Natural disasters

This book demonstrates how a focus on children's rights can help practitioners to safeguard children during humanitarian crisis.

Introduction to Emergency Management, Second Edition is a practical reference for students and professionals covering disaster response planning and mitigation.

This book illustrates how mine seismology can be used to improve underground safety standards.

This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security perspectives.

This engaging volume explores the management of fire in one of the world’s most flammable landscapes: Australia’s tropical savannas, where on average 18% of the landscape is burned annually.

Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks.

Plant tissue culture is an essential component of Biotechnology which has gained unbeatable recognition in plant sciences for successful micropropagation and improvement of plant species, leading to the commercial application.

The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history.

The New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted in 2016 at the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III) in Quito, Ecuador, represents a globally shared understanding of the vital link between urbanization and a sustainable future.

This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Workshop on Geotechnical Natural Hazards held July 12-15, 2014, in Kitakyushu, Japan.

This book provides a comprehensive examination of the effects of a natural disaster on businesses and organisations, and on a range of stakeholders, including employees and consumers.

This book explains how gender, as a power relationship, influences climate change related strategies, and explores the additional pressures that climate change brings to uneven gender relations.

This book provides holistic case studies of technology development, examples of its complexities and an in-depth analysis from the perspective of information infrastructure.

This book provides a new framework for analysis of slope nonlinear stochastic seismic dynamic response based on the new theoretical tool of stochastic dynamics.

A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the CaribbeanThe diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule.

This book provides information essential for anyone interested in climate and environmental change of the Himalayan region, including land and resource managers, environmental planners, conservationists, environmentalists, geographers, climatologists, ecologists, and students.

A groundbreaking account of the cataclysmic hurricane of 1938 and its devastating impact on New England’s inland forests The hurricane that pummeled the northeastern United States on September 21, 1938, was New England’s most damaging weather event ever.

This book is a compilation of recent developments in the field of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaption (Eco-DRR/CCA) globally.

This book is a critical analysis of several of the most disaster-prone regions in Asia.

This book offers students, scholars, and practitioners a clear overview of the problems and the available solutions for the prevention and mitigation of Natech scenarios - technological accidents triggered by natural events, such as earthquakes, tsunamis and floods - addressing both the control and management of risk and the enhancement of system resilience.

Originally published in 1995, Monitoring Active Volcanoes is a comprehensive text which addresses the importance of volcano surveillance in the context of forecasting eruptive activity and mitigating its effects.

This book presents the results of seismic data analysis and interpretation based on nearly one million seismic events.

ADRIANO DE MAIO IReR President This publication originated from the workshop on "e;Control and risk prevention of dangerous materials and crisis management"e; that took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, in March 2009.

Called the greatest storms on the planet, hurricanes of the North Atlantic Ocean often cause tremendous social and economic upheaval in the United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Floodplain maps serve as the basis for determining whether homes or buildings require flood insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

Different people handle risk in different ways.

The Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine is a practical guide covering all aspects of the provision of care in humanitarian situations and complex emergencies.

Conventional wisdom says that the world is heading for a major water crisis.

This book focuses on land and disaster governance in Asian countries.

Disaster Preparedness and the United Nations: Advance Planning for Disaster Relief examines the roles and relationships of programs being implemented by the United Nations in the area of disaster relief and preparedness.

This book introduces a new way of analyzing, measuring and thinking about mega-risks, a "e;paradigm shift"e; that moves from single-solutions to multiple competitive solutions and strategies.

The special focus of these proceedings is on the areas of infrastructure engineering and sustainability management.

Terrorism, natural disasters, or hazardous materials threaten the viability for all types of businesses.

This book focuses on mathematical theory and numerical simulation related to various areas of continuum mechanics, such as fracture mechanics, (visco)elasticity, optimal shape design, modelling of earthquakes and Tsunami waves, material structure, interface dynamics and complex systems.

This book presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra Valley as a whole.

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 book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent.

Emergency Management Threats and Hazards: Water is a resource guidebook, which bridges the work of the emergency management practitioners and academic researchers, specifically for water-related incidents.

Through application of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, this monograph mainly focuses on large deformations and flow failure simulations of geomaterials and movement behavior, which are always involved in geo-disasters.

In April 2016, a series of earthquakes hit the Kumamoto area of Kyushu Island, southwest Japan.

This book presents selected papers from the 3rd Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction - Expanding the Platform for Bridging Science and Policy Making, which was held at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus from 19 to 21 March 2017.

Integrating Mental Health and Disability into Public Health Disaster Preparedness and Response brings together the fields of mental/behavioral health, law, human rights, and medicine as they relate to disaster planning and response for people with disabilities, mental and behavioral health conditions and chronic illness.

Written by an expert in the field, this book is perfect for those who would like to know what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.

This book explores spatiotemporal analysis and impact assessment of agricultural drought in China and investigates the correlation coefficient between meteorological drought and agricultural drought.

This edited book investigates the interrelations of disaster impacts, resilience and security in an urban context.

Integrated earthquake simulation (IES) is a new method for evaluating earthquake hazards and disasters induced in cities and urban areas.

This book provides hands-on conceptual, theoretical, and case study discussions on vulnerability and resilience in the global south.

Major disasters, both natural and man-made, have led to an increased need to improve the effectiveness of existing prevention, mitigation, and response capabilities.