Disasters category: 785 books
by Tanveer Islam, Jeffrey Ryan, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Hazard Mitigation in Emergency Management introduces readers to mitigation, one of the four foundational phases of emergency management, and to the hazard mitigation planning process.
Authors Islam and Ryan review the hazard mitigation framework in both private sector and governmental agencies,...
Protecting Seniors Against Environmental Disasters
From Hazards and Vulnerability to Prevention and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history. They should number about 90 million by mid-century, more than doubling their current size. The massive increase in seniors and relative decline of those of working age in the US is mirrored...
Asia-Pacific Disaster Management
Comparative and Socio-legal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The book outlines the regulatory environment for disaster prevention and management in broad social, economic and political context. The first half of the book focuses mainly on Japan, especially the ‘3-11’ events: the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the Tohoku area on 11 March 2011 and...
Megadisasters
The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Can we predict cataclysmic disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or stock market crashes? The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 claimed more than 200,000 lives. Hurricane Katrina killed over 1,800 people and devastated the city of New Orleans. The recent global financial crisis has cost corporations...
Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam
Engineering and Planning Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam is the first book to focus specifically on natural hazards and climate change in Vietnam. The book examines threats such as tropical cyclones, sea-level rise, flooding, erosion, and salinity intrusion, and their respective effects on coastal structures...
by John F. Shroder
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Earthquake Hazard, Risk, and Disasters presents the latest scientific developments and reviews of research addressing seismic hazard and seismic risk, including causality rates, impacts on society, preparedness, insurance and mitigation. The current controversies in seismic hazard assessment and earthquake...
by Richter Alan Cox
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
This BOOK reveals deep truths found in the Bible concerning the Last Days in mankinds future that few scholars, if any, have every pieced together. During the End Times, devastating events will occur to such extraordinary proportions that it will be the darkest times the earth and mankind will ever...
Governing Affect
Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Roberto E. Barrios presents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters: southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; Chiapas, Mexico, after the Grijalva River landslide; and southern Illinois following the Mississippi River flood. Focusing...
Megafire
The Race to Extinguish a Deadly Epidemic of Flame
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
As forest fires continue to ravage communities, this bestselling author and firefighter explores what causes them, and captures the danger and heroism of those who fight them
In Megafire, a world-renowned journalist and forest fire expert travels to the most dangerous and remote wildernesses,...
Red River Rising
The Anatomy of a Flood and the Survival of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
On April 19, 1997, in one of the most dramatic floods in U.S. history, more than 50,000 people abandoned their homes and businesses in Grand Forks, North Dakota. A nation watched as the heart of downtown, engulfed by a river, burst into flames above the water line. Like Sebastian Junger's The Perfect...
This Borrowed Earth
Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters around the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Over the last century mankind has irrevocably damaged the environment through the unscrupulous greed of big business and our own willful ignorance. Here are the strikingly poignant accounts of disasters whose names live in infamy: Chernobyl, Bhopal, Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Minamata...
California's Deadliest Earthquakes
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
A detailed look at the state’s most terrifying and destructive disasters—photos included.
Home to hundreds of faults, California leads the nation in frequency of earthquakes every year. And despite enduring their share of the natural disasters, residents still speculate over the inevitable...
by National Geographic
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Severe weather events like hurricanes and tornadoes have increased fourfold in the last two decades, shaking the foundations of our existence. Weather-related tragedies have fascinated humans throughout time. For those who loved The Perfect Storm andKrakatoa, the millions who log onto daily weather...
Urban Emergency Management
Planning and Response for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Urban Emergency Management: Planning and Response for the 21st Century takes the concepts and practices of emergency management and places them in the context of the complex challenges faced by the contemporary city. Cities provide unique challenges to emergency managers. The concentrated population...