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The Last Day
By: Shrady, Nicholas
Published by: Viking
A riveting history of how the cataclysmic Lisbon earthquake shook the religious and intellectual foundations of Enlightenment Europe. Along with the volcanic destruction of Pompeii and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the Lisbon quake of 1755 is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever recorded. After being jolted by a massive quake, Lisbon was then pounded by a succession of tidal waves, and finally reduced to ash by a fire that raged for five straight days. In The Last Day, Nicholas Shrady provides not only a vivid account of this horrific disaster but also a stimulating survey of the many shock waves it sent throughout Western civilization. When news of the quake spread, it inspired both a lurid fascination in the popular imagination of Europe and an intellectual debate about the natural world and Gods place in human affairs. Voltaire, Alexander Pope, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, among other eminent figures, took up the disaster as a sort of cause célèbre and a vehicle to express Enlightenment ideas. More practically, the Lisbon quake led to the first concerted effort at disaster control, modern urban planning, and the birth of seismology. The Last Day is popular history writing at its best and will appeal to readers of Simon Winchesters Krakatoa and A Crack in the Edge of the World.
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Price: $16.00
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Los desastres naturales y la proteccion de la salud
By: Pan American Health Organization (other)
Published by: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Estas pautas tienen por fin presentar un marco seguro para que los administradores adopten decisiones acertadas para la gestión de actividades del sector salud destinadas a menguar las consecuencias de los desastres. No se han formulado con la intención de abordar todas las situaciones imprevistas. De hecho, quizá sea preciso adaptar algunos de los procedimientos recomendados para atender ciertas necesidades locales. Abrigamos la esperanza de que esta obra ayude a preparar manuales adaptables a las condiciones locales. Los 14 capítulos y 4 anexos técnicos del libro describen los efectos generales de los desastres para la salud y ponen de relieve varios mitos y realidades. Aunque cada desastre tiene características singulares, hay varios rasgos comunes que pueden emplearse para mejorar la administración de la asistencia humanitaria en salud y el uso de los recursos disponibles.
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Price: $22.00
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Management of Dead Bodies After Disasters
By: Pan American Health Organization (other)
Published by: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
This Field Manual for First Responders presents simple recommendations for non-specialists to manage the recovery, basic identification, storage and disposal of dead bodies following disasters. It also makes suggestions about providing support to family members and communicating with the public and the media. This manual will be useful during the immediate response to a disaster and where forensic response is unavailable. Furthermore, it will be useful for those preparing mass fatality disaster plans. The recommendations are relevant for local, regional and national authorities as well as for non-governmental organizations.
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Manejo de Cadáveres en Situaciones de Desastre
By: OPS (ed.)
Published by: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Esta publicación proporciona un soporte técnico que justifica las acciones del estado para un correcto manejo de los cadáveres, tomando en cuenta las siguientes premisas: el cadáver producto de un desastre no constituye un riesgo infeccioso; nunca se deben enterrar a las víctimas en fosas comunes; bajo ningún punto de vista se debe proceder a cremar masivamente los cadáveres, en contra de las costumbres culturales y normas religiosas de la población, y; finalmente, es necesario agotar todos los esfuerzos para lograr una identificación de los cuerpos y, en última instancia, disponer/ubicar los cadáveres en nichos, trincheras o zanjas individuales, lo cual constituye un derecho humano básico de los familiares sobrevivientes.
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Price: $28.00
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Post-Katrina Recovery of the Housing Market Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast
By: McCarthy, Kevin F.; Hanson, Mark
Published by: RAND Corporation
In summer 2006, the Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding, and Renewal asked the RAND Gulf States Policy Institute to describe the state of the pre-Hurricane Katrina housing markets in Mississippi's three coastal counties, to estimate the damage the storm di
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Principles of Disaster Mitigation in Health Facilities
By: Pan American Health Organization (other)
Published by: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
The book focuses on problems encountered in areas of high risk for seismic events. It introduces the essential aspects of carrying out vulnerability assessments and applying practical measures to mitigate damage in hospitals, addressing structural and nonstructural aspects, as well as administrative and internal organization.
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Protección de la salud mental en situaciones de desastres y emergencias
By: Pan American Health Organization (other)
Published by: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
El objetivo de este libro es ser una guía práctica de planificación para actuar en el período agudo o crítico de una emergencia y no incluye el abordaje de los problemas psicosociales que surgen en el mediano y largo plazo. Se orienta al trabajo comunitario y promueve la coordinación entre las múltiples organizaciones que trabajan en el campo de la salud mental con enfoques, frecuentemente, diferentes.
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Protección de las nuevas instalaciones de salud frente a desastres naturales
By: OPS (ed.)
Published by: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
Protección de las nuevas instalaciones de salud frente a desastres naturales presenta un resumen de esas guías e incluye recomendaciones para promover su uso en la Región entre autoridades nacionales, planificadores y financiadores involucrados en el desarrollo de estos proyectos. Permite un acercamiento rápido y directo para comprender los beneficios sociales y económicos de la aplicación de medidas de mitigación en los procesos de diseño, planificación y construcción de instalaciones de salud y sobre todo, para saber cómo aplicarlas con el objetivo de alcanzar niveles de protección capaces, no sólo de garantizar la seguridad de las personas, sino la seguridad de la infraestructura y de la operación de los servicios.
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Protecting New Health Facilities from Natural Disasters
By: PAHO (ed.)
Published by: Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
This is the premise of the Guidelines for Vulnerability Reduction in the Design of New Health Facilities for those responsible for management, design, construction and inspection of new health facilities projects. The current publication is an overview of those guidelines and includes recommendations on how to promote their use among national authorities, planners and financing agencies involved in the development of these projects. It emphasizes the substantial social and economic benefits of applying disaster mitigation measures to the design, planning and construction of health facilities. Equally important, it describes how to apply these measures to achieve protection levels that not only ensure human safety but also the security of infrastructure and the continuity of services.
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Price: $14.00
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