Disasters category: 785 books
Disaster and Development
Examining Global Issues and Cases
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
This book offers a systematic, empirical examination of the concepts of disasters and sustainable economic development applied to many cases around the world. It presents comprehensive coverage of the complex and dynamic relationship between disaster and development, making a vital contribution to...
Environmental Geography of South Asia
Contributions Toward a Future Earth Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
This volume synthesizes critical environmental challenges of dynamic earth and human environment systems in South Asia emphasizing geographical dimensions. It deals with spaceborne monitoring, climate, ecohydrology, forests and biodiversity, land-use and land-cover change (LUCC), natural hazards,...
Tales from an Uncertain World
What Other Assorted Disasters Can Teach Us About Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
So far, humanity hasn’t done very well in addressing the ongoing climate catastrophe. Veteran science educator L. S. Gardiner believes we can learn to do better by understanding how we’ve dealt with other types of environmental risks in the past and why we are dragging our feet in addressing this...
by Rajib Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Disaster management has historically focused on reactive approaches, but a shift to proactive approaches is crucial for addressing concerns raised by the changing environment. A prime reason for the absence of proactive approaches in disaster/hazard management is the uncertainty or ambiguity present...
Taking Charge in Troubled Times
Proceedings of the 5th Annual Rocky Mountain Disaster Mental Health Conference
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Recent years have seen an extraordinary number of major disasters, critical incidents and other events that have had major impacts on our world. The 2004 tsunami, hurricanes Rita and Katrina, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan affect millions of lives daily. Potential events such as Avian Flu pandemic,...
Disaster!
A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
A comprehensive catalog of the most devastating and deadly events—natural or man-made—in human history.
If you follow the news it can seem like injury, sickness, and death are now constant, inescapable occurrences that threaten us every second of every day. But such catastrophic events—as...
Disaster Planning for Libraries
Process and Guidelines
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Libraries are constantly at risk. Every day, many libraries and their collections are damaged by fire, flooding, high winds, power outages, and criminal behaviour. Every library needs a plan to protect its staff, sites and collections, including yours. Disaster Planning for Libraries provides a practical...
by Tamara Leigh Hollingsworth
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 12, 2018
The world around us is more powerful than we know. Discover how earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and more have affected people and places around the world. Through Spanish-translated informational text, vivid images, and stunning facts and charts, readers will learn about disasters...
by Diana Noonan
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
Explore estimation theory and geophysical predictions by learning about seismologists, volcanologists, and meteorologists! This exciting title showcases the importance of predicting and preparing for disasters in order to save lives. Volcanologists test gases on a volcano to predict eruptions! Meteorologists...
by Noonan Diana
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Explore estimation and geophysical predictions by learning about seismologists, volcanologists, and meteorologists in this digital resource! This exciting Spanish-translated nonfiction e-book showcases the importance of predicting and preparing for disasters in order to save lives. Volcanologists...
by Edith Kunhardt
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
A Step 4 HISTORY reader. "The drama of natural disasters provides prime material to entice young independent readers. In this volume, the account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius describes village life 2,000 years ago, the eruption itself and its aftermath, and the excitement when the buried...
Survival Prepping
A Guide to Hunkering Down, Bugging Out, and Getting Out of Dodge
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Food, Water, First Aid, and Self-Defense Tips for Surviving Natural Disasters, Extreme Weather, Pandemics, Biological Threats, Terrorist Attacks, and Riots
It could be a fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, or hailstorm. Financial system collapse or bioterrorism. Governmental shutdown or societal...
The White Cascade
The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
The never-before-told story of one of the worst rail disasters in U.S. history in which two trains full of people, trapped high in the Cascade Mountains, are hit by a devastating avalanche
In February 1910, a monstrous blizzard centered on Washington State hit the Northwest, breaking records....
Breach of Faith
Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2006
Hurricane Katrina shredded one of the great cities of the South, and as levees failed and the federal relief effort proved lethally incompetent, a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe. As an editor of New Orleans’ daily newspaper, the Pulitzer Prize—winning Times-Picayune, Jed Horne...