Natural Disasters category: 785 books
Disasters and Public Health
Planning and Response
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Disasters and Public Health: Planning and Response, Second Edition, examines the critical intersection between emergency management and public health. It provides a succinct overview of the actions that may be taken before, during, and after a major public health emergency or disaster to reduce morbidity...
Community-Based Landslide Risk Reduction
Managing Disasters in Small Steps
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Many areas of the world are at risk from landslides and their consequences; rainfall-triggered landslides particularly affect developing countries in the tropics. Rapid urbanization and the associated growth of unauthorized and densely populated communities in hazardous locations, such as steep slopes,...
by Kevin Baker
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2014
The Worst World Disasters of All Time is an overview of the most terrible disaster events in recorded history.Caution: Because of the nature of this book, some readers may find some of the content and pictures disturbing.
by Elsevier Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in glacier surges and melting, ice shelf collapses, paleo-climate reconstruction, sea level rise, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness, and mitigation. It takes a geo-scientific...
Megadisasters
The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2009
Can we predict cataclysmic disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or stock market crashes? The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 claimed more than 200,000 lives. Hurricane Katrina killed over 1,800 people and devastated the city of New Orleans. The recent global financial crisis has cost corporations...
by John F. Shroder
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Earthquake Hazard, Risk, and Disasters presents the latest scientific developments and reviews of research addressing seismic hazard and seismic risk, including causality rates, impacts on society, preparedness, insurance and mitigation. The current controversies in seismic hazard assessment and earthquake...
by Richter Alan Cox
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2005
This BOOK reveals deep truths found in the Bible concerning the Last Days in mankinds future that few scholars, if any, have every pieced together. During the End Times, devastating events will occur to such extraordinary proportions that it will be the darkest times the earth and mankind will ever...
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...
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...
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...
by Alexander Stilwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Survival Techniques takes you through all the things you need to know about surviving natural disasters and staying alive in the wild, such as where to find water in the desert; how to build shelters from locally available materials that will keep out the wind and rain but will also be ventilated; and...
by Alexander Stilwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
What do you do if your aircraft ditches at sea? Or your building is on fire? Or you are the victim of a terrorist attack? Would you make the right decision to save yourself and the lives of others? Crisis Survival is a complete handbook to any crisis that may suddenly arise, from food or water shortages,...
by Paul Andrews
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
On the 11th March 2011, a massive earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean near to North-Eastern Japan. Soon afterwards, a devestating tsunami followed. This quick-read guide written by Paul Andrews gives the reader an overview an explanation of the events in easy-to-understand plain English. With sections...
Tsunami: Images of Resilience
Honoring the Tenth Anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
They say an image speaks a thousand words—these images speak millions. The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, which devastated the shores of 11 countries and took the lives of over a quarter of a million people, burned through the world’s consciousness for months afterwards. Just...