Disasters category: 785 books
Deluge
Tropical Storm Irene, Vermont’s Flash Floods, and How One Small State Saved Itself
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
On August 28, 2011, after pounding the Caribbean and the U.S. Eastern seaboard for more than a week, Hurricane Irene finally made landfall in New Jersey. As the storm headed into New England, it was quickly downgraded to a tropical storm. And by Sunday afternoon, national news outlets were giving...
Adaptation to Climate Change
From Resilience to Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task – protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound...
The Wind Engineers
Building a Hurricane-Safe House
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
The University of Florida has an ambitious goal: to harness the power of its faculty, staff, students, and alumni to solve some of society's most pressing problems and to become a resource for the state of Florida, the nation, and the world.
Hurricanes and tornadoes--and the devastation they...
Modelling Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol
From Aerosol Microphysical Processes to Earth System Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
Anja Schmidt's thesis is a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol on the atmosphere, climate, air quality and human health. Using a state-of-the-art global microphysics model, the thesis describes and quantifies the impact of volcanic sulphur emissions...
Tree Rings and Natural Hazards
A State-of-Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant. I was working as a young geoscientist in the 1960s and early 1970s on a problem with slope movements and deformed vegetation. At the same...
Storm World
Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
An investigation into climate change and increasingly dangerous hurricanes from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Republican War on Science.
A leading science journalist delves into a red-hot debate in meteorology: whether the increasing ferocity of hurricanes is connected to global...
Hurricane Watch
Forecasting the Deadliest Storms on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2002
The ultimate guide to the ultimate storms, Hurricane Watch is a fascinating blend of science and history from one of the world's foremost meteorologists and an award-winning science journalist. This in-depth look at these awe-inspiring acts of nature covers everything from the earliest efforts by...
Tending Fire
Coping With America's Wildland Fires
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
The wildfires that spread across Southern California in the fall of 2003 were devastating in their scale-twenty-two deaths, thousands of homes destroyed and many more threatened, hundreds of thousands of acres burned. What had gone wrong? And why, after years of discussion of fire policy, are some...
by John Hairr
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2008
From the horrific Independence Hurricane of 1775, the most lethal storm to strike its coast, to the ruinous Hugo in September 1989, a path has been cut along the shores of the Tarheel State-a path not easily forgotten. Engagingly written and illustrated with historical photos that graphically depict the disastrous effects of these mighty storms, this book is a gripping read!
North Carolina's Hurricane History
Fourth Edition, Updated with a Decade of New Storms from Isabel to Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
North Carolina's Hurricane History charts the more than fifty great storms that have battered the Tar Heel State from the colonial era through Irene in 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, two of the costliest hurricanes on record. Drawing on news reports, National Weather Service records, and eyewitness...
by Brian A. Jackson, Kay Sullivan Faith, Henry H. Willis
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
The ability to measure emergency preparedness is critical for policy analysis in homeland security. Yet it remains difficult to know how prepared a response system is to deal with large-scale incidents, whether it be a natural disaster, terrorist attack, or industrial or transportation accident. This...
by Larry Morris
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2016
At 11:37 p.m. on August 17, 1959, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocked Montana's Yellowstone country. In an instant, an entire mountainside fractured and thundered down onto the sites of unsuspecting campers. The mammoth avalanche generated hurricane-force winds ahead of it that ripped clothing from backs...
The Wyoming Blizzard of 1949
Surviving the Storm
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Snow, wind and frigid temperatures devastated parts of Wyoming and neighboring states in 1949. For nearly two months, towns and ranches were marooned by enormous drifts, some reportedly eighty feet tall. The storm stranded hundreds of motorists on the highways and stalled nearly two dozen trains at...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, as well as their interface with Engineering Seismology, Geophysics and Seismology, have all made remarkable progress over the past 15 years, mainly due to the development of instrumented large scale experimental facilities, to the increase in...