Disasters category: 785 books
by V.F. Pisarenko, M.V. Rodkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The study of disaster statistics and disaster occurrence is a complicated interdisciplinary field involving the interplay of new theoretical findings from several scientific fields like mathematics, physics, and computer science. Statistical studies on the mode of occurrence of natural disasters largely...
Unbreakable
Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
'Economic losses from natural disasters totaled $92 billion in 2015.' Such statements, all too commonplace, assess the severity of disasters by no other measure than the damage inflicted on buildings, infrastructure, and agricultural production. But $1 in losses does not mean the same thing to a rich...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 1996
Natural and man-made disasters--earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, industrial crises, and many others--have claimed more than 3 million lives during the past 20 years, adversely affected the lives of at least 800 million people, and caused more than 50 billion dollars in property damages. A...
by John F. Shroder
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard exposure. Societies that strengthen...
Natural Disasters
Investigate Earth's Most Destructive Forces with 25 Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
When natural disasters happen they grab headlines around the world. People, creatures, and the environment are all impacted when nature gets out of control. Natural disasters can be upsetting to live through, but scientists today better understand their causes and how we can protect ourselves and...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
100 Catastrophic Disasters is an astounding compendium of natural and man-made disasters. The range of entries is extraordinary, from the bizarre to the horrific, and from the heartbreaking to the ridiculous. The book includes some of history's most incredible disasters and tells in vivid detail the...
by Nadia Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
The facts about natural disasters are so big and devastating they could make your head explode! You hear about huge costs (like the $360,000,000,000 in damage caused by the 2011 tsunami in Japan), huge speeds (the fastest-moving tsunami waves have been recorded at 500 miles per hour), and even huger...
by Susan W. Kieffer
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
"If you are an amateur weather geek, disaster wonk, or budding student of earth sciences, you will want to read this book." —Seattle Times
In 2011, there were fourteen natural calamities that each destroyed over a billion dollars’ worth of property in the United States alone....
Disaster Forensics
Understanding Root Cause and Complex Causality
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2016
This book aims to uncover the root causes of natural and man-made disasters by going beyond the typical reports and case studies conducted post-disaster. It opens the black box of disasters by presenting ‘forensic analysis approaches’ to disasters, thereby revealing the complex causality that...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways that the disaster could have been prevented and how the risk of similar disasters can be minimized in the future.
Named a 2014...
The Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands
A Study of Disasters and Response
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This first full-length book addresses disasters in the context of vulnerability of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that comprise 572 islands in the Bay of Bengal. It looks at the disasters that the islands have experienced in the last 200 years and analyzes major disasters since colonization by the...
by Diana Noonan
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Learn how estimation and approximation theory can be helpful when natural disasters strike! This informative title tells the stories of Hurricane Katrina, tornadoes and thunderstorms in Oklahoma, and a tsunami in Indonesia. All of these natural disasters were very dangerous and devastating, but estimations...
The Big Ones
How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (and What We Can Do About Them)
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
By the world-renowned seismologist, a riveting history of natural disasters, their impact on our culture, and new ways of thinking about the ones to come
Earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, hurricanes, volcanoes--they stem from the same forces that give our planet life. Earthquakes give us natural...
The Cure for Catastrophe
How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
We can't stop natural disasters but we can stop them being disastrous. One of the world's foremost risk experts tells us how.
Year after year, floods wreck people's homes and livelihoods, earthquakes tear communities apart, and tornadoes uproot whole towns. Natural disasters cause destruction...