Analyses the collaborative nursing response to a variety of global disasters that occurred between 1908 and 2012. The discuses the transnational character of disaster response, and examines how these transnational partnerships developed, their implications for policy, and how we can use lessons learned to improve care in the future.
Agenda Setting, Public Policy, and Focusing Events
Disasters like earthquakes are known as focusing events - sudden calamities that cause both citizens and policymakers to pay more attention to a public problem and often to press for solutions. This book explains how and why some public disasters change political agendas and, ultimately, public policies.
In September 1878, a late summer day trip to the Kent coast ended in tragedy when the paddle steamer Princess Alice collided with the coal ship Bywell Castle on the River Thames. Around 640 people died, making it one of the worst peacetime maritime disasters in British history after the Titanic. Despite the scale of the loss the disaster is ......
Peacebuilding, Health Crises, and Aid in Twenty-First-Century Guinea and Sierra Leone
In recent years, the capacity of civil society to respond to crises has been increasingly constrained by rising authoritarianism. Yet in West Africa, where civil society has historically played a pivotal role in democratization, this trend reveals deeper structural challenges. Unraveling of Civil Society examines how international aid strategies ......
We live in a fragile world. This much is evident as stories abound of natural disasters that wipe out communities in an instant. How can we survive the future on such a planet, amid intensifying climate change? This question is particularly poignant along the Ring of Fire, a tectonic belt in the Pacific region that routinely faces some of the most ......
We live in a fragile world. This much is evident as stories abound of natural disasters that wipe out communities in an instant. How can we survive the future on such a planet, amid intensifying climate change? This question is particularly poignant along the Ring of Fire, a tectonic belt in the Pacific region that routinely faces some of the most ......
While interconnections between humanitarian actors and military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts around the globe today, Military Humanitarianism challenges the idea that these interactions are a recent phenomenon. Instead, this volume offers an alternative interpretation to the traditional framing of military actors as ......
While interconnections between humanitarian actors and military operations are a pervasive feature of contemporary conflicts around the globe today, Military Humanitarianism challenges the idea that these interactions are a recent phenomenon. Instead, this volume offers an alternative interpretation to the traditional framing of military actors as ......
