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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Souvenir d'un tsunami humanitaire	Christophe Charbon	Le 26 décembre 2004, un tsunami ravage les côtes de 4 pays d'Asie et atteint au total 14 pays différents, provoquant la mort de 226 000 personnes. L'émoi est mondial. En écho à cet événement, une réa…	OL13645845W
Complete Survival Manual	Michael S. Sweeney	Provides survival information from the American Red Cross, U.S. Army, Boy Scouts of America, and the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. Covers preparation, shelter, food, water, fire, navigation, signaling, h…	OL15102477W
There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster	Chester Hartman	There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first critical scholarly book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down in record as one of the wor…	OL15178580W
Community resilience in natural disasters	Anouk Ride	"Told through the voices of local community leaders, this book analyzes how communities respond to natural disasters and how outsiders contribute positively--or negatively--to their response, promoti…	OL15916824W
A stranger's gift	Anna Schmidt	Hester Detlef, local Mennonite volunteer coordinator for disaster relief In Pincraft, Florida, defied the Old Order Mennonite tradition of limited education to get her college degree. Still single, H…	OL16624637W
Water scarcity in the Mediterranean	Damià Barceló,Sergi Sabater	"Water scarcity affects hydrologic resources, systems connectivity, biodiversity, water quality, and river ecosystem functioning. It has direct impacts on economic sectors that use and depend on wate…	OL16662462W
The Big Truck That Went By	Jonathan M. Katz	Published to glowing reviews, The Big Truck That Went By is a crucial look at a signal failure of international aid. Jonathan M. Katz was the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti o…	OL16813109W
Superstorm Sandy	Rachel Ann Bailey	This book provides a brief examination of Hurricane Sandy, which struck the United States Northeast in 2012. --	OL17880586W
Science and the storms	Gaye S. Farris	"Provides a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of the 2005 hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico as well as the important role of science in landscape restoration and community recovery"--Provided by…	OL18671267W
Living with floods	Imtiaz Ahmed	In the context of Bangladesh, contributed articles.	OL19239988W
Soldiers, peacekeepers and disasters	Thomas G. Weiss,Leon Gordenker	xv,118p. ; 23 cm	OL19455064W
Emergency preparedness	Boy Scouts of America.	Outlines requirements for pursuing a merit badge in emergency preparedness.	OL1966946W
The superstorm hurricane Sandy	Josh Gregory	This book examines the widespread damage and suffering caused by Superstorm Sandy and how people are working to rebuild and recover after this devastation. This book provides a brief examination of …	OL19968247W
The flood year 1927	Susan Scott Parrish	"The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, which covered nearly thirty thousand square miles across seven states, was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history. Due to the speed of new media and th…	OL20055816W
Recovery from the Indian Ocean Tsunami	Rajib Shaw	During the past 10 years following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, invaluable lessons have been learned and great changes have been observed. Immediately after the disaster, the second World Conferenc…	OL21703629W
Valor Untold	Richard D. Newton	It has been 42 years since the tragic November 1978 mass suicide/murder of American citizens at the Peoples Temple Agricultural Settlement in Jonestown, Guyana. In the intervening four decades, so mu…	OL26426693W
Homeland Security for the Private Sector	Roger L. Kemp	"This volume collects the best homeland security practices from the private sector for the use of business persons and citizens throughout the nation. It includes a wide range of essays published sin…	OL2686390W
Basics of International Humanitarian Mission (International Humanitarian Affairs, No. 2)	Kevin M. Cahill	A companion volume to Emergency Relief Operations, this book is a primer on designing, building, funding, and managing humanitarian action programs. Drawing their experience in such groups as Medecin…	OL3174355W
Chaos organization and disaster management	Alan Kirschenbaum	Analyzes definitions of preparedness, evaluations of risk, and set social structures that negatively impact formal disaster organization efficacy. Demonstrates the fundamental flaws of disaster mana…	OL5180316W
The great storm	Lisa Waller Rogers	A teenage boy keeps a diary of events during the devastating hurricane which struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900, and of the rescue operations that followed.	OL5951224W