Environmental Disasters

DescriptionA disaster is an extreme disruption of the functioning of a society that causes widespread human, material, and environmental losses tha...

DescriptionDisasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, an...

Reducere. When natural disasters happen they grab headlines around the world. People, creatures, and the environment are all impacted when nature gets out of...

Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social challenges, revealing the gaps between abstract concepts...

What does Japan's 2011 nuclear accident have in common with the 2005 flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina? This thought-provoking book pr...

Reducere. Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in enviro...

In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focu...

DescriptionThis book is for a broad audience of practitioners, policymakers, scholars, and anyone interested in scenarios, simulations, and disaste...

Winner of the Gold Axiom Business Book Award 2019 in the Philanthropy / Non Profit / Sustainability category. Over the past 30 years, the world has...

DescriptionA socialist response to the looming ecological crisis As the Anthropocene advances, people across the red-green political spectrum seek ...

Reducere. Jennifer Renee Blevins's debut memoir, Limited by Body Habitus: An American Fat Story, sheds light on her experiences living with the emotional and...

Reducere. The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers....

Reducere. "Douglas Brinkley has written a sweeping, blow-by-blow account of the struggle to preserve the last great remnants of American wilderness. An engag...

Reducere. In Wild Focus, Earl Nottingham, chief photographer for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and its magazine, provides a unique perspective on Tex...

Reducere. In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic c...

Reducere. Hydrology is the field of science concerned with the study of the movement, management, and distribution of Earth's water. Studies on watershed sus...

Educating Social Entrepreneurs: From Idea Generation to Business Plan Formulation appears at a time of unprecedented environmental disasters, natur...

Reducere. For centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana's coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the region's fragile ...

When oil and gas exploration was expanding across Aotearoa New Zealand, Patricia Widener was there interviewing affected residents and environmenta...

Reducere. Bad Water is a sophisticated theoretical analysis of Japanese thinkers and activists' efforts to reintegrate the natural environment into Japan's s...

From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science...

Reducere. Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation is the first anthology to broadly collect solarpunk short fiction, artwork, and poetry. A new ge...

Reducere. DescriptionThe toxic legacy of Love Canal vividly brought the crisis in industrial waste disposal to public awareness across the United States and ...

DescriptionThe stunning graphic novel adaptation - A must-read and collector's item for fans of "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (N...

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Description"Mr. King looks at all our upcoming problems, and imagines a local reaction to each one. The result is often funny, usually sardonic, an...

Reducere. Something happened in early 2011 that hasn't happened in decades, perhaps centuries-and we didn't even notice it. That is, we didn't see it for wha...

Yuhudi Brown, a sommelier waiter with a second part-time job as an Uber driver; Sarah, an undocumented immigrant financier; and Jennifer, a deep-se...

A decade of mounting tension in a polarized America, from Wall Street to the rural heartlandA decade ago, Ken Light (born 1951) traveled across the...

A box set of Margaret Atwood's bestselling companioned novels, The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments In The Handmaid's Tale, environmental disaste...

Reducere. Atlantic (Tic) Brewer never knew her father, a hydrologist who died at sea before she was born. Raised by her mother and an elderly neighbor, Tic's...

Firefly meets The Expanse in a future where humanity has destroyed the Earth through ecological disaster and warfare, and a totalitarian state prev...

Reducere. Love. Honor. Protect. As an Environmental Studies major, Allie knows the planet is in trouble-a series of natural disasters recently rocked the nor...

Reducere. Making humankind in his image, God has designed us to understand how he thinks. We think in symbols, and so does God. God designed marriage not jus...

Reducere. Making humankind in his image, God has designed us to understand how he thinks. We think in symbols, and so does God. God designed marriage not jus...