Natural disasters

This book focuses on the links between deep earth (mantle) and shallow processes in areas of active tectonics in the Arabian Plate and Surrounding Areas.

This special volume contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Seventh International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-98), held in Chania, Crete Island, Greece, during May 1998.

Gathering the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Civil, Architecture and Disaster Prevention and Control (CADPC), held in Johor Baru, Malaysia, on April 25-27, 2025, jointly with the 3rd International Conference on Durability of Building and Infrastructures for Smart City (DuraBI), this book covers topics related to disaster prevention and control, such as disaster preparedness, assembled rapid disaster relief, geological hazards, earthquake-resistant buildings, mudslides, flood control and risk reduction, rocky slope, disaster prediction, prevention and control, application of Big Data in disaster rescue, and post-disaster reconstruction technology.

This book vividly shows the fostering environment, activity characteristics, distribution pattern, economic losses, casualties, disaster risks and management of earthquakes, mass movement, drought, floods, and marine disasters in the Silk Road region.

This book discusses disaster risks and hazards as well as measures to increase people's resilience.

This book deals with topics of current interest, such as climate change, floods, drought, and hydrological extremes.

This book offers anthropological insights into disasters in Latin America.

Climate shocks are shaping human geographies, threatening coastlines, flooding settlements and heating up cities.

This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries.

This book addresses disaster and disaster risk reduction (DRR) practices, constraints and capacity in the context of coastal Bangladesh.

This book discusses the need for entrepreneurship for sustainable development from the perspective of Asia, the fastest growing region in the world.

This book addresses the legal-geographical implications of the fact that landscapes are not static, but dynamic.

Geographies of Plague Pandemics synthesizes our current understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of plague, Yersinia pestis.

This book highlights the basic information about lightning.

This book delves into the everyday spaces, diverse mobilities and affective potency of weather.

This book presents selected papers from the 3rd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation, and Management Program of the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, in collaboration with academic institutions and organizations across the world.

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In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, ';an exquisitely written and dramatic booka literary page-turner' (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle, taking with it thirty-three lives.

As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters.

The 2001 National Research Council (NRC) report Basic Research Opportunities in Earth Science (BROES) described how basic research in the Earth sciences serves five national imperatives: (1) discovery, use, and conservation of natural resources; (2) characterization and mitigation of natural hazards; (3) geotechnical support of commercial and infrastructure development; (4) stewardship of the environment; and (5) terrestrial surveillance for global security and national defense.

This book analyzes the experiences of energy, sustainability and resilience issues from different Asian countries and puts forward a futuristic vision of an energy sector for sustained development.

This book addresses how water supply systems can be planned, designed, and managed for sustainability by presenting unique approaches and methodologies in rural drinking water supply schemes.

This book provides a timely review and summary of the recent advances in state-of-the-art earthquake geotechnics.

This Handbook provides a state-of-the-science review of research and practice in the human dimensions of hazards field.

This book presents the first compilation of scientific research on the island of Nisyros, involving various geoscientific disciplines.

This edited volume contains the best papers in the geo-engineering field accepted for presentation at the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Tunisia 2018.

China suffers frequently from many types of natural disasters, which have affected the lives of many millions of Chinese.

An essential guide to the foundations, research and practices of community disaster resilience Framing Community Disaster Resilience offers a guide to the theories, research and approaches for addressing the complexity of community resilience towards hazardous events or disasters.

This volume is devoted to investigation of all aspects of heat-mass transfer processes at different scales and from various origins, as well as the formation and evolution of geological structures.

Managing the Human Dimension of Disasters provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis on how individuals cope with tragedy and loss.

As natural disasters increase in number, strength, and frequency in the United States and around the world, local government managers must confront the reality that their community may be the next to experience a natural disaster.

Named after Lapindo Brantas, a gas exploration company that was drilling at the eruption site, the Lapindo mudflow initially burst in 2006 and continues to flow today, becoming the most expensive disaster in Indonesia's history.

This book provides an overview of the extensive work that has been done on the design and implementation of the COVID-19 Philippines Local Government Unit Monitoring Platform, more commonly known as Feasibility Analysis of Syndromic Surveillance Using Spatio-Temporal Epidemiological Modeler for Early Detection of Diseases (FASSSTER).

Current knowledge and state-of-the-art developments in topics related to the seismic performance and risk assessment of different types of structures and building stock are addressed in the book, with emphasis on probabilistic methods.

This book is a comprehensive resource on lightning and describes the unique roles which the state of Arizona has with regard to lightning.

This monograph is written based on the author's research on seismic assessment and retrofitting of corrosion-damaged reinforced concrete structures during the recent two decades.

This book discusses existing and future global problems of physical, chemical, biological and societal origins faced by increasingly populated cities and mega-cities, and options to mitigate or eliminate them.

Environmental Hazards in the British Isles (1981) offers a comprehensive account of the various hazards affecting Britain.

The much expanded sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides a fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century.

In all of the major challenges facing the world currently, whether it be climate change, terrorism and conflict, or urbanization and demographic change, no progress is possible without the alleviation of poverty.

This book examines reconstruction and resilience of historic cities and societies from multiple disciplinary and complementary perspectives and, by doing so, it helps researchers and practitioners alike, among them reconstruction managers, urban governance and professionals.

June 14, 1903, was a typical, hot Sunday in Heppner, a small farm town in northeastern Oregon.

Is resilience simply a fad, or is it a new way of thinking about human-environment relations, and the governance of these relations, that has real staying power?

Case Studies in Disaster Recovery, the initial release in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series, explores recovery from a number of perspectives: household, community and nation.

Disasters, Gender and Access to Healthcare: Women in Coastal Bangladesh emphasizes women's experiences in cyclone disasters being confined with gendered identity and responsibilities in developing socio-economic conditions with minimum healthcare facilities.

Globally, concerns for the environment and human well-being have increased as results of threats imposed by climate change and disasters, environmental degradation, pollution of natural resources, water scarcity and proliferation of slums.

The case of Chile is illustrative of a transition from command and control to market-based management policies, where economic incentives play a significant role in water management.

This volume provides preliminary recommendations on ways to educate and develop experience-based expertise among disaster response, security and other professionals from diverse backgrounds, whose current and future interests relate to crisis management.