Disasters category: 785 books

Education is regarded as a cross-cutting issue for disaster risk reduction (DRR) through reviewing the Sendai Framework for DRR (SFDRR) 2015–2030. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the education sector is one of the important efforts to enhance resilience in a community. DRR in the...

Communities are at the core of disaster risk reduction (DRR), and community based approaches are getting increasing focus in national DRR plans. In the case of past disasters, communities were always the first responders, and took leading roles in the post disaster recovery. The roles of communities...

Where will you be when the World ends? Take a whimsical walk with me down the Isles where they sell the very best doomsdays. Death by asteroid, volcano, alien attack or ice age, if you are standing on this planet when she blows, you will have a really bad day! If humans were as...

• There were 369,500 home fires in 2013; people who have suffered the loss of their homes and prized possessions to these fires will be able to relate to the author’s story. • Fires, floods, mudslides—all of these natural disasters affect hundreds of thousands of people every year. Middle-aged...

The Most Daring Escape ever!  Thanks to a generous payment from the MARVL Corporation, Noob finally had the money to take a long deserved vacation.  Little did Noob know that this vacation takes an unexpected turn for the worse… He has to escape a series of large-scale, deadly and...

Development in Unity: A Compendium of Works of Daasebre Prof. (Emeritus) Oti Boateng, Volume1 is a compilation of research works, published articles, speeches, seminar presentations, addresses, and radio broadcasts written by the author over the past 40 years. In these articles, the author,...

You fancy yourself an experienced, prepared, and responsible person when it comes to times of disaster. You've got emergency kits, you have drilled with your family, and you've got a food supply that will last months and will be the envy of all of your neighbors and enemies. Congratulations, you've...

This is a MUST READ for the Beginning Prepper! Start building your suvival stock without breaking the bank! What would happen to you and your family if suddenly one day you woke up and realized the electric grid had been knocked out in the night?  A significant blow to the power grid...

Attention to the problems posed by natural hazards in West and Central Africa was brought into sharp focus by the deaths of an estimated 1700 people in the valleys to the north of Lake Nyos in 1986. Prior to that the only, well documented, major natural catastrophe was the 1983 earthquake which killed...

This book is a pioneering regional work and provides a balanced approach of theory and practice in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Pakistan. The book analytically discusses the status of DRR and draws examples and lessons from national and community-level programs and projects and events in the country. The...

This is the first English language book to systematically introduce basic theories, methods and applications of disaster risk science from the angle of different subjects including disaster science, emergency technology and risk management. Viewed from basic theories, disaster risk science consists...

Disaster can strike at any time. Are you prepared? Sometimes, as with a hurricane, you may get some notice; other times, in the case of a fire or an earthquake, you’ll receive no warning at all. Most of the time, the disaster will leave your home and the surrounding area more or less intact....

This book analyses the state of the natural environment and the causes of its degradation using the biosphere approach. Further, those issues that must be resolved immediately on the global level are identified following the ideas defined by V.I. Vernadsky, and new principles of Man-Nature interaction...

Are you prepared in the event of a castastrophe? Will you be ready? This is common knowledge-that disaster is everywhere. It's in the streets, it's inside your campuses, and it can even be found inside your home. The question is not whether we are safe (because no one is really THAT secure anymore)...