Natural Disasters category: 785 books
by John F. Shroder
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth’s biosphere. Many of these are caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid strikes that have important...
In Time Of Emergency
A Citizen's Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
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...
by Walter S. Griggs Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Richmond has had its share of man-made and natural calamities throughout its illustrious history. In 1811, fire destroyed the Richmond Theatre on Broad Street, tragically claiming seventy-two lives in one of the worst urban disasters in American history. As Union forces approached Richmond in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
The focus of this volume is comprised of the fundamentals, models, and information technologies (IT) methods and tools for disaster prediction and mitigation. A more detailed list of topics includes mathematical and computational modeling of processes leading to or producing disasters, modeling of...
Integrated Risk Governance
Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
"Integrated Risk Governance: Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters" is the first book in the IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series. It consists of two parts: Part I: Integrated Risk Governance Project Science Plan, which outlines the challenge, research programme,...
by John F. Shroder
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard exposure. Societies that strengthen...
Total Survival
How to Organize Your Life, Home, Vehicle, and Family for Natural Disasters, Civil Unrest, Financial Meltdowns, Medical Epidemics, and Political Upheaval
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Knowing that no survival book can cover every conceivable aspect of surviving in every conceivable situation, in Total Survival, veteran survivalist James C. Jones delivers tips that cover the most likely needs of readers and for which there is useful and practical instruction. His goal is to share...
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...
Plant Disturbance Ecology
The Process and the Response
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2010
The media coverage of natural disasters (hurricanes, fires, floods, ice storms, etc.) indicates the prevalence of natural disasters in most, if not all, ecosystems. In order for scientists to study, understand, and ultimately predict how these disturbances affect ecosystems, it is necessary for them...
Avoidable Deaths
A Systems Failure Approach to Disaster Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century: why deaths continue to occur in natural disasters despite the tremendous advancements in disaster management science and weather forecasting systems, increased sophistication of human-built environments and ongoing economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways that the disaster could have been prevented and how the risk of similar disasters can be minimized in the future.
Named a 2014...
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...