Monongah (West Virginia and Appalachia)
by J Davitt McAteer and Davitt McAteer
New paperback edition with an introduction by Robert B. Reich Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster documents the events and conditions that led to the worst industrial accident in the history of the United States. This mining accident claimed hundreds of lives on the morning of December 6, 1907 and McAteer, an expert on mine and workplace health and safety, delves deeply into the economic forces and social-political landscape of the mining communities of north central W...
Black Death and Peasants' Revolt (Document Questions for Common Entrance S.)
by David Birt
Twenty disasters spanning more than a century are brought to life in this engagingly written volume. Among the true accounts dramatically retold are the deadly Mount Hood avalanche of 1927, the 1933 Tillamook forest fire (one of the worst in U.S. history), the devastating tsunami of 1964, and the 1903 flash flood in Heppner, which carried away a fourth of the town's inhabitants.
Children Separated by War
The separation of children from their families is one of the major humanitarian disasters caused by war. This problem does not only involve the identification and tracing of children who have become separated from their families, but also long-term social policy issues relating to fostering, substitute family care and other alternatives. This book includes: case studies of tracing and reunification programmes in Rwanda and the Great Lakes, Angola, and Liberia; analyses of problems and dilemmas i...
Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook demonstrates how the digital mapping and analysis tools of GIS technology can be critical for comprehensive preparation and quick response to disastrous events. This book takes readers through the five stages of management: identification and planning, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery and shows how GIS processes can be incorporated into each. With full-color maps, checklists, and the hard lessons learned from the real world of catastrophe r...
This unique title is the first comprehensive resource that standardises the principles and practice of disaster planning and emergency management. The area of disaster management is growing in significance and recognition for both public companies and private sector organisations. The Home Office is publishing an increasing range of guidance and the Cabinet Office issued a discussion document 'The Future of Emergency Planning in England & Wales' in August 2001. Tolley's Handbook of Disaster & Em...
On the morning of May 9, 1980, during sudden violent weather, a 600-foot freighter struck a support pier of the fifteen-mile Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The main span splintered and collapsed 150 feet into Tampa Bay. Seven cars and a Greyhound bus fell over the broken edge and into the churning water below. Thirty-five people died. Skyway tells the entire story of this horrific event. Through personal interviews and extensive research, Bill DeYoung pieces together the harrowing moments of the colli...
An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a bounce back. To Ian Goldin, Professor of Development and Globalisation at the University of Oxford, this is a retrograde notion. He believes that this crisis can create opportunities for change, just as the Second World War forged the ideas behin...
The Hanshin Earthquake was the largest disaster to affect postwar Japan and one of the most destructive postwar natural disasters to strike a developed country. Although the media focused on the disaster's immediate effects, the long-term reconstruction efforts have gone largely unexplored. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, David Edgington records the first ten years of reconstruction and recovery and asks whether planners successfully exploited opportunities to make a more sustainable and disaste...
Recent catastrophic events, such as the I-35W bridge collapse, New Orleans flooding, the BP oil spill, Port au Prince's destruction by earthquake, Fukushima nuclear plant's devastation by tsunami, the Wall Street investment bank failures, and the housing foreclosure epidemic and the collapse of housing prices, all stem from what author Thomas Fisher calls fracture-critical design. This is design in which structures and systems have so little redundancy and so much interconnectedness and misguide...
Report from Engine Co 82 (Chivers Sound Library American Collections (Audio)) (Highbridge Distribution)
by Dennis Smith
Surviving Disaster
Disasters both man-made and natural strike every population. Some communities are more resilient than others. Surviving Disaster: The Role of Social Networks is a timely tool for disaster planning and relief efforts, exploring the impact community ties-strong and weak-have on response to and recovery from disasters. The book covers the basics of disaster response and the role of social networks, providing essential terminology, theories, analysis, and case examples, with descriptions of methods...