Safer Homes, Stronger Communities

Most sensible practices in post-disaster housing and group reconstruction are continually 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 specialize in the necessity to lessen destiny dangers via making sure that what's rebuilt is more secure and extra disaster-resilient than what was once there earlier 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, crucial Africa, the center East, and West Africa have resulted in the foreign unfold of civil struggle. In vital Africa by myself, greater than 3 million humans have died in wars fueled, a minimum of partly, by way of 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 leisure the bones of shipwrecks and sailors alike. Massachusetts� ports attached its voters to the realm, and the variety of service provider and fishing vessels grew along the nation�s improvement. hundreds of thousands of ships sank at the exchange 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 data, libraries and museums within the united kingdom and world wide, and gives ideas for addressing present and destiny threats. Following an introductory define of the subject and terminology, the authors supply a quick historical past of the improvement of catastrophe administration within the cultural background quarter.