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"This book explores societal vulnerabilities highlighted within cinema and develops an interpretive framework for understanding the depiction of societal responses to epidemic disease outbreaks across cinematic history. Drawing on a large database of twentieth- and twenty-first-century films depicting epidemics, the study looks into issues including trust, distrust, and mistrust; different epidemic experiences down the lines of expertise, gender, and wealth; and the difficulties in visualizing the invisible pathogen on screen. The authors argue that epidemics have long been presented in cinema as forming a point of cohesion for the communities portrayed, as individuals and groups "from below" represented as characters in these films find solidarity in a common enemy comprising of elite institutions and authority figures. Throughout the book, a central question is also posed: "cohesion for whom?", which sheds light on the inequality and contingency of the depicted subjects and embodiment of the characters. This book is a valuable reference for scholars and students of film studies and visual studies as well as academic and general readers interested in topics of films and history, and disease and society"-- Provided by publisher.

Epidemics in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- Cinema --- Epidemics --- Film Studies --- Social Vulnerability

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Natural hazard events are able to significantly affect the natural and artificial environment. In this context, changes in landforms due to natural disasters have the potential to affect and, in some cases, even restrict human interaction with the ecosystem. In order to minimize fatalities and reduce the economic impact that accompanies their occurrence, proper planning is crucial. Land use planning can play an important role in reducing current and future risks related to natural hazards. Land use changes can lead to natural hazards and vice versa: natural hazards affect land uses. Therefore, planners may take into account areas that are susceptible to natural hazards when selecting favorable locations for land use development. Appropriate land use planning can lead to the determination of safe and non-safe areas for urban activities. This Special Issue focuses on land use planning for natural hazards. In this context, various types of natural hazards, such as land degradation and desertification, coastal hazard, floods, and landslides, as well as their interactions with human activities, are presented.

Research & information: general --- sea-level rise --- storm surge --- physical vulnerability --- social vulnerability --- Peloponnese --- Greece --- urbanization --- flood --- remote sensing/GIS --- Birendranagar --- Nepal --- landslides --- geographic information system (GIS) --- frequency ratio --- density ratio --- human activities --- land use planning --- historic flood data --- old topographic maps --- GIS --- temporal and spatial distribution of flood events --- marshy areas and lakes --- flood hazard assessment --- Integrated land-use planning --- land degradation --- desertification --- policy --- phronetic approach --- n/a

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Natural hazard events are able to significantly affect the natural and artificial environment. In this context, changes in landforms due to natural disasters have the potential to affect and, in some cases, even restrict human interaction with the ecosystem. In order to minimize fatalities and reduce the economic impact that accompanies their occurrence, proper planning is crucial. Land use planning can play an important role in reducing current and future risks related to natural hazards. Land use changes can lead to natural hazards and vice versa: natural hazards affect land uses. Therefore, planners may take into account areas that are susceptible to natural hazards when selecting favorable locations for land use development. Appropriate land use planning can lead to the determination of safe and non-safe areas for urban activities. This Special Issue focuses on land use planning for natural hazards. In this context, various types of natural hazards, such as land degradation and desertification, coastal hazard, floods, and landslides, as well as their interactions with human activities, are presented.

sea-level rise --- storm surge --- physical vulnerability --- social vulnerability --- Peloponnese --- Greece --- urbanization --- flood --- remote sensing/GIS --- Birendranagar --- Nepal --- landslides --- geographic information system (GIS) --- frequency ratio --- density ratio --- human activities --- land use planning --- historic flood data --- old topographic maps --- GIS --- temporal and spatial distribution of flood events --- marshy areas and lakes --- flood hazard assessment --- Integrated land-use planning --- land degradation --- desertification --- policy --- phronetic approach --- n/a

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"Radiologists in emergency department settings are uniquely positioned to identify and provide effective, appropriate care to vulnerable patient populations. Emergency Imaging of At-Risk Patients fills a void in the literature by illustrating challenges in emergency and trauma imaging of vulnerable patients using a head-to-toe approach. Drawing on the vast clinical experience of emergency and trauma radiologists from the largest academic medical centers across North America, this reference presents basic and advanced emergency imaging concepts, relevant case studies, current controversies and protocols, and subtle imaging findings that help guide clinicians to efficient and accurate diagnoses and treatments"-- publisher's description.

Diagnostic Imaging --- Emergency Medicine --- Critical Care --- Emergency Medical Services --- Wounds and Injuries --- Emergencies --- Vulnerable Populations --- methods --- diagnostic imaging --- Patients, Underserved --- Populations, Underserved --- Sensitive Population Groups --- Sensitive Populations --- Disadvantaged Populations --- Disadvantaged Population --- Patient, Underserved --- Population Group, Sensitive --- Population, Disadvantaged --- Population, Sensitive --- Population, Underserved --- Population, Vulnerable --- Sensitive Population --- Sensitive Population Group --- Underserved Patient --- Underserved Patients --- Underserved Population --- Underserved Populations --- Vulnerable Population --- Social Vulnerability --- Emergency --- Emergency Treatment --- Medical emergencies --- Diagnostic imaging --- Clinical imaging --- Imaging, Diagnostic --- Medical diagnostic imaging --- Medical imaging --- Noninvasive medical imaging --- Diagnosis, Noninvasive --- Imaging systems in medicine --- Emergency medicine --- First aid in illness and injury --- Diagnostic imaging. --- Emergencies. --- Medical emergencies. --- Accidents --- Radiology. --- Technology, Radiologic --- Radiology --- diagnosis.

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The last two decades have been marked by intense and accelerated economic, political, and cultural processes that have affected urban spaces. These changes have occurred in different parts of cities (traditional centers, edges, peripheries) and at different levels of the urban system (large and medium-sized cities and in their respective areas of influence). Possibly the clearest expression of the spatial effects on cities can be perceived in their morphological transformations, their territorial dimensions, or in their social problems. Until 2008, urban–territorial processes were a reflection of the logic and inconsistencies of an expansive economic context and of a structural context that favored the development of cities through concurrent processes and actors. As a result, the built land and amount of urbanized and built surfaces increased, together with processes of the expansion and modernization of cities. Since 2008, the expansive economic cycle has ended, and there have been diverse negative consequences. Notably, the construction sector has come to an abrupt halt. Access to credit has also been reduced, and unemployment has increased. The economic recession has caused sociodemographic and socioeconomic issues exemplified by housing vulnerability, with dispossession, evictions, a shortage of social housing, and energy poverty.

residential strategies --- Cabanyal --- urban sustainability --- foreign immigration --- eco-neighborhood --- neoliberal urban policy --- suburbanization --- urban growth --- housing vulnerability --- foreclosure --- spatial analysis --- housing market --- counter-urbanization --- urban sprawl --- Alicante --- educational level --- rurbanization --- post-crisis --- Suomi NPP VIIRS --- urban regeneration --- urban segregation --- Spanish city --- holiday home --- Barcelona --- vulnerable neighborhoods --- real estate bubble --- remote sensing --- night lights --- illegal urbanization --- urban inequality --- urbanization --- water --- sharing economies --- Uber --- land squandering --- socio-environmental vulnerability --- Madrid --- financialization --- housing bubble --- Extremadura --- urban conflicts --- urbanism --- social housing --- residential segregation --- Airbnb --- dispersed urbanism --- urban geography --- social-vulnerability --- medium-sized city --- school choice --- eviction --- urban vulnerability --- social crisis --- sustainable urban neighborhoods --- periurbanization --- periphery --- land uses --- qualitative methodology --- expansive city planning --- residential mobility --- consumption --- Spain --- urbanization process --- economic crisis --- medium-size cities --- neighbourhood effect --- social inequalities --- urban expansion --- Barcelona Metropolitan Region --- seasonality --- Valencia