Natural Disasters category: 785 books
Tohoku Recovery
Challenges, Potentials and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused extensive damage in various sectors. Through the recovery process, special lessons are being learned and applied in the affected region. This book attempts to draw lessons from different issues and sectors...
Institutional Partnerships in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems
A Compilation of Seven National Good Practices and Guiding Principles
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This book documents seven examples of Early Warning Systems for hydrometeorological and other hazards that have proven effective in reducing losses due to these hazards. The cases studied encompass a variety of climatic regimes and stages of economic development, raging across the industrialized countries...
by Dr. R. K. Dave
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This book “Disaster Management in India: Challenges and Strategies” - provides a practical and realistic understanding of the evolving status of disaster management in India. The book discusses techno-legal systems for disaster management and their real-life effectiveness based upon the author’s...
Nuclear Meltdown, USA
Could Japan's Power Plant Disaster Happen Here?
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
Sitting near four significant fault lines on the coastline of California, Diablo Canyon is just one of 65 nuclear power plants in the United States. After the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, Americans are now asking, "Could it happen here?"
This e-book original, based on an...
by Elizabeth H. Clare
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900 recreates the era of Gay Nineties Austin, then--as now--a city on the rise and on the make. In 1891, at the behest of ambitious city fathers, the little city of just 15,000 people gambled its future on a project of breathtaking size--a massive hydroelectric dam across...
How to Prepare for and Survive Tornadoes and Other Extreme Weather Conditions
How to Survive the Extreme Weather Conditions in 2019
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
**UPDATED FOR 2019**: Do you live in an area that is prone to tornadoes? If you do, are you prepared for them? Unfortunately, many individuals are not. Many experts claim that tornadoes are increasing in numbers, as well as intensity. That is why you should always be prepared for a tornado, just in...
by Sujit Mandal, Ramkrishna Maiti
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
In the present authors attempted to have a clear insight into the interworking of geotectonic, geomorphic, hydrologic and anthropogenic factors leading to landslide in the Shiv khola Watershed, the most worst affected region of Darjiling Himalaya. This book includes the parameters responsible for...
Calamity
The Heppner Flood of 1903
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
June 14, 1903, was a typical, hot Sunday in Heppner, a small farm town in northeastern Oregon. People went to church, ate dinner, and relaxed with family and friends. But late that afternoon, calamity struck when a violent thunderstorm brought heavy rain and hail to the mountains and bare hills south...
by Rovshan Abbasov
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This book illustrates the main factors of vulnerability and gives a clear picture about the possible interventions to reduce disaster risks both in schools and communities in Azerbaijan. A new methodology for child centered vulnerability assessments both on school and community levels has been developed....
The Torrent
A True Story of Heroism and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Six years on from Queensland's tragic 'inland tsunami', this new edition of The Torrent reconnects with the survivors at the heart of the catastrophe. On January 10, 2011, after weeks of heavy rain and as floodwaters began to overwhelm much of southeast Queensland, a 'wall of water' hit Toowoomba...
Post-Tsunami Hazard
Reconstruction and Restoration
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
This monograph focuses on a variety of topics related to reconstruction and restoration in post-tsunami conditions. Aspects such as coastal engineering, early warning systems and technological approaches, urban planning and settlements relocation, socio-economic redevelopment and policy, coastal ecosystems...
Carbonate Depositional Systems: Assessing Dimensions and Controlling Parameters
The Bahamas, Belize and the Persian/Arabian Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Carbonate sediments are of increasing relevance for archives of past environmental conditions and for economical reasons in areas of geothermal energy and hydrocarbon reservoirs. Complex interaction of physical and chemical parameters with biological parameters determines the architecture and composition...
InSAR Observations of Ground Deformation
Application to the Cascades Volcanic Arc
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This doctoral thesis applies measurements of ground deformation from satellite radar using their potential to play a key role in understanding volcanic and magmatic processes throughout the eruption cycle. However, making these measurements is often problematic, and the processes driving ground deformation...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This book draws examples from food security issues in Bangladesh. The book is structured around those issues and underlying causes of food security, the implications from different sectors, policy analysis, and the role and actions of various stakeholders from different sectors to ensure food security.
Bangladesh...