "tremendously valuable." The New York Times calls him "temperate, balanced, compassionate," adding, "one can't but admire Mr. Wuthnow's views." A leading authority on religion, he now addresses one of the most profound subjects: the end of the world. In Be Very Afraid, Wuthnow examines the human response to existential threats--once a matter for theology, but now looming before us in multiple forms. Nuclear weapons, pandemics, global...
Robert Wuthnow has been praised as one of "the country's best social scientists" by columnist David Brooks, who hails his writing as "tremendously val...
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203,94 zł |
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The Real Disaster Is Above Ground: A Mine Fire and Social Conflict
ISBN: 9780813193298 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1950s Centralia was a small town, like many others in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. But since the 1960s, it has been consumed, outwardly and inwardly by a fire that has inexorably spread in the abandoned mines beneath it. The earth smokes, subsides, and breathes poisonous gases. No less destructive has been the spread of dissension and enmity among the townspeople. The Real Disaster Above Ground tells the story of the fire and the tragic failure of all efforts to counter it. This study of the Centralia fire represents the most thorough canvass of the... In the 1950s Centralia was a small town, like many others in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. But since the 1960s, it has been consumed, outw... |
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115,07 zł |
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Survival: How Being Prepared Can Keep Your Family Safe
ISBN: 9781416599012 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PREPAREDNESS TIPS - Store survival kits in a convenient place known to all family members. - Keep a smaller version of your supplies kit in the trunk of your car, at work, and at school. - Keep them in airtight plastic bags, if possible. - Change your stored water supply every six months so it stays fresh. - Replace your stored food every six months. - Ask your physician or pharmacist about storing prescription medications. - Rethink your kit and family needs at least once a year.
PREPAREDNESS TIPS - Store survival kits in a convenient place known to all family members. - Keep a smaller version of your supplies kit in th...
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69,22 zł |
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Humanitarians in Hostile Territory: Expeditionary Diplomacy and Aid Outside the Green Zone
ISBN: 9781598744446 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than ever, humanitarian aid workers and diplomats are engaging with vulnerable populations in areas once considered too dangerous to touch. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground experience in conflict environments around the world, Van Arsdale and Smith offer this important and revealing guide to the ethics, theory, and practice of work outside so-called Green Zones of safety. On behalf of governments or NGOs, on missions ranging from complex humanitarian emergencies to post-war reconstruction, social scientists in interdisciplinary teams are operating in settings where the line between...
More than ever, humanitarian aid workers and diplomats are engaging with vulnerable populations in areas once considered too dangerous to touch. Drawi...
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192,97 zł |
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Humanitarians in Hostile Territory: Expeditionary Diplomacy and Aid Outside the Green Zone
ISBN: 9781598744439 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than ever, humanitarian aid workers and diplomats are engaging with vulnerable populations in areas once considered too dangerous to touch. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground experience in conflict environments around the world, Van Arsdale and Smith offer this important and revealing guide to the ethics, theory, and practice of work outside so-called Green Zones of safety. On behalf of governments or NGOs, on missions ranging from complex humanitarian emergencies to post-war reconstruction, social scientists in interdisciplinary teams are operating in settings where the line between...
More than ever, humanitarian aid workers and diplomats are engaging with vulnerable populations in areas once considered too dangerous to touch. Drawi...
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730,37 zł |
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Lessons from Aceh: Key Considerations in Post-Disaster Reconstruction
ISBN: 9781853397004 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 devastated the coastline in Aceh province on the northern tip of Indonesia leaving 167,000 people dead and over half a million people without homes. This resulted in an unprecedented humanitarian response. Over the next three years the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) Member Agencies collectively constructed almost 20,000 houses in Aceh, in addition to numerous schools and health centers. In Lessons from Aceh, their experiences are used as a case study to illustrate the practical realities of delivering a successful program and the range of issues...
The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 devastated the coastline in Aceh province on the northern tip of Indonesia leaving 167,000 people dead and over half ...
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129,56 zł |
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Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America
ISBN: 9780813547749 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Katrina's Imprint highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy. Published on the firth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the multidisciplinary volume reflects on how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region. Essays examine the intersecting vulnerabilities that gave rise to the disaster; explore the cultural and psychic legacies of the storm, reveal how the process of...
Katrina's Imprint highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public...
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182,60 zł |
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Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America
ISBN: 9780813547732 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Katrina's Imprint highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public policy. Published on the firth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the multidisciplinary volume reflects on how history, location, access to transportation, health care, and social position feed resilience, recovery, and prospects for the future of New Orleans and the Gulf region. Essays examine the intersecting vulnerabilities that gave rise to the disaster; explore the cultural and psychic legacies of the storm, reveal how the process of...
Katrina's Imprint highlights the power of this sentinel American event and its continuing reverberations in contemporary politics, culture, and public...
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680,95 zł |
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A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
ISBN: 9780143118077 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of Men Explain Things to Me - -A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters- (The New York Times Book Review)
-The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years.- -Bill McKibben Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author... From the author of Men Explain Things to Me - -A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters- (The ...
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77,87 zł |
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The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe
ISBN: 9781442206267 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt. This new edition explores emerging themes, as well as ongoing issues that continue to besiege survivors. The book has been updated and revised throughout--from data about recovery efforts and environmental conditions, to discussions of major social issues in education, health care, the economy, and crime. The authors thoroughly...
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of t...
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697,42 zł |
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The Sociology of Katrina: Perspectives on a Modern Catastrophe, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781442206274 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of the modern catastrophe that is Hurricane Katrina. Five years after the storm, its profound impact continues to be felt. This new edition explores emerging themes, as well as ongoing issues that continue to besiege survivors. The book has been updated and revised throughout--from data about recovery efforts and environmental conditions, to discussions of major social issues in education, health care, the economy, and crime. The authors thoroughly...
The second edition of The Sociology of Katrina brings together the nation's top sociological researchers in an effort to deepen our understanding of t...
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230,64 zł |
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Being There When It Counts: The Proceedings of the 8th Rocky Mountain Region Disaster Mental Health Conference
ISBN: 9781615990399 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Will You Be There When it Counts?
"Being There When It Counts" is what Disaster Mental Health Services (DMHS) teams try hardest to achieve before, during and following disasters, critical incidents, crises, and terrorist activities. Although a relatively new field, these teams have quickly become an integral part of disaster and critical incident preparedness, mitigation, response, and follow up. DMHS began with Critical Incident Stress Debriefing and Critical Incident Stress Management. In order to continue to grow and meet identified needs, both continued development as well as focused... Will You Be There When it Counts?
"Being There When It Counts" is what Disaster Mental Health Services (DMHS) teams try hardest to achieve before,... |
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120,91 zł |
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Disaster Culture: Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Wake of Human and Environmental Catastrophe
ISBN: 9781598743883 / Angielski / Twarda / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors attempt to create meaning and control social relations in post-disaster struggles for the redistribution of power.
Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors attemp...
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808,63 zł |
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Disaster Culture: Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Wake of Human and Environmental Catastrophe
ISBN: 9781598743890 / Angielski / Miękka / 311 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors attempt to create meaning and control social relations in post-disaster struggles for the redistribution of power.
Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors attemp...
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192,97 zł |
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Administration and the Other: Explorations of Diversity and Marginalization in the Political Administrative State
ISBN: 9780739119112 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Administration and the Other examines the social construction of groups of people and resultant policy impacts in the discourse of the American Republic from before its founding to the present. The book suggests that from pre-revolutionary interactions between early colonialists and Native Americans to recent immigration debates, discourse on The Other has resulted in the development of policies that have led to further marginalization, community division, and harm to scores of innocents within the public sphere. Ultimately, Administration and the Other examines the construction of The Other...
Administration and the Other examines the social construction of groups of people and resultant policy impacts in the discourse of the American Republ...
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241,63 zł |
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