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Managing Disaster: Strategies and Policy Perspectives » Read Now
by Louise K. Comfort. 422 pgs.

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...disaster. Duke Press policy studies Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Disaster relief -- Management. 2. Disaster relief -- United States -- Management. 3. Disaster...
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Recovering from Catastrophes: Federal Disaster Relief Policy and Politics » Read Now
by Peter J. May. 190 pgs.

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...FROM CATASTROPHES Federal Disaster Relief Policy and Politics PETER...Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Disaster relief-Government policy- United States. 2. Disaster...
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Humanitarian Challenges and Intervention: World Politics and the Dilemmas of Help » Read Now
by Thomas G. Weiss, Cindy Collins. 242 pgs.

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...UNDRO U.N. Disaster Relief Office UNHCR...and/or natural disasters such as drought...provision of emergency relief, the symptoms rather...the costs of relief have...
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Flirting with Disaster: Public Management in Crisis Situations ("Governmental Involvement in Disasters" begins on p. 18) » Read Now
by Saundra K. Schneider. 208 pgs.

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Cracks in a Postdisaster Service Delivery Network, in American Journal of Community Psychology » Read Now
by David F. Gillespie, Susan A. Murty. 22 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...the ability to remove debris after a disaster, it is likely to take a great deal of...networks. Drabek et al. (1981) noted that disasters impose demands on organizations...
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Emergency Relief: The Distinctive Ecumenical Contribution, in The Ecumenical Review » Read Now
by Aaron Tolen. 4 pgs.

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...specialize in emergency relief work, because...that it takes a disaster to untie the purse...means of providing relief in times of disaster, I must inevitably...provide...
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Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America (Chap. Eight "Who Pays?") » Read Now
by Ted Steinberg. 298 pgs.

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Incredibly, the ten most costly catastrophes in U.S. history have all been natural disasters--seven of them hurricanes--and all have occurred since 1989, a period, ironically, that Congress has dubbed the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. Why this tremendous plague on our houses? While some...
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Incredibly, the ten most costly catastrophes in U.S. history have all been natural disasters--seven of them hurricanes--and all have occurred since 1989, a period, ironically, that Congress has dubbed the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. Why this tremendous plague on our houses? While some claim that nature is the problem, in fact, as environmental historian Ted Steinberg explains, historically speaking, much of the death and destruction has been well within the realm of human control. Surveying more than a century of losses from weather and seismic extremes, Steinberg exposes the fallacy of seeing such calamities as simply random events. Acts of God explores the unnatural history of natural calamity, the decisions of business leaders and government officials that have paved the way for the greater losses of life and property, especially among those least able to withstand such blows--America's poor, elderly, and minorities. Seeing nature or God as the primary culprit, Steinberg argues, has helped to paper over the fact that, in truth, some Americans are better protected from the violence of nature than their counterparts lower down the socioeconomic ladder. How else can we explain that the hardest hit areas have been mobile home parks and other low-income neighborhoods? Beginning with the 1886 Charleston and 1906 San Francisco earthquakes, and continuing to the present, Steinberg spotlights the defective approach to natural hazards taken by real estate interests, the media, and policymakers. By understating the extent of storm damage in news reports and offering quick repairs and cosmetic solutions to damaged property, fundamental flaws in the status quo go unremedied, class divisions are maintained, and unsafe practices continue unquestioned. Even today, with our increased scientific knowledge, he shows that reckless building continues unabated in seismically active areas and flood-prone coastal plains, often at taxpayer expense. Sure to provoke discussion, Acts of God is a call to action that must be heard before the next disaster hits.
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Crucibles of Hazard: Mega-Cities and Disasters in Transition » Read Now
by James K. Mitchell. 535 pgs.

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As a result of repeated experiences with devastating earthquakes, storms, floods, and wildfires, places like Tokyo, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are already identified with catastrophe in both scientific literature and popular culture. Similar prospects face less obvious urban...
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As a result of repeated experiences with devastating earthquakes, storms, floods, and wildfires, places like Tokyo, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are already identified with catastrophe in both scientific literature and popular culture. Similar prospects face less obvious urban candidates like Dhaka, Miami, London, Lima, Seoul, and Sydney. In this collaborative study of environmental risks in ten of the world's major cities, geographers, planners, and other experts examine the hazard experiences of case study cities and analyze their future risks. They conclude that the natural disaster potential of the biggest cities is expanding at a pace which far exceeds the rate of urbanization. In addition to tracing hazard trends and arguing in support of management reforms that can be implemented quickly, Crucibles of Hazard directs attention to long-term issues of safety and security that must be resolved to sustain urban areas. Opportunities for such innovative policymaking include: capitalizing on the role of hazards as agents of urban diversification; broadening the scope for employing hazard-based contingency planning models in other urban governance contexts; and mobilizing hazard myths and metaphors as unifying sources of inspiration for diverse and sometimes fractious metropolitan constituencies. This study was led by the International Geographical Union's Study Group on the Disaster Vulnerability of Mega-cities.
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Regionalizing Emergency Management: Counties as State and Local Government, in Public Administration Review » Read Now
by William L. Waugh Jr. 6 pgs.

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...reorganize FEMA and to amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5131) to...at least from the Flood Control Act of 1936 and the...
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Community Reconstruction after an Earthquake: Dialectical Sociology in Action » Read Now
by Ino Rossi. 190 pgs.

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Rossi develops a theory of the roles of "action" (social actor) and "structure" (sociopolitical resources, cultural resources, and economic resources) in disaster studies, using the data on community reconstruction after the 1980 earthquake in Southern Italy as a preliminary test of the theory. The...
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Rossi develops a theory of the roles of "action" (social actor) and "structure" (sociopolitical resources, cultural resources, and economic resources) in disaster studies, using the data on community reconstruction after the 1980 earthquake in Southern Italy as a preliminary test of the theory. The focus of the study is not the response during the emergency period which immediately followed the earthquake, but the long-term recovery and reconstruction of the 44 communities which were officially classified as the most heavily damaged. Aspects of the post-earthquake industrialization of the region are also considered, since the physical reconstruction of the destroyed communities is inevitably connected with their socioeconomic development. Rossi outlines and tests a new framework which permits prediction of the different speeds of community reconstruction, and provides a dialectic theory of the interrelationship between structural and action principles of social action.
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Illusions of Safety: Culture and Earthquake Hazard Response in California and Japan » Read Now
by Risa Palm, John Carroll. 119 pgs.

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...the face of this kind of disaster. However, rumors that Koreans...they did their utmost for the relief of citizens amidst dangers...processes of social change. When a...
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Relief Assistance to 1998 Flood Victims: A Comparison of the Performance of the Government and NGOs, in The Geographical Journal » Read Now
by Bimal Kanti Paul. 15 pgs.

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...performed better in distributing disaster relief in 1998 than it did in the period...study concludes by comparing the disaster relief performance record of the...
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Requiem for the Sudan: War, Drought, and Disaster Relief on the Nile » Read Now
by J. Millard Burr, Robert O. Collins. 386 pgs.

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...SUDAN War, Drought, and Disaster Relief on the Nile J. Millard...the Sudan: war, drought, and disaster relief on the Nile / J. Millard Burr...Politics and government--1985-...
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Children's Coping Assistance: How Parents, Teachers, and Friends Help Children Cope after a Natural Disaster, in Journal of Clinical Child Psychology » Read Now
by Mitchell J. Prinstein, Annette M. La Greca, Eric M. Vernberg, Wendy K. Silverman. 13 pgs.

Collections: Education, Psychology, Entire Library

...and brochures distributed by disaster relief organizations that recommend...are frequently recommended in disaster-relief materials ( FEMA, 1989...MD: Emergency Services...
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Escalating in a Quagmire: The Changing Dynamics of the Emergency Management Policy Subsystem, in Public Administration Review » Read Now
by Gary L. Wamsley, Aaron D. Schroeder. 10 pgs.

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...Clinton set a new standard for disaster relief (NAPA, 1993). He announced that...Shelter funds and $129 million in Disaster Relief payments from FEMA in fiscal...Recovering...
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The FEMA Phoenix, in Washington Monthly » Read Now
by Daniel Franklin. 5 pgs.

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...responsible for coordinating federal disaster relief, was nowhere to be found...federal involvement as does disaster relief. State and local governments...steps...