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" Handbook of Disaster Research. "
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BL
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809496
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b623512
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Rodríguez, Havidán.
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Handbook of Disaster Research.
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| Publication Statement
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Dordrecht :: Springer,, 2007.
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Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems
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1 online resource (638 pages).
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9780387323534
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: 0387323538
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: 1281042889
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: 9781281042880
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What Is a Disaster; A Heuristic Approach to Future Disasters and Crises: New, Old, and In-Between Types; The Crisis Approach; Methodological Issues; The Role of Geographic Information Systems/Remote Sensing in Disaster Management; Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Disasters; Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Disaster Vulnerability; Gender and Disaster: Foundations and Directions; Globalization and Localization: An Economic Approach; Local Emergency Management Organizations; Community Processes: Warning and Evacuation; Search and Rescue Activities in Disasters.
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Community Processes: CoordinationSustainable Disaster Recovery: Operationalizing An Existing Agenda; Sheltering and Housing Recovery Following Disaster; Businesses and Disasters: Vulnerability, Impacts, and Recovery; Organizational Adaptation to Disaster; Community Innovation and Disasters; Disaster and Development Research and Practice: A Necessary Eclecticism; National Planning and Response: National Systems; Disaster and Crisis Management in T.
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Recent disasters, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, bomb explosions in London, Hurricane Katrina, the Pakistan Earthquake, floods in Central America, and landslides in Indonesia, among many others, have resulted in an extensive loss of life, social disruption, significant economic impacts to local and national economies, and have made headline news in countries throughout the world. Thus the Handbook of Disaster Research is a timely and much needed contribution to the field of disasters. The editors of this Handbook have brought together a comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume with a.
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Demography.
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Sociology, general.
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Public Health.
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Demography.
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Demography.
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363.34
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HV553
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Quarantelli, E. L., (Enrico Louis),1924-2017.
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Dynes, Russell R., (Russell Rowe),1923-2019.
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