Disasters Across Canada (Amazing Stories) (Amazing Stories (Altitude Publishing))
by Art Montague
Summary Report on Building Performance - 2004 Hurricane Season (FEMA 490)
by Federal Emergency Management Agency and U S Department of Homeland Security
FY2013 Supplemental Funding for Disaster Relief
by Jared T Brown and William L Painter
Protecting Emergency Responders - Volume 3
by Centers for Disease Cont And Prevention and National Institute Fo Safety and Health
Emergency Vehicle Visibility and Conspicuity Study (U.S. Fire Administration)
by Federal Emergency Management Agency and U S Department of Homeland Security
Our popular image of the era of the Great Depression is one of bread lines, labor wars, and leftist firebrands. Absent from this picture are religiously motivated social reformers, notably Catholic clergy and laity. In A Catholic New Deal, Kenneth Heineman rethinks the religious roots of labor organizing and social reform in America during the 1930s. He focuses on Pittsburgh, the leading industrial city of the time, a key center for the rise of American labor, and a critical Democratic power bas...
The climate, which had been relatively stable for centuries, is well into a new and dangerous phase. In 2020 there were 22 weather and climate disasters in the United States, which resulted in 262 deaths. Each disaster cost more than a billion dollars to repair. This dangerous trend is continuing with unprecedented heat waves, extended drought, extraordinary wildfire seasons, torrential downpours, and increased coastal and river flooding. Reducing the causes of the changing climate is the urgent...
A timely, politically savvy examination of how impossible disasters shape the very real possibilities of our world Why would the normally buttoned-down national security state imagine lurid future scenarios like a zombie apocalypse? In Training for Catastrophe, author Lindsay Thomas shows how our security regime reimagines plausibility to focus on unlikely and even unreal events rather than probable ones. With an in-depth focus on preparedness (a pivotal, emergent national security paradigm sin...
Us Air Force Search and Rescue Survival Training
by Department of the Air Force
Dealing with the unthinkable It's never going to be you. Then one day you hear the clatter of automatic fire at the mall. You have been drawn into the chaos and terror of an active shooter event. What do you do? Who do you turn to? Be a Hero is the essential guide to terrorist attacks that will help you survive. Former Special Air Service terror expert John Geddes will explain how to cope with a life-threatening event. He shows you how to make clear decisions and beat the odds by: Dealing wit...
Joint Evaluation of European Union Programme Food Aid
by Edward J. Clay and etc.
Techniques for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings (FEMA 547)
by Federal Emergency Management Agency and U S Department of Homeland Security
Collaborative Resilience (Collaborative Resilience) (The MIT Press)
Crisis--whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence--can offer opportunities for collaboration, consensus building, and transformative social change. Communities often experience a surge of collective energy and purpose in the aftermath of crisis. Rather than rely on government and private-sector efforts to deal with crises through prevention and mitigation, we can harness post-crisis forces for recovery and change through innovative collabora...