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Natural Disasters is a collection of twelve short stories that feature a variety of narrators as they interact with the ones they love. In these stories, characters experience puberty, friendship, love, loss, trauma, and the everyday magic of living as they fight to master their own failings. Those lucky enough find solace in the forgiving beauty of nature, while others succumb to the untamable power of its disasters. This thesis is useful, important, and unique as it focuses on the stories of a variety of characters, mostly women and children, and displays the beauty and fearsome power of nature as the characters strive to achieve their goals. In today's political and social climate, women, children, and nature are often taken for granted, underestimated, and even forgotten about. Here, they are anything but forgotten. Women join together to fight trauma, children stand together and face some of today's worst natural disasters, and nature is portrayed as a source of magic. This thesis gives these characters a voice and shines a spotlight on their importance to the world and society as a whole. ; 2017-12-01 ; M.F.A. ; Arts and Humanities, English ; Masters ; This record was generated from author submitted information.

What is a disaster? -- Rome's disasters -- The disaster experience -- Dealing with the aftermath -- Thinking about disaster -- A culture of risk -- Narratives of disaster -- Inflicting catastrophe -- The psychological impact -- Roman disasters in context

Intro -- 1 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6b -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 16 -- 19 -- 20 -- 24b -- 27 -- 28b -- 31 -- 34 -- 42 -- 45t -- 10b -- 11 -- 12 -- 13 -- 14b -- 23 -- 33 -- 37 -- 38 -- 39 -- 41 -- 44 -- 18t -- 22t -- 26 -- 30t -- 32t -- 36t -- 40 -- What Happens in an Air Crash? -- The 9/11 Hijacking, 2001 -- The Tenerife Collision, 1977 -- Antarctic Volcano Collision, 1979 -- America's Worst Air Crash, 1979 -- Sucked into the Air, Paris, 1974 -- Indian Collision, 1996 -- Lake Constance Collision, 2002 -- Kinshasa Crash, 1996 -- Mid-Atlantic Crash, 1996 -- Concorde Disaster, 2000 -- The Hindenburg Disaster, 1937 -- Mountain Crash, 1985 -- Looking to the Future

By which I mean here the New Zealand housing markets (though how many other glaring New Zealand policy failures could the term be used of?). I’ve written a couple of columns for the Wellington magazine Capital on housing policy issues (here and here for the 2021 ones) and a few weeks ago the editor asked … Continue reading Unnatural disasters

British railways are one of the safest ways of travelling. That they are so is the result of painful lessons learnt over many decades, for there have been many hundreds of railway disasters. This book looks at some of the most famous as well as some that have been all but forgotten, matching graphic illustrations with eyewitness accounts of people who were there and the confidential reports of the accident investigators who worked out what had gone wrong. The book explores the reasons why accidents happen. Some are due to the carelessness of staff, others due to equipment failure or poor signa

Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright -- Preface -- Definitions and Essential Acronyms -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Abstract -- History of Technical Rescue for Animals -- Recent Legislation -- Resource Typing -- Fitness Guidelines -- Chapter 2: Incident Management -- Abstract -- National Response Framework and Emergency Support Functions -- National Incident Management System (NIMS) -- Command and Management -- Preparedness -- Resource Management -- Communications and Information Management -- Supporting Technologies -- Incident Command System -- Single Incident Command -- Unified and Area Command -- Managing Animals in Disasters -- Chapter 3: National Animal Response Capabilities -- Abstract -- Chapter 4: Animal Resource Typing -- Abstract -- Overall Function -- Composition and Ordering Specifications -- Components -- Composition and Ordering Specifications -- Components for Type 2 ASAR Technician -- National Qualification System -- Emergency Management Assistance Compact -- Mission Ready Packages -- Chapter 5: Preparedness Activities -- Abstract -- Human-Animal Bond -- First-Responders Save Lives -- Animal Emergency Preparedness Checklist -- Developing a Community Animal Response Team (CART) -- Training -- Equipment -- Personnel -- Community Recognition and Support -- Chapter 6: Monitoring and Activation -- Abstract -- Team Composition -- Chapter 7: The Assessment Process -- Abstract -- Components of an Assessment -- Tabasco Floods, 2007 -- The Big Ditch Pig Rescue, 2008 -- Chapter 8: Evacuation and Transportation -- Abstract -- Evacuation Planning -- Sheltering Options -- Assisted Evacuation -- Define Roles and Responsibilities -- Develop an Animal Evacuation Planning Committee -- Identify Locations That Can Be Used for Embarkation/Collection Points -- Identify Locations for Co-Located and Cohabitated Shelters

Dramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with shock and horror by millions of us across the world. What we rarely see, however, are the international politics of disaster aid, mitigation and prevention that condition the collective response to natural catastrophes around the world. In this book, respected Canadian environmental sociologist John Hannigan argues that the global community of nations has failed time and again in establishing an effective and binding multilateral mechanism for coping with disasters, especially in the more vulnerable countries of the South. Written in an accessible and even-handed manner, Disasters without Borders it is the first comprehensive account of the key milestones, debates, controversies and research relating to the international politics of natural disasters. Tracing the historical evolution of this policy field from its humanitarian origins in WWI right up to current efforts to cast climate change as the prime global driver of disaster risk, it highlights the ongoing mismatch between the way disaster has been conceptualised and the institutional architecture in place to manage it. The book's bold conclusion predicts the confluence of four emerging trends - politicisation/militarisation, catastrophic scenario building, privatisation of risk, and quantification, which could create a new system of disaster management wherein 'insurance logic' will replace humanitarian concern as the guiding principle. Disasters Without Borders is an ideal introductory text for students, lecturers and practitioners in the fields of international development studies, disaster management, politics and international affairs, and environmental geography/sociology.

Dramatic scenes of devastation and suffering caused by disasters such as the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, are viewed with shock and horror by millions of us across the world. What we rarely see, however, are the international politics of disaster aid, mitigation and prevention that condition the collective response to natural catastrophes around the world. In this book, respected Canadian environmental sociologist John Hannigan argues that the global community of nations has failed time and again in establishing an effective and binding multilateral mechanism for coping with disasters.