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Handbook of Disaster Research

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 What Is a Disaster?
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    Chapter 2 A Heuristic Approach to Future Disasters and Crises: New, Old, and In-Between Types
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    Chapter 3 The Crisis Approach
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    Chapter 4 Methodological Issues
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    Chapter 5 The Role of Geographic Information Systems/Remote Sensing in Disaster Management
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    Chapter 6 Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Disasters
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    Chapter 7 Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Disaster Vulnerability
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    Chapter 8 Gender and Disaster: Foundations and Directions
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    Chapter 9 Globalization and Localization: An Economic Approach
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    Chapter 10 Local Emergency Management Organizations
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    Chapter 11 Community Processes: Warning and Evacuation
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    Chapter 12 Search and Rescue Activities in Disasters
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    Chapter 13 Community Processes: Coordination
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    Chapter 14 Sustainable Disaster Recovery: Operationalizing An Existing Agenda
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    Chapter 15 Sheltering and Housing Recovery Following Disaster*
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    Chapter 16 Businesses and Disasters: Vulnerability, Impacts, and Recovery
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    Chapter 17 Organizational Adaptation to Disaster
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    Chapter 18 Community Innovation and Disasters
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    Chapter 19 Disaster and Development Research and Practice: A Necessary Eclecticism?
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    Chapter 20 National Planning and Response: National Systems
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    Chapter 21 Disaster and Crisis Management in Transitional Societies: Commonalities and Peculiarities
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    Chapter 22 Terrorism as Disaster
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    Chapter 23 Recent Developments in U.S. Homeland Security Policies and Their Implications for the Management of Extreme Events
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    Chapter 24 Unwelcome Irritant or Useful Ally? The Mass Media in Emergencies
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    Chapter 25 The Popular Culture of Disaster: Exploring a New Dimension of Disaster Research
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    Chapter 26 Remembering: Community Commemoration After Disaster
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    Chapter 27 Research Applications in the Classroom
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    Chapter 28 From Research to Praxis: The Relevance of Disaster Research for Emergency Management
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    Chapter 29 Communicating Risk and Uncertainty: Science, Technology, and Disasters at the Crossroads
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    Chapter 30 Crisis Management in the Twenty-First Century: “Unthinkable” Events in “Inconceivable” Contexts
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    Chapter 31 New Dimensions: The Growth of a Market in Fear
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    Chapter 32 Disasters Ever More? Reducing U.S. Vulnerabilities
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Chapter title
Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Disaster Vulnerability
Chapter number 7
Book title
Handbook of Disaster Research
Published by
Springer New York, January 2007
DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-32353-4_7
Book ISBNs
978-0-387-73952-6, 978-0-387-32353-4
Authors

Bob Bolin

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 110 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 4%
Sweden 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 104 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 31 28%
Student > Master 14 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 13 12%
Researcher 9 8%
Student > Bachelor 9 8%
Other 20 18%
Unknown 14 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 50 45%
Environmental Science 14 13%
Arts and Humanities 4 4%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 4%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 4 4%
Other 16 15%
Unknown 18 16%