Recovery from Disaster

by Ian Davis and David Alexander

Book Overview

Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery--providing shelter, rebuilding safe dwellings, restoring livelihoods and shattered lives--generally fails to attract the attention of the public and most agencies. On average 650 disasters occur each year. They affect more than 200 million people and cause $166 trillion of damage. Climate change, population growth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415611776
• ISBN13: 9780415611770
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"