Being a Crisis Chaplain delivers the essential elements of crisis chaplaincy, outlining the process of responding to crises with clarity and compassion. Drawing from real-world experiences and research, this is a concise but comprehensive toolkit fo...Lasīt vairāk
Responding to the global state of permacrisis, this book explores the relationship between applied theatre and disaster. It will be important to researchers and postgraduate students in applied theatre and disaster research in the social sciences, a...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the pervasive anticipation of catastrophe in contemporary society, examining how temporal expectations shape personal and collective experiences and influence our perspectives and responses....Lasīt vairāk
This book explains the role of geology as the basis of sustainability. It discusses how humans have altered natural balances and the unique dimensions that geology brings to understanding sustainability. This book provides sustainability-oriented so...Lasīt vairāk
This book analyzes social capital and preparations for natural hazards in the Philippines, arguing that economic inequality is detrimental to social capital which then makes societies more at risk of having natural hazards turn into disasters. It fe...Lasīt vairāk
All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: earthquakes, plague, warfare, soil erosion and subsistence crises. However, while some settlements were stable over the long term, other settlements proved more vulnerable to crisis. This...Lasīt vairāk
Capturing new waves of thought on resilience and recovery, Citraningtyas explores how people survive and make meaning in disasters by bringing together survivor experiences from natural disaster events in two vastly different cultural contexts....Lasīt vairāk
Illuminating the impacts of environmental disasters and climate crises globally, this book examines the experiences of teens grappling with eco-disasters and issues in films of the 21st century....Lasīt vairāk
Disasters in World History surveys the development of disaster studies as a discipline as well as the historical case studies and theories used by historians to understand disasters....Lasīt vairāk
This book argues that, although secular and religious perspectives on disasters have often conflicted, today there are grounds for believing that the worlds major faiths have much to contribute to the processes of post-disaster recovery and future d...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1984 Natural Disasters questions whether the rich nations usual response to disaster is any longer adequate. Today, most major disasters are development gone wrong, development which puts millions of poor people on the margin...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents a roadmap to help guide the actions needed to address health disparities introduced as part of the pre-planning, planning, and mitigation phases of natural and technological disasters....Lasīt vairāk
This book discusses in detail the facts and findings related to the X-Press Pearl container vessel accident that occurred in May 2021 off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Through many case studies, accumulated knowledge, and experiences, the authors...Lasīt vairāk
Delving into the intertwined tapestry of Jewish, Christian and Muslim sacred texts, exegesis, philosophy, theology, and historiography, this book explores the similar coping mechanisms across Abrahamic communities in reconciling the implications of...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents different aspects of place-making in displacement in the Pacific Rim region. It will be of interest to academics in the fields of area studies, political science, disaster planning and human geography....Lasīt vairāk
From the financial crash to the climate emergency and Covid, this book demonstrates that recent crises have had unequal impacts, that they require a heterodox approach to economics for their understanding, and new ways of thinking are needed to addr...Lasīt vairāk
How did early modern societies think about disasters, such as earthquakes or floods? How did they represent disaster, and how did they intervene to mitigate its destructive effects? This collection showcases the breadth of new work on the period ca....Lasīt vairāk
Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Hugues Séraphin, Vanessa G. B. Gowreesunkar
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Oct-2023, Izdevniecība: Apple Academic Press Inc., ISBN-13: 9781003387930)
Looks at how global threats affect the tourism industry and offers tools and strategies for meeting these challenges. It presents case scenarios and strategies for postcolonial, post-conflict, and post-disaster destinations to encourage travel and t...Lasīt vairāk
Environmental Hazards in the British Isles (1981) offers a comprehensive account of the various hazards affecting Britain. A three-fold methodology is suggested, which concentrates on their incidence, their causes and their frequency, and their impa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Sep-2023, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003440345)
This book focuses on centrifugal disasters where a mass of seemingly unconnected people are impacted due to a manmade disaster. It documents three major disaster events26/11 terror attacks and 13/7 blasts in Mumbai, and a hospital fire in Kolkata....Lasīt vairāk
