Science, Terrorism, and Natural Disasters

The Rise of Terrorism and Major Natural Disasters Requires Grid

Mass trauma: disasters, terrorism, and war.

Disasters, war, and terrorism expose millions of children globally to mass trauma with increasing frequency and severity. The clinical impact of such exposure is influenced by a child's social ecology, which is understood in a risk and resilience framework. Research findings informed by developmental systems theory and the related core principles of contemporary developmental psychopathology ar...

Balancing Terrorism and Natural Disasters - Defensive Strategy with Endogenous Attacker Effort

In this paper, we apply game theory to identify equilibrium strategies for both attacker and defender in a fully endogenous model of resource allocation for countering terrorism and natural disasters. The key features of our model include balancing protection from terrorism and natural disasters, and describing the attacker choice by a continuous level of effort rather than a discrete choice (i...

Spiritually Sensitive Social Work with Victims of Natural Disasters and Terrorism

As a primary intervention, raising the topics of faith and religion with individuals traumatised by terrorism and/or natural disasters can be daunting for social workers, because victims often enter the helping relationship with feelings of helplessness, loss of personal control and of doubt about their relationships, environment, and their cultural and belief systems. Just as clients benefit f...

poverty and natural disasters

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