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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks Hazardous wastes, industrial disasters, and environmental health risks Francis O. Adeola "The sociology of hazardous waste, risk, and disasters is a relatively new discipline with an increasing volume of empirical research by scholars. Francis O. Adeola focuses this book on hazardous and… OL16604650W
The resilience dividend The resilience dividend Judith Rodin "New York. Athens. Boston. Tohoku. Newtown. Oslo. West. Wenzhou. New Orleans. Dhaka. Moore. Nairobi. These communities are just a few among the many that have been hit hard by one of the "wicked prob… OL19990776W
Inferno Inferno Steven Hatch "Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely cli… OL20050049W
Stress testing the USA Stress testing the USA John R. Short "The book provides detailed account of four major disasters that befell the USA in the first decade of the twenty first century: the invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the drowning of New Orlean… OL22642926W