Disasters category: 785 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
This book provides a timely review and summary of the recent advances in state-of-the-art earthquake geotechnics. The earthquake disasters in Japan and New Zealand in 2011 prompted the urgent need for the state-of-the-art earthquake geotechnics to be put into practice for disaster mitigation. By reviewing...
by Yu Huang, Zili Dai, Weijie Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Through application of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, this monograph mainly focuses on large deformations and flow failure simulations of geomaterials and movement behavior, which are always involved in geo-disasters. The work covers the theoretical background, numerical techniques,...
Asia-Pacific Security Challenges
Managing Black Swans and Persistent Threats
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This edited book examines the contemporary regional security concerns in the Asia-Pacific recognizing the ‘Butterfly effect’, the concept that small causes can have large effects: ‘the flap of a butterfly’s wings can cause a typhoon halfway around the world’.
For many Asia-Pacific...
Earthquake and Atmospheric Hazards
Preparedness Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Sixth International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-96) held in Toronto, Canada during July, 1996. The Symposium was very timely, given the large number of natural disasters that...
In Time Of Emergency
A Citizen's Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters provides individuals and families with information on what can and should be done to enhance survival in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Chapters cover: general guidance, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, winter...
Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific
Policy and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable to a variety of natural and manmade hazards. This edited book productively brings together scholars and senior public officials having direct experience in dealing with or researching on recent major natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific. The chapters...
Hail of Fire
A Man and His Family Face Natural Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Every year people watch in shock as homes are destroyed and communities devastated by natural disasters. As the media arrives, the information that is reported is mainly statistical. The horror of living through and recovering from the experience is rarely told because almost no one has the emotional...
Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions
Improving Emergency Management and Climate Change Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of...
by John Hairr
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
During the past two centuries, the central region of the Tar Heel State was populated with numerous active coal mines, many of which dealt with catastrophes such as cave-ins or gas explosions. Over fifty-three miners lost their lives in an explosion at the Carolina Mine at Coal Glen in 1925, the largest...
Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk and Cultivating Resilience
Case Studies for a Multi-disciplinary Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
This edited volume emphasizes risk and crisis communication principles and practices within the up-to the minute context of new technologies, a new focus on resiliency, and global environmental change. It includes contributions from experts from around the globe whose research, advocacy, teaching,...
Community-Based Psychological First Aid
A Practical Guide to Helping Individuals and Communities during Difficult Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Community-Based Psychological First Aid: A Practical Guide to Helping Individuals and Communities during Difficult Times presents a practical method for helping those in need in difficult times. No advanced training in psychology is needed to use it.
Injuries from disasters, terrorist events,...
Natural Hazards
Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
The new revised fifth edition of Natural Hazards remains the go-to introductory-level survey intended for university and college courses that are concerned with earth processes that have direct, and often sudden and violent, impacts on human society. The text integrates principles of geology, hydrology,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
This book presents key lessons from community-based risk-reduction practices in Japan, a country that is often hit by disasters and that also has shown strong resilience in coping with those disasters. Japan has a strong governance system for disaster risk reduction. However, the Kobe earthquake of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and water-induced disasters. This fragile mountain region is under tremendous stress from climate change and land-use degradation that has accelerated flash floods, river-line floods, erosion, and wet mass movements during the...