Overview: Includes contributions from experts across fields as diverse as sociology, economics, and public administration.Highlights the lessons learned from fieldwork and experience of crisis responders and ma.Crises occur in all societies across world, and can be natural (such as hurricanes, flooding, and earthquakes), man-made (such as wars and economic downturns), or, often, a combination of both (such as famines, the flooding of New Orleans in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina and subsequent levy failures, and the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011). Crises cause fatali
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