Facts about FEMA Household Disaster Aid: Examining the 2008 Floods and Tornadoes in Missouri

The 1998 Floods in Bangladesh: Disaster Impacts, Household Coping Strategies, and Response

The 1998 floods in Bangladesh : disaster impacts, household coping strategies, and response / Carlo del Ninno. .. [et al.]. Contents Tables v Figures ix Foreword xi Acknowledgments xiii Summary xv 1. Introduction 1

Tornadoes and disaster management: not just in Kansas, Dorothy.

After-action reports detailing the preparation, response, and outcomes after large tornadoes are sparse in the medical literature. Thus, the retrospective report by Ablah and colleagues1 in this issue of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, documenting the EF5 tornado that devastated Greensburg, KS, in May 2007, is a timely and important contribution to the growing disaster medicin...

Maintaining Food Security in the Wake of a Natural Disaster: Policy and Household Response to the 1998 Floods in Bangladesh

In 1998, Bangladesh was devastated by the worst flood of the century. At their peak, the 1998 floods covered two thirds of Bangladesh, causing severe damage to the major rice crop and threatening the food security of tens of millions of households. Ultimately, well-functioning private markets, suitable government policies, and public and NGO interventions combined with effective private coping ...

identifying the strategies persian efl learners use in reading an expository text in english and examining its relation to reading-proficiency and motivation: a think-aloud study

هدف اصلی از این مطالعه بررسی نوع و میزان استراتژی هایی بود که دانشجویان فارسی زبان رشته ی زبان انگلیسی در حین خواندن یک متن انگلیسی به کار گرفتند. این مطالعه همچنین به بررسی تفاوت های استراتژی های مورد استفاده بین دارندگان سطح بالا و پایین درک مطلب پرداخت. نوع همبستگی بین استراتژی به کار گرفته و درک مطلب از یک سو و استراتژی به کار گرفته و انگیزه از سوی دیگر نیز در این تحقیق مورد آزمایش قرار گرف...

Unnatural Disaster: Human Factors in the Mississippi Floods