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23 lug 2024 · 1 Crises and Disasters. Crises and disasters are a constituent part of our lives and have increased in number and impact since the 1950s (Robert and Lajtha 2002; Handmer and Dovers 2007 ). The Emergency Event Database (EM-DAT) has shown that the 387 natural hazards and disasters that occurred worldwide from 2002 to 2022 affected 185 million ...
21 ore fa · Clockwise from top-left: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis kills upwards of 138,373 in Myanmar and became the 7th-deadliest cyclone of all time; the 2008 Summer Olympics are held in Beijing, China whilst a series of unrest in Tibet was occurring against the games; an earthquake in Sichuan kills over 87,000 and became the 18th-deadliest ...
21 ore fa · In the history departments of British universities in 2007, of the 5723 faculty members, 1644 (29%) identified themselves with social history while political history came next with 1425 (25%). The "old" social history before the 1960s was a hodgepodge of topics without a central theme, and it often included political movements, like Populism, that were "social" in the sense of being outside ...
21 ore fa · While the crisis was quickly defused by the Pakistan military, the next day, before some 120 Pakistani army officers stationed in Iran on the road to hajj, Khomeini said, "it is a cause of joy that… all Pakistan has risen against the United States" and the struggle is not that of the US and Iran but "the entire world of disbelief and the world of Islam".
