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Books on: earthquakes disaster

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Managing Disaster: Strategies and Policy Perspectives

Book by Louise K. Comfort; Duke University Press, 1988

Subjects:

Disaster Relief--Government Policy--United States, Disaster Relief--Management, Disaster Relief--United States--Management

Collections: Entire Library

...and teaching in the field of disaster management. Louise K. Comfort...and 20, 1985, two massive earthquakes collapsed apartment buildings...clearly interact. Landslides and earthquakes, for example, damage roads...hazards rarely trigger natural disasters. One exception is the so-called...
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Recovering from Catastrophes: Federal Disaster Relief Policy and Politics

Book by Peter J. May; Greenwood Press, 1985

Subjects:

Disaster Relief--Government Policy--United States, Disaster Relief--United States--Political Aspects

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...hazards between major disasters. 5 For both...tornadoes, and earthquakes ranked lower than...relations , and earthquakes ranked last after...that the threat of disasters is of little concern...damages from "earthquakes, con orations for repair of disaster damages flagration...
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Chaos Organization and Disaster Management

Book by Alan Krischenbaum; Marcel Dekker, 2004

Subjects:

Disaster Relief, Disaster Relief--Israel, Emergency Management, Emergency Management--Israel

Collections: Entire Library

...beyond such natural disasters as floods, hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes, or wildfires...events * Natural disasters include avalanches...food shortages, earthquakes, epidemics/floods...being ready for earthquakes, and so on. If we extrapolate today, disaster organizations are...
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Disaster Mental Health Services: A Primer for Practitioners

Book by Diane Myers, David F. Wee; Brunner-Routledge, 2005

Subjects:

Disaster Relief, Disaster Victims--Mental Health, Disaster Victims--Mental Health Services, Disasters--Psychological Aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

This book assists clinicians and traumatologists in "making the bridge" between their clinical knowledge and skills and the unique, complex, chaotic, and highly political field of disaster. It combines information from a vast reservoir of prior research and literature with the authors' practical and ...
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This book assists clinicians and traumatologists in "making the bridge" between their clinical knowledge and skills and the unique, complex, chaotic, and highly political field of disaster. It combines information from a vast reservoir of prior research and literature with the authors' practical and pragmatic experience in providing disaster mental health services in a wide variety of disasters.
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Shared Vulnerability: The Media and American Perceptions of the Bhopal Disaster

Book by Lee Wilkins; Greenwood Press, 1987

Subjects:

Bhopal Union Carbide Plant Disaster, Bhopal, India, 1984--Public Opinion, Disasters--Press Coverage--United States, Fiction, Public Opinion--United States

Collections: Entire Library

"This book chronicles the American media's coverage of the 1984 chemical spill in Bhopal, India, and its aftermath in the US. It explains how the press reported about Bhopal and examines journalism's subsequent influence on public perceptions about technological safety. . . . It is an excellent ...
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"This book chronicles the American media's coverage of the 1984 chemical spill in Bhopal, India, and its aftermath in the US. It explains how the press reported about Bhopal and examines journalism's subsequent influence on public perceptions about technological safety. . . . It is an excellent addition to university collections in science writing, journalism criticism, and mass media research and should be useful to undergraduates at all levels." Choice
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Journal Articles on: earthquakes disaster

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Living with Earthquakes: Beliefs and Information

Journal article by Gary J. Lechliter, Frank N. Willis; The Psychological Record, Vol. 46, 1996

Subjects:

Danger perception--Research, Earthquakes--Public opinion

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

Living with earthquakes: beliefs and information...people deal with disasters that have already...examined coping with earthquakes in Californias...risk of a future disaster, whose timing is...unpredictable disaster. Personality and...future New Madrid earthquakes: A central US intensity...
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Acting on Disaster Diplomacy

Journal article by Ilan Kelman; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 59, 2006

Subjects:

Diplomacy--Analysis, Earthquakes--Political aspects, Earthquakes--Prevention, Emergency management--Analysis, Emergency preparedness--Analysis, Hurricanes--India, Natural disasters--Prevention

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...explored include the earthquakes in Greece and Turkey...preventing a drought disaster across southern...are related to disaster diplomacy. (68...phenomena include earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes...Ethiopia-Eritrea The disaster minimally influenced...started before the earthquakes...
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Seismic and Volcanic Hazards in Peru: Changing Attitudes to Disaster Mitigation

Journal article by Martin R. Degg, David K. Chester; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 171, 2005

Subjects:

Disaster planning--Analysis, Emergency management--Analysis, Peru--Domestic policy, Peru--Natural history

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...strategy of disaster mitigation. Exposure to earthquakes and volcanoes...humanitarian disasters caused by major offshore earthquakes during the...vulnerability and disasters 2nd edn Routledge...Bolt B A 1993 Earthquakes W H Freeman...
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Rethinking International Disaster Aid Finance

Journal article by Joanna Syroka, Richard Wilcox; Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 59, 2006

Subjects:

Disaster relief--Analysis, Disaster relief--Forecasts and trends, Disaster relief--Government finance

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...droughts, floods, storms and earthquakes further impoverish already...Victims of already longstanding disasters continued to suffer in places...aid covers drought, flood, earthquakes, cyclones, tsunamis, volcanic...against a background of manmade disasters such as conflict and health...
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Disaster Recovery Planning and Accounting Information Systems

Journal article by Steven J. Carlson, D.J. Parker; Review of Business, Vol. 19, 1998

Subjects:

Accounting departments--Safety and security measures, Crisis management--Planning, Disaster recovery (Computers)--Research, Information systems--Safety and security measures

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...Incidents of floods, earthquakes and hurricanes are examples of disasters that can seriously compromise...stressed. Specific examples of disasters are the fire that destroyed...Angeles and San Francisco earthquakes. These examples illustrate...

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Magazine Articles on: earthquakes disaster

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When Disaster Strikes

Magazine article by Klomjit Chandrapanya; UN Chronicle, Vol. 37, Winter 2000

Subjects:

Disaster relief--Management, Disasters--Prevention, Earthquakes--India, Gujarat, India Earthquake, 2001--Analysis, India--Natural disasters, LM Ericsson Telephone Co.--Services, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs--Services, Telecommunications equipment industry--Services, United Nations--Services, World Food Program--Services, World Health Organization--Services

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...ground shook. Disasters come in many...and man-made--earthquakes, floods, hurricanes...to monitor earthquakes and other world disasters. Similar offices...think about earthquakes because when...of linking disasters and their impact...
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Second Disaster Hits Turkey

Magazine article by Mark Bentley; The Middle East, January 2000

Subjects:

Disaster relief--Turkey, Earthquakes--Turkey, Turkey--Natural disasters

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SECOND DISASTER HITS TURKEY. by Mark Bentley...cold and bitter winter. The latest disaster was met with a mixture of horror, anger...In stark contrast to the 18 August disaster, national dailies praised the government...
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Hurricanes$, Earthquakes$, and Floods$

Magazine article by Richard Reeves; Washington Monthly, Vol. 26, April 1994

Subjects:

California--Natural disasters, Disaster relief--Political aspects, Expenditures, Public--Moral and ethical aspects, Natural disasters--Economic aspects

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Hurricanes$, earthquakes$, and floods$ by...are highly vulnerable to disaster and somehow recognize...settle. But under the Disaster Relief Act of 1974, the...to block reform of the Disaster Relief Act, screwing the...
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Disaster: The Shadow Map of Our Compassion

Magazine article by Ziauddin Sardar; New Statesman, Vol. 134, October 17, 2005

Subjects:

Earthquakes--Influence, Earthquakes--Pakistan, Earthquakes--United States, Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Influence

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Disaster: The Shadow Map of Our Compassion. by Ziauddin Sardar It is, by all accounts, the worst disaster in Pakistans history. Measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale...to exceed 40,000. And, as is usual now after a natural disaster, charities have leapt into action. Islamabad has been...
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Protecting Istanbul from Disaster: Turkish Officials Shift Priorities before the Next Big Quake

Magazine article by Cynthia G. Wagner; The Futurist, Vol. 40, May-June 2006

Subjects:

Earthquakes--Turkey, Emergency management, Emergency preparedness

Collections: Entire Library

Protecting Istanbul from Disaster: Turkish Officials Shift Priorities before the Next Big Quake. by Cynthia G. Wagner With an estimated 30 years to plan...

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Newspaper Articles on: earthquakes disaster

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Three Earthquakes Kill People in Western Iran

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), April 1, 2006

Subjects:

Earthquakes--Casualties

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...People in Western Iran. Three strong earthquakes and several aftershocks jolted western...The provincial head of the Unexpected Disaster Committee, Ali Barani, said no fewer...south of Boroujerd and north of Doroud. Disaster official Barani said that rescue teams...
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66 Killed as Iran Is Hit by Series of Earthquakes

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), April 1, 2006

Subjects:

Earthquakes--Casualties

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Daily Post Correspondent THREE strong earthquakes and several aftershocks jolted western...The provincial head of the unexpected disaster committee, Ali Barani, said no fewer...south of Boroujerd and north of Doroud. Disaster official Barani told the official Islamic...
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9000 DIE AS HUGE QUAKE HITS CHINA; DEATH TOLL MOUNTS AS SECOND DISASTER HITS ASIA Schools and Offices Crushed

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 13, 2008

Subjects:

Earthquakes--Casualties, Earthquakes--China, Schools--Casualties, Schools--China

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the deadliest since the 1976 Tangshan disaster, which left 240,000 dead. It posed a...organising committee said: "We considered earthquakes when building those venues." For much...wreckage of the school in Juyuan; SHAKEN: Disaster zone; MERCY MISSION: Aquake victim trapped...
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10,000 KILLED AS QUAKE HITS CHINA; DEATH TOLL MOUNTS AS SECOND DISASTER STRIKES ASIA Schools and Offices Crushed

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 13, 2008

Subjects:

Earthquakes--Casualties, Earthquakes--China, Schools--Casualties, Schools--China

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the deadliest since the 1976 Tangshan disaster, which left 240,000 dead. It poses a...organising committee said: "We considered earthquakes when building those venues." For much...wreckage of the school in Juyuan; SHAKEN: Disaster zone; MERCY MISSION: Aquake victim trapped...
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9000 DIE AS HUGE QUAKE HITS CHINA; DEATH TOLL MOUNTS AS SECOND DISASTER STRIKES ASIA Schools and Offices Crushed

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 13, 2008

Subjects:

Earthquakes--Casualties, Earthquakes--China, Schools--Casualties, Schools--China

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the deadliest since the 1976 Tangshan disaster, which left 240,000 dead. It posed a...organising committee said: "We considered earthquakes when building those venues." For much...wreckage of the school in Juyuan; SHAKEN: Disaster zone; MERCY MISSION: Aquake victim trapped...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: earthquakes disaster

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Antigua Guatemala

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...high), was continually subject to disaster from volcanic eruptions, floods, and earthquakes. In 1773 a series of earthquakes leveled the city. The Spanish...to a plain supposedly free from earthquakes and there founded Guatemala...
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Salvation Army

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...itself by its work with the armed services in both world wars and by its aid to those suffering in disasters, such as floods and earthquakes, all over the world. History The Salvation Army was founded by William Booth, with the assistance...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...making it the most expensive natural disaster in U.S. history. The following month...ability of the country to respond to major disasters of any kind. President Bush and state...particular seemed overwhelmed by the disasters scale and incapable of managing the federal...
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Algeria

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...earthquake devastated many towns east of the capital, killing more than 2,200 people. The ineffective official response to the disaster led to public outrage and widespread criticism of the government. Late in 2003, tensions between the president and Ali Benflis...
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Red Cross

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...international relief efforts following natural disasters, such as the massive cyclone and storm...hurricane that hit Honduras in 1974, and the earthquakes in Armenia (1988) and Turkey (1999...American Red Cross puts special emphasis on disaster relief, services to the armed forces...

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