Handbook of disaster research / edited by H. Rodriguez

1.What is a disaster--
2.A Heuristic approach to future disasters and crises : New old and in- Between types--
3.The crisis approach--
4. Methodological issus--
5.The role of geographic information system / remote sensing in disaster management --
6.Morbidity and mortality associated with disasters--
7.Race, class ethnicity and disaster vulnerability--
8.Gender and disaster : Foundation and direction--
9.Globalization and localization : an economic approach --
10.Local emergency management organization--
11.Community processis : warning and evacuation--
12.Search and activities in disasters --
13.Community processes : coordination --
14.Sustainable disaster recovery : ope rationalizing an existing agenda--
15.Sheltering and housing recovery following disaster--
16.Businesses and disasters: Vulnerability , Impact, and recovery--
17.Organizational adaptation and disaster --
18.Community innovation and disaster--
19.Disaster and development research and practice : A necessary eclecticism --
20.National planning and response : National system--
21.Disaster and crisis management in transitional societies commonalities and peculiarities --
22.Terrorism and disaster--]
23.Recent development in U.S. homeland security policies and their implications for the management of extreme events--
24.Unwelcome irritant or useful ally The mass in emergencies --
25.The popular culture of disaster : exploring a new dimension--
26.Remembering : community commemoration after disaster--
27.Research application in the classroom--
28.From research to praxis : the relevance of disaster research for emergency management --
29.Communicating risk and uncertainty : science ,, technology and disasters at the crossroads--
30.Crisis management in the twenty -first century : unthinkabl events in inconceivable contexts --
31.New dimensions : the growth of a marker in fear--
32.Disaster ever more reducing U.S.vulnerabilities