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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.

Market economies are intrinsically unstable. The standard search model of equilibrium unemployment, once solved accurately with a globally nonlinear algorithm, gives rise endogenously to rare disasters. Intuitively, in the presence of cumulatively large negative shocks, inertial wages remain relatively high, and reduce profits. The marginal costs of hiring run into downward rigidity, which stems from the trading externality of the matching process, and fail to decline relative to profits. Inertial wages and rigid hiring costs combine to stifle job creation flows, depressing the economy into disasters. The disaster dynamics are robust to extensions to home production, capital accumulation, and recursive utility. (JEL E22, E23, E24, E32, J41, J63, N12)

On Disasters in India is a comprehensive compilation of extensive research on disasters in India. It unfolds the pitfalls in research so far and insists on a fresh paradigm in the methodology for accessing research on disasters. The book reconstructs a researchscape and examines the three time periods of study of disasters, namely, the phase of awareness, indifference and recognition. The narrative is built across the colonial, independence and post-globalisation years. The 4004 references, located, classified and collated figuratively and categorically in the book, form the groundwork for any research pertaining to disasters in India. The collection is indispensable to postgraduate students, researchers, disaster managers and policy-makers who are keenly involved in research or in providing solutions to disasters