Natural Disasters category: 785 books
by V.I. Osipov
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
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...
by Betty Ann Smiddy, Public Library of Cincinnati, Hamilton County
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Cincinnati�s Great Disasters explores catastrophes from 1905 to 1937, featuring floods, tornadoes, fires, explosions, winter storms, and crashes. Although tragic, disasters became popular postcard subjects in the early 1900s, with many of these photograph postcards being taken by professional photographers....
Improving Societal Resilience to Disasters
A Case Study of London’s Transportation System
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
This book documents the outcomes of a study designed to explore ways of increasing resilience in a complex city system against disasters by focusing on the transportation system in London. A survey was undertaken comprising interviews with upper level decision makers as well as questionnaires to personnel...
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...
Into the Fire
The Fight to Save Fort McMurray
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The dramatic story of one of the biggest natural disasters in Canadian history, the Fort McMurray wildfire of 2016, told by three of the firefighters who fought to save the city.
On May 1, 2016, a wildfire burning to the southwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta, led to the declaration of a local...
by Neil K. MacMillan
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
The city of Syracuse and Onondaga County have a long and storied history of natural and man-made calamity. Although often considered a moderate weather region, Mother Nature has not spared it from destruction. A tornado devastated picturesque Longbranch Park in 1912, and the rare Hurricane Hazel reached...
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...
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 Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2010
Australia is a land of extremes where searing heat and devastating floods can both take their toll. It is also a land of vast distances, leaving it vulnerable to calamaties at sea, by rail and in the air. AUSTRALIAS GREATEST DISASTERS charts the events that have caused not only tragic loss of human life,...
Weather Disasters
How to Prepare For and Survive Earthquakes, Tornadoes, Blizzards, and Other Catastrophes
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Floods. Blizzards. Landslides. Earthquakes. Tornadoes. Hurricanes. Severe weather happens every day across the globe. We see and hear of the devastating consequences whenever we tune into the evening news: property ravaged, communities destroyed, and lives lost. But although these events are unstoppable,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation covers systematic social network analysis and how people and institutions function in disasters, after disasters, and the ways they adapt to hazard settings. As hazards become disasters, the opportunities and constraints for maintaining...
Crisis Intervention Training for Disaster Workers
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
This book provides information about training for mental health professionals and first responders who work with victims of disaster related stress and trauma. It helps prepare them to relate with disaster victims and co-workers. Warning signs and symptoms are explored together with stages, strategies...
The Fukushima and Tohoku Disaster
A Review of the Five-Year Reconstruction Efforts
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The Fukushima and Tohoku Disaster: A Review of the Five-Year Reconstruction Efforts covers the outcome of the response, five years later, to the disasters associated with the Great East Japan earthquake on March 11, 2011. The 3.11 disaster, as it is referred to in Japan, was a complex accident, the...