Handbook of disaster research / edited by Havid́́án Rodríguez, Enrico L. Quarantelli, Russell R. Dynes ; with forewords by William A. Anderson, Patrick J. Kennedy, Everett Ressler.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. What is a disaster? / Ronald W. Perry
- 2. A heuristic approach to future disasters and crises : new, old, and in-between types / E. L. Quarantelli, Patrick Lagadec and Arjen Boin
- 3. The crisis approach / Arjen Boin and Paul 't Hart
- 4. Methodological issues / Robert A. Stallings
- 5. The role of geographic information systems/remote sensing in disaster management / Deborah S. K. Thomas, Kivanc Ertugay and Serkan Kemec
- 6. Morbidity and mortality associated with disasters / Linda B. Bourque, Judith M. Siegel, Megumi Kano and Michele M. Wood
- 7. Race, class, ethnicity, and disaster vulnerability / Bob Bolin
- 8. Gender and disaster : foundations and directions / Elaine Enarson, Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek
- 9. Globalization and localization : an economic approach / J. M. Albala-Bertrand
- 10. Local emergency management organizations / David A. McEntire
- 11. Community processes : warning and evacuation / John H. Sorensen and Barbara Vogt Sorensen
- 12. Search and rescue activities in disasters / Margarita Poteyeva, Megan Denver, Lauren E. Barsky and Benigno E. Aguirre
- 13. Community processes : coordination / Thomas E. Drabek
- 14. Sustainable disaster recovery : operationalizing and existing agenda / Gavin P. Smith and Dennis Wenger
- 15. Sheltering and housing recovery following disaster / Walter Gillis Peacock, Nicole Dash and Yang Zhang
- 16. Businesses and disasters : vulnerability, impact, and recovery / Kathleen J. Tierney
- 17. Organizational adaptation to disaster / Gary A. Kreps and Susan Lovegren Bosworth
- 18. Community innovation and disasters / James M. Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf
- 19. Disaster and development research and practice : a necessary eclecticism? / Maureen Fordham
- 20. National planning and response : national systems / Neil R. Britton
- 21. Disaster and crisis management in transitional societies : commonalities and peculiarities / Boris N. Porfiriev
- 22. Terrorism as disaster / William L. Waugh, Jr.
- 23. Recent developments in U.S. homeland security policies and their implications for the management of extreme events / Kathleen J. Tierney
- 24. Unwelcome irritant or useful ally? : the mass media in emergencies / Joseph Scanlon
- 25. The popular culture of disaster : exploring a new dimension of disaster research / Gary R. Webb
- 26. Remembering : community commemoration after disaster / Anne Eyre
- 27. Research applications in the classroom / Brenda D. Phillips
- 28. From research to praxis : the relevance of disaster research for emergency management / Richard A. Rotanz
- 29. Communicating risk and uncertainty : science, technology, and disasters at the crossroads / Havidan Rodriguez, Walter Diaz, Jenniffer M. Santos and Benigno E. Aguirre
- 30. Crisis management in the twenty-first century : "unthinkable" events in "inconceivable" contexts / Patrick Lagadec
- 31. New dimensions : the growth of a market in fear / Frank Furedi
- 32. Disasters ever more? : reducing U.S. vulnerabilities / Charles Perrow.
