A very good idea. Here are five books:
"Environmental Health in Emergencies and Disasters " Ed: B. Wisner, J.
Adams. WHO,2002
"At risk" B. Wisner, P. Blaikie, T. Cannon, I. Davis. Routledge 2005
" Public Health Action in Emergencies Caused by Epidemics" P. Bres. WHO 1986
"The Public Health Cosequences of Disasters" Ed: E.K.Noji. Oxford
University press, 1997
" Community Emergency Preparedness, a Manual for Managers and Policy Makers"
WHO, 1999
Dr. Necati Dedeoglu, Antalya Turkey
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From: "John Twigg" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 2:18 PM
Subject: your top 5 disaster publications?
>I thought it would be interesting to find out what people regard as
>essential
> reading on disasters, so here is an invitation to everyone on the list to
> send
> me their top 5 books, papers or articles - things that you think are
> really
> essential for anyone working on any aspect of natural disasters.
>
> The deadline is 31st August 2009.
>
> Please send your choice to me (full citations would be helpful). If you
> send to
> the whole list, it may influence others and skew the results.
>
> I will collate the replies and send round the results - and then everyone
> can
> argue about it.
>
> In any case, it should be fun.
>
> best wishes
>
> John
>
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