The Human Side of Disaster, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Drabek, Thomas E

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 433
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Experiences The Taxi The Setting The Story The Earring The Setting The Story The Honeymoon The Setting The Story The Ceiling The Setting The Story The Regulation The Setting The Story The Exercise The Setting The Story The Insights The Problem and Approach The Danger around You Is Increasing Population Movement Climate Change Potentials for Catastrophe The Many Faces of Disaster Natural Disasters Technological Disasters Conflict Disasters The Approach The Insights Hear That Siren? Who Panics and Why Neutralizing Threat Information Doing It Right But Not Everyone Responds the Same Females Child. Read more...

Abstract: Experiences The Taxi The Setting The Story The Earring The Setting The Story The Honeymoon The Setting The Story The Ceiling The Setting The Story The Regulation The Setting The Story The Exercise The Setting The Story The Insights The Problem and Approach The Danger around You Is Increasing Population Movement Climate Change Potentials for Catastrophe The Many Faces of Disaster Natural Disasters Technological Disasters Conflict Disasters The Approach The Insights Hear That Siren? Who Panics and Why Neutralizing Threat Information Doing It Right But Not Everyone Responds the Same Females Child

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover
Contents
Foreword to the first edition
Foreword to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
author
Chapter 1 --
Experiences
Chapter 2 --
The Problem and Approach
Chapter 3 --
Hear That Siren?
Chapter 4 --
It Can't Be Done
Chapter 5 --
Shall We Leave?
Chapter 6 --
Why Me?
Chapter 7 --
Volunteers? You Bet!
Chapter 8 --
Organized Disorganization
Chapter 9 --
Life in a Fishbowl
Chapter 10 --
What about My Psyche?
Chapter 11 --
What Must Be Done?
Chapter 12 --
Community Change Agents
Notes
Suggested Readings
Back Cover

✦ Subjects

Disasters -- Psychological aspects. Emergency management.