Safer Homes, Stronger Communities

Most sensible practices in post-disaster housing and group reconstruction are continuously evolving. The frequency and severity of failures are expanding and know-how is altering how reconstruction is finished. Reconstruction initiatives needs to more and more concentrate on the necessity to decrease destiny dangers by way of making sure that what's rebuilt is more secure and extra disaster-resilient than what was once there sooner than.

Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

Because the early Nineteen Nineties, refugee crises within the Balkans, imperative Africa, the center East, and West Africa have ended in the foreign unfold of civil battle. In critical Africa on my own, greater than 3 million humans have died in wars fueled, no less than partly, via across the world supported refugee populations.

Shipwrecks of Stellwagen Bank: Disaster in New England's National Marine Sanctuary

Underneath the churning floor of Stellwagen financial institution nationwide Marine Sanctuary relaxation the bones of shipwrecks and sailors alike. Massachusetts� ports hooked up its voters to the area, and the variety of service provider and fishing vessels grew along the nation�s improvement. enormous quantities of ships sank at the alternate routes and fishing grounds among Cape Cod and Cape Ann.

Disaster Management in Archives, Libraries and Museums

This crucial publication assesses the present nation of catastrophe administration in files, libraries and museums within the united kingdom and around the globe, and offers thoughts for addressing present and destiny threats. Following an introductory define of the subject and terminology, the authors supply a brief historical past of the advance of catastrophe administration within the cultural historical past region.