Emergency management seems more and more in the foreground in recent years as disaster after disaster strikes or threatens and seems to be met with...

In 1996, the United States and more than 180 world leaders pledged to halve the number of undernourished people globally by 2015 from the 1990 leve...

The nutrition title of the omnibus 2008 "farm bill" is the focus of legislation affecting domestic food assistance programs in the 110th Congress. ...

Hurricane Katrina was the largest and most costly disaster in American history. More than 1,400 Louisiana residents lost their lives. Katrina produ...

The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) system, operational since mid 2007, rapidly estima...

The five voluntary organisations the authors reviewed are highly diverse in their focus and response structures. They also constitute a major sourc...

For those who think that 2012 is the year for Armageddon, then you might take courage from this book on mass trauma and its companion book on indiv...

Although the Cold War is over, the world is awash with nuclear weapons and materials. There is a high probability for a nuclear disaster involving ...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the practices, types and challenges in prisons and prison systems. Topics discus...

Early one spring morning, disaster struck San Francisco, and a young man grabbed his camera and started documenting the destruction and death surro...