Natural disasters

This book is the result of comprehensive research work on the various aspects of the West Bengal coast including the world's largest riverine delta system, the Ganga-Brahmaputra Delta.

This book focuses on the 3.

Landslides: Monitoring, Susceptibility and Management opens with a presentation of the application of geographic information system -based statistical modeling in the delineation of landslide susceptible zones for Rani Khola River basin of Sikkim Himalayas, India, by combining various landslide conditioning factors, namely: geological, topographical and hydrological parameters.

"e;Pitilessly compelling, the sort of saga devoured in one horrified sitting"e; from our premier chronicler of wildfires and those who fight them (National Geographic Adventure).

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.

Climate change is increasingly of great concern to the world community.

This book presents strategies for managing disasters and reducing risks in Asian countries.

These proceedings contain a selection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Symposium on Geodesy for Earthquake and Natural Hazards (GENAH), Matsushima, Japan, 22-26 July, 2014.

This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies and coastal disaster prevention modeling for oceanic and coastal regions.

This book is the sixth volume of the proceedings of the 4th GeoShanghai International Conference that was held on May 27 - 30, 2018.

The first edition of this monograph, presenting accurate and efficient simulations of seismic damage to buildings and cities, has received significant attention from the research community.

The NATO Advanced Research Workshop, "e;Decision Support for Natural Disasters and Intentional Threats to Water Security"e; was the result of close collaboration between environmental, security, water resource, and health officials in the United States and Croatia.

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world.

On April 18, 1906, a 7.

Mathematically, natural disasters of all types are characterized by heavy tailed distributions.

This short manuscript is both a distillation of some of the latest work on disaster risk reduction and an interpretation of this distillation from the author's political economic perspective.

Disasters are complex and dynamic events that test emergency and crisis professionals and leaders - even the most ethical ones.

Resilient Thinking - Protecting Organisations in the 21st Century, Second editionSince the release of the first edition in 2012, a lot has changed in the world of risk and organisational resilience.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries, ISCRAM-med 2014, held in Toulouse, France, in October 2014.

This book is a detailed analysis of the food scarcity and epidemics among the womenfolk and other vulnerable sections of society in colonial Orissa.

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 doctoral thesis presents a novel approach to landslide risk assessment that explores the various dimensions of landslide risk in an integrated perspective.

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

The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) was established as a means of raising worldwide public and political awareness of the vast, though frequently under-used, potential the Earth Sciences possess for improving the quality of life of the peoples of the world and safeguarding Earth's rich and diverse environments.

Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia: Potentials and Challenges provides both a local and global perspective on how to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.

"e;What roles do literary and community texts and social media play in the memory, politics, and lived experience of those dispossessed?

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of diverse aspects of geohazards.

Public policy analysts and political pundits alike tend to describe the policymaking process as a reactive sequence in which government develops solutions for clearly evident and identifiable problems.

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 volume is aimed at providing a comprehensive overview of the state of art of research related to geo-related hazards in the Caucasus and other orogenic regions; it is also devoted to shedding light on a broad array of geological phenomena as well as discussing innovative tools and strategies for geohazard assessment.

In the midst of the Great Depression, a furious storm struck the Florida Keys with devastating force.

Increasingly, community leaders around the world face major natural and economic disasters that require them to find ways to rebuild both physical infrastructure and the local economy.

Disaster losses in the context of natural hazards continue to rise, despite a growing understanding of disaster risks and measures to reduce them.

This book explores the surface and subsurface hydrological conditions and their management in a tropical or sub-tropical setting applying geospatial and geostatistical derived predictive methods.

This book provides a unique blend of integrated disaster risk communication research conducted by authors with diverse backgrounds, including social psychology, sociology, civil engineering, informatics, and meteorology.

This book analyzes recent advances, trends, challenges and potentials of the role of media in disaster risk reduction.

This book attempts to bridge the gap between the climate change research and decision-making communities by exploring the impacts of climate change on groundwater from a more applied perspective.

In the context of Australia's developing carbon economy, fire management helps to abate emissions of greenhouse gases and is an important means of generating carbon credits.

This book focuses on water pollution, water management and water structures.

The weather on planet Earth is a vital and sometimes fatal force in human affairs.

Experiencing Climate Change in Bangladesh: Vulnerability and Adaptation in Coastal Regions provides a conceptual and empirical framework for understanding the vulnerability of coastal communities in Bangladesh to multiple stressors and presents the process by which rural households adapt their livelihoods.

In The Big Muddy, the first long-term environmental history of the Mississippi, Christopher Morris offers a brilliant tour across five centuries as he illuminates the interaction between people and the landscape, from early hunter-gatherer bands to present-day industrial and post-industrial society.

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

This book examines changing gender roles, relations and hierarchies in an ethnic minority community in Central Viet Nam.

This book investigates the widespread and persistent relationship between disasters and gender-based violence, drawing on new research with victim-survivors to show how the two forms of harm constitute 'layered disasters' in particular places, intensifying and reproducing one another.

An examination of how changing public information infrastructures shaped people''s experience of earthquakes in Northern California in 1868, 1906, and 1989.

This book presents an original interdisciplinary approach to the study of the so-called 'recovery phase' in disaster management, centred on the notion of repairing.