Natural Disasters category: 785 books
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,...
by John F. Shroder
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Sea and Ocean Hazards, Risks and Disasters provides a scientific approach to those hazards and disasters related to the Earth's coasts and oceans. This is the first book to integrate scientific, social, and economic issues related to disasters such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and planning,...
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...
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,...
by Yong-kyun Kim, Hong-Gyoo Sohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This book scrutinizes the entire disaster trajectory history in the Republic of Korea: evolution, cross-over, and interconnection among natural, technological, and social disasters. Also examined is the government’s dynamic reaction for effective disaster responses in the wake of major disasters,...
by Paolo Paron
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major atmospheric disasters that have had and continue to have major implications for many of the world’s people, such as floods and droughts. . This volume takes a geoscientific approach to the topic, while also covering...
by Collins
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
How should you prepare for floods? What’s the best way to react during an earthquake? How should you signal for help, and what do you need in your supplies? This book gives you practical tips and advice to keep you prepared as far as possible to help protect yourself and your loved ones in the face...
The End
Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
What is the fate of the world as we know it?
Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, pandemics, cosmic radiation, gamma bursts from space, colliding comets, and asteroids—these things used to worry us from time to time, but now they have become the background noise of our culture. Are...
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...
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...
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...
In Time of Emergency
A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
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...
Acts of God
The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2006
As the waters of the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain began to pour into New Orleans, people began asking the big question--could any of this have been avoided? How much of the damage from Hurricane Katrina was bad luck, and how much was poor city planning? Steinberg's Acts of God is a provocative...
Extreme Weather, Health, and Communities
Interdisciplinary Engagement Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This volume presents a unique interdisciplinary approach, drawing on expertise in both the natural and social sciences. A primary goal is to present a scientific and socially integrated perspective on place-based community engagement, extreme weather, and health. Each year extreme weather is leading...