Natural disasters

This book documents the state of the art in the use of remote sensing to address time-sensitive information requirements.

This SpringerBrief provides a general overview of the role of satellite applications for disaster mitigation, warning, planning, recovery and response.

Development in Unity: A Compendium of Works of Daasebre Prof.

The amazing true story of the deadliest tornado in American history, as told by a survivor.

As climate change continues to wreak havoc on the environment, devastating wildfires, both natural and manmade, are increasing.

This book provides a novel integrated solution for sedimentation problems in major dams in the Damodar River Basin.

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.

Wildland fires are occurring more frequently and affecting more of Earth's surface than ever before.

Emergency services personnel conduct their work in situations that are inherently dangerous.

Mountain Ash draws together exciting new findings on the effects of fire and on post-fire ecological dynamics following the 2009 wildfires in the Mountain Ash forests of the Central Highlands of Victoria.

Global Application of Prescribed Fire provides a first-hand perspective of the various methods and ways people around the world view and use prescribed fire.

Wildland fires have an irreplaceable role in sustaining many of our forests, shrublands and grasslands.

Australian Alps is a fascinating guide to Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks.

Australian Alps is a fascinating guide to Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks.

What are the 10 key issues that must be addressed urgently to improve Australia's environment?

Booderee National Park at Jervis Bay, 200km south of Sydney, attracts over 450,000 visitors each year.

Booderee National Park at Jervis Bay, 200km south of Sydney, attracts over 450,000 visitors each year.

Whether you have a garden suffering from lack of attention, damaged from weather events or suffering pest attacks, Australian Garden Rescue will guide you through practical solutions, helpful tips and preventative tactics to minimise future harm.

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 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.

The book aims to enhance understanding of landslides by focusing on detection, prediction, and monitoring.

The Great Hurricane of 1780, also known as Hurricane San Calixto II, is one of the most powerful and deadliest North Atlantic hurricanes on record.

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Even though frequent disaster losses occur in rural and agricultural areas, a substantial number of the prevailing disaster research has focused on urban areas, often failing to notice rural populations, communities, and rural development as a whole.

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.

This book provides a new data augmentation method based on the local stochastic distribution patterns in natural time series data of global and regional seismicity rates and their correlated seismicity rates.

'The future of all life on this earth depends on our willingness to take action now' David AttenboroughThe official companion to the ground-breaking Netflix original series.

A prescient and chilling climate change thriller set on the harsh landscape of Antarctica from one of the best science fiction writers of the present dayThe great geoengineering projects have failed.

Discover ancient civilizations that have disappeared beneath the ocean's surface and explore how the science of submergence adds to our knowledge of human history.

On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated.

On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated.

The end of life, the universe and humanity as we know it in a handy A to Z format.

North Carolina's Hurricane History charts the more than fifty great storms that have battered the Tar Heel State from the colonial era through Irene in 2011 and Superstorm Sandy in 2012, two of the costliest hurricanes on record.

"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).

Since the first edition of The Human Side of Disaster was published in 2009, new catastrophes have plagued the globe, including earthquakes in Haiti and New Zealand, tornadoes in Alabama and Missouri, floods in numerous locations, Hurricane Sandy, and the infamous BP oil spill.

Providing thorough descriptions of almost 200 species, this guide presents thousands of facts and figures that will help you identify, understand, and appreciate these important and remarkable animals.

Drawing on expertise from communication scholars who examine resilience within and across individual, relational, group/team, organizational, inter-organizational, and community levels, this handbook provides a wide-ranging resource for theory building, empirical investigations, and practical applications.

Current studies of recent crustal movement are presented using space and terrestrial geodetic methods.

The research reported in this volume was designed to provide estimates of the extent of damages and injuries from certain natu- ral hazards inflicted on households in the United States.

The Worst World Disasters of All Time is an overview of the most terrible disaster events in recorded history.

This book focuses on cloud-based platforms, advanced programming, machine learning models and programming approaches to assess water and other natural resources, flood impact, land use land cover (LULC), global forest change, global forest canopy height and pantropical nation-level carbon stock, among other areas.

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

This book is a comprehensive and in-depth research work that delves into the critical area of disaster prevention and mitigation strategies for infrastructure.

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.

Royalties from the sale of this book will go to charities working towards the reconstruction of north-eastern Japan.

The aim of this publication is the understanding of large floods and their impact on the Earth's surface.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary.

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).

What is the relationship between education and natural disasters?