Bogen beskriver de farer, som har indflydelse på de systemer, som samfundet er afhængige af opdelt i fem kategorier: naturkatastrofer, industrielle ulykker, smitsomme sygdomme, terrorisme og fødevaresikkerhed, altså det moderne samfunds sårbarhed over for katastrofer af enhver a…
An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe. An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, w…
The difference between citizen volunteers and official responders lies in the combination of training, experience, connection to official resources, and the authority to conduct operations, not in the willingness to help. Acknowledging that success in disaster response is based …
Computer Incident Response and Forensics Team Management provides security professionals with a complete handbook of computer incident response from the perspective of forensics team management. This unique approach teaches readers the concepts and principles they need to conduc…
This book includes perspectives from around the globe and explores the implications at the policy, programme, and personal level, discussing issues such as: 1. How can national laws, policies, and regulations provide guidance, methods and strategies to integrate and coordinate i…
Shocks, from natural disasters to military catastrophes, have long been exploited by the state to impose privatization, cuts and rampant free markets. This book argues that the left can use such moments of chaos to achieve emancipation. Graham Jones illustrates how everyone can …
From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared responsibility for the damages ca…
