Handbook of disaster research

1. What is a disaster? / Ronald W. Perry

2. heuristic approach to future disasters and crises : new, old, and in-between types / E. L. Quarantelli, Patrick Lagadec and Arjen Boin

3. crisis approach / Arjen Boin and Paul 't Hart

4. Methodological issues / Robert A. Stallings

5. role of geographic information systems/remote sensing in disaster management / Deborah S. K. Thomas, Kivanc Ertugay and Serkan Kemec

6. Morbidity and mortality associated with disasters / Linda B. Bourque, Judith M. Siegel, Megumi Kano and Michele M. Wood

7. Race, class, ethnicity, and disaster vulnerability / Bob Bolin

8. Gender and disaster : foundations and directions / Elaine Enarson, Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek

9. Globalization and localization : an economic approach / J. M. Albala-Bertrand

10. Local emergency management organizations / David A. McEntire

11. Community processes : warning and evacuation / John H. Sorensen and Barbara Vogt Sorensen

12. Search and rescue activities in disasters / Margarita Poteyeva, Megan Denver, Lauren E. Barsky and Benigno E. Aguirre

13. Community processes : coordination / Thomas E. Drabek

14. Sustainable disaster recovery : operationalizing and existing agenda / Gavin P. Smith and Dennis Wenger

15. Sheltering and housing recovery following disaster / Walter Gillis Peacock, Nicole Dash and Yang Zhang

16. Businesses and disasters : vulnerability, impact, and recovery / Kathleen J. Tierney

17. Organizational adaptation to disaster / Gary A. Kreps and Susan Lovegren Bosworth

18. Community innovation and disasters / James M. Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf

19. Disaster and development research and practice : a necessary eclecticism? / Maureen Fordham

20. National planning and response : national systems / Neil R. Britton

21. Disaster and crisis management in transitional societies : commonalities and peculiarities / Boris N. Porfiriev

22. Terrorism as disaster / William L. Waugh, Jr.

23. Recent developments in U.S. homeland security policies and their implications for the management of extreme events / Kathleen J. Tierney

24. Unwelcome irritant or useful ally? : the mass media in emergencies / Joseph Scanlon

25. popular culture of disaster : exploring a new dimension of disaster research / Gary R. Webb

26. Remembering : community commemoration after disaster / Anne Eyre

27. Research applications in the classroom / Brenda D. Phillips

28. From research to praxis : the relevance of disaster research for emergency management / Richard A. Rotanz

29. Communicating risk and uncertainty : science, technology, and disasters at the crossroads / Havidan Rodriguez, Walter Diaz, Jenniffer M. Santos and Benigno E. Aguirre

30. Crisis management in the twenty-first century : "unthinkable" events in "inconceivable" contexts / Patrick Lagadec

31. New dimensions : the growth of a market in fear / Frank Furedi

32. Disasters ever more? : reducing U.S. vulnerabilities / Charles Perrow.