Author: Judith Kolberg
Publisher: Squall Press
Keywords: disaster, natural, unnatural, home, family, prepare, organize
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2005-02-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0966797043
ISBN-13: 9780966797046

The world is a more dangerous place than it used to be. Organize for Disaster: Prepare Your Family and Your Home for Any Natural or Unnatural Disaster engages that danger head-on. It advises preparing for disasters as part of everyday life instead of as an urgent event in the heat of the moment. Organize for Disaster provides organizing tools including shopping lists for purchasing disaster provisions, storage ideas, sample plans for communicating, evacuating and escaping, and checklists. The book recognizes the entire family can be involved in preparedness and includes a What Children Can Do

Authors:et al, Margaret Arnold,
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: disaster, risk, management, studies, case, hotspots, natural
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2006-06-26
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0821363328
ISBN-13: 9780821363324

These case studies complement the earlier groundbreaking work of Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis published in April 2005. Three case studies address specific hazards: landslides, storm surges and drought. An additional, three case studies address regional multi-hazard situations in Sri Lanka, the Tana River basin in Kenya, and the city of Caracas, Venezuela.

Author: Gerard Blokdijk
Publisher: Emereo Pty Ltd
Keywords: disaster, recovery, planning, services, continuity, secrets, success, business
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2008-01-27
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0980471664
ISBN-13: 9780980471663

There has never been a Disaster Recovery manual like this. 100 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of Disaster Recovery. Instead, it answers the top 100 questions that we are asked and those we come across in forums, our consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those questions, with tips that have never before been offered in print. This book is also not about Disaster Recovery’s best practice and standards details. Instead it introduces everything you want to know to be successful with Disaster Recovery.

Authors:Alcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, Anne Carli,
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: disaster, risk, management, future, safer, cities, building
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2003-08-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0821354973
ISBN-13: 9780821354971

In developing countries, disasters can cause major setbacks to economic and social development, inflict massive casualties, and cause the diversion of funds from development to emergency relief and recovery. This work shows how communities and governments can be more resilient when disaster strikes

Authors:Maxx Dilley, Robert S. Chen, Uwe Deichmann, Arthur
Publisher: World Bank Publicatio
Keywords: risk, disaster, analysis, management, global, hotspots, natural
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0821359304
ISBN-13: 9780821359303

Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in economic losses each year around the world. Many billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance, emergency loans, and development aid are expended annually. Yet efforts to reduce the risks of natural hazards remain largely uncoordinated across different hazard types and do not necessarily focus on areas at highest risk of disaster. Natural Disaster Hotspots presents a global view of major natural disaster risk hotspots ¡V areas at relatively

Authors:Alcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, Christopher Barham,
Publisher: Disaster Management Facility
Keywords: disaster, risk, investment, management, series, mitigation, market, mexico, managing, incentives
Number of Pages: 57
Published: 1999-06
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0821344919
ISBN-13: 9780821344910

Author: Julie Karner
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Keywords: alert, disaster, space, meteorite
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2005-11
List price: $26.60
ISBN-10: 0778715833
ISBN-13: 9780778715832

Ages 7 to 14 years. The last century has been an incredible age of space exploration tremendously expanding our knowledge of the universe. This book chronicles both the brave and adventurous space missions throughout history that have ended in disaster in their quest to further our knowledge as well as an asteroid’s journey through the atmosphere to its eventual impact on Earth. Topics include: the dangers of space exploration; the aftermaths of meteorite hits and failed space missions; famous natural space disasters; how scientists study natural space disasters; how natural and space e