Having an emergency response plan is essential. These books can help libraries of all kinds ensure that they’re prepared for any kind of calamitous event or natural disaster. Resilience is the art of ...

"Disasters by Design" refers not only to infrastructure ... for Risk and Disaster Reduction and is the author of multiple books on the subject of disasters, including Disaster by Choice.

A professor at Durham University, she co-founded its After Disaster Network, and has also written two books on the subject ... that I see are a failure of design," she said.

This week’s challenge is focused on books about disasters — natural or human-made — that were adapted for the screen. Just tap or click your answers to the five questions below. And scroll ...

Amanda Ripley's new book, The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes — And Why, is the thinking person's manual for getting out alive. In moments of total disaster — plane crashes or ...

The book delivers a compelling, comprehensive history of the disaster that exposed, as Higginbotham writes, how “the nation’s smartest minds had unwittingly sent seven men and women to their ...