The International Response to Conflict and Genocide: Lessons from the Rwandan Experience
by Howard Adelman
World Disasters Report Focus on Reducing Risk
Disasters, both environmental and technological, continue to inflict unacceptable human and economic costs. The number of weather-related disasters has doubled between 1996 and 2002, and scientists are warning that global warming will bring more windstorms, more floods and more droughts. The challenge to reduce the heavy toll taken by disasters has never been more urgent. This report focuses on reducing disaster risk. How significant a role can mitigation and preparedness play in reducing disast...
Getting Started
by Federal Emergency Management Agency and U S Department of Homeland Security
2012 Emergency Response Guidebook
by Pipeline and Haza Safety Administration and U S Department of Transportation
When Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, hundreds of thousands were left behind to suffer the ravages of destruction, disease, and even death. The majority of these people were black; nearly all were poor. The Federal government's slow response to local appeals for help is by now notorious. Yet despite the cries of outrage that have mounted since the levees broke, we have failed to confront the disaster's true lesson: to be poor, or black, in today's ownership society,...
Famine (Ireland) (British Parliamentary Papers)
The dramatic failure of the potato crop in mid-19th century Europe caused widespread hunger and distress. In Ireland the impact was probably the greatest, where a million people died and many more emigrated. In this book, Austin Bourke seeks to explain how, from being welcomed originally as a protection against hunger, the potato became the very emblem of famine. The text brings together the author's papers, essays and research spanning a 30-year period. It places the onset of potato blight in i...
Of all the companies affected by the attacks of 11 September, none was more devastated than Cantor Fitzgerald, the financial services conglomerate, who lost 658 people. CEO Howard Lutnick survived only because he had taken his son to school that day. He vowed to restore the company. but how can you focus on work when your brother and best friend are among those murdered? How can you grieve when all the families are looking to you to be strong and help them? How can you help them when some o...