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Communicating Environmental Risk in Multiethnic Communities

Communicating Risk in Multicultural Communities examines methods used to inform multicultural communities of risks that either do or may affect their lives and has been made available in PDF.

Subtopics: Channels Of Communication, Message Content, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Phase 3 - Warning, Natural Disasters

Language(s): English

Ethnocultural Perspectives on Disaster and Trauma: Foundations, Issues, and Applications

Available at: www.springer.com/psychology/cross+cultural+psychology/book/978-0-387-73284-8

This book provides a range of perspectives and strategies for providing mental health services to diverse populations following a disaster.

Subtopics: Phase 5 - Psychological Impact, Natural Disasters

Language(s): English

Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

Available at: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=UIMzfeQQM5IC&dq=heat+wave+autopsy+of+a+disaster&printsec...

This book provides a qualitative assessment of the social and political factors which contributed to the 793 deaths attributed to the 1995 Chicago heat wave.

Subtopics: Organizational Supports, Phase 2 - Preparedness, Phase 4 - Physical Impact, Natural Disasters

Language(s): English

Hurricane Andrew: Ethnicity, Gender and the Sociology of Disasters

This book examines socioeconomic inequalities in the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew.

Subtopics: Phase 7 - Recovery, Phase 4 - Physical Impact, Natural Disasters, Phase 8 - Reconstruction

Language(s): English

Minority Citizens In Disaster

This book discusses how race and ethnicity contribute to behavior during a disaster. It focuses on the actions of Blacks, Whites, and Mexican Americans in various communities during different types of disasters.

Subtopics: Phase 6 - Response, Phase 4 - Physical Impact, Natural Disasters, Chemical

Language(s): English

Natural Disasters and Cultural Responses: Studies in Third World Societies

This book contains 8 articles which examine the role of cultural in disasters form an anthropological perspective.

Subtopics: Culturally Competent Care, Emergency Decision Making, Phase 1 - Risk Perception, Natural Disasters

Language(s): English

Protecting Your Family From Earthquakes: The Seven Steps To Earthquake Safety

Available at: pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2007/42/

This handbook teaches families what to do before, during and after an earthquake in the San Francisco Bay area.

Subtopics: Phase 7 - Recovery, Phase 2 - Preparedness, Natural Disasters

Language(s): English, Vietnamese, Spanish, Korean, Chinese

Race, Religion and Ethnicity in Disaster Recovery

This book uses four individual case studies to examine disaster recovery within the context of race, religion and ethnicity.

Subtopics: Phase 7 - Recovery, Phase 4 - Physical Impact, Natural Disasters

Language(s): English