Natural disasters

This is the first English-language atlas to systematically introduce the environment, hazard, vulnerability and risk mapping for 11 natural disasters, i.

This book serves as a guide to discovering the most interesting volcano sites in Italy.

This book provides a critical perspective on people's response to disasters in the Philippines.

Geographic information systems (GIS), the Global Positioning System (GPS), remote sensing, and other information technologies have all changed the nature of work in the mapping sciences and in the professions, industries, and institutions that depend on them for basic research and education.

Recurring extreme events of nature challenge disaster-prone settlements in complex ways.

The impacts of climate change are already being felt.

This book presents methods and results that cover and extend beyond the state-of-the-art in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering.

This book seeks to provide a comprehensive reconstruction of the 1667 Dalmatia earthquake phenomenon on the basis of eyewitness testimony.

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

In November 1950, the greatest storm of the twentieth century crippled the eastern United States, affecting more than 100 million people.

Of all the huge natural disasters that claimed the lives of thousands in Asia, the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 was the largest, estimated to have killed more than 230,000 people.

This book describes recent developments in soil liquefaction engineering and introduces more appropriate procedures than the current ones to evaluate triggering and consequences of soil liquefaction during earthquakes.

The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Response and Recovery covers the two post-disaster stages of the disaster cycle and presents am extensive and cutting-edge overview of their many considerations.

This book sheds light on the management challenges of crisis and emergency response in an arctic environment.

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

Find the answers to disaster and emergency management research questions with Disaster and Emergency Management Methods.

Essays examining representations of disaster in German and international contexts, exploring the nexus between disruption and recovery through narrative from the eighteenth century to the present.

This book is one out of six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to dams, tunnels, groundwater resources, and climate change.

In the field of risks and crises, both the access to relevant information and its circulation are seen as crucial factors.

In 1816, the climate went berserk.

Designed with researchers, students, and weather observers and enthusiasts in mind, Northeast Snowstorms takes the unique approach of utilizing conventional weather charts and detailed descriptions of individual storms to analyze storms in a multi-disciplinary way.

Through the lens of the Asian tsunami, this book problematizes concepts that are normally taken for granted in disaster discourse, including relief, recovery, reconstruction and rehabilitation.

Earth Observation for Flood Applications: Progress and Perspectives describes the latest scientific advances in Earth Observation.

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Earthquake and tsunami disasters have been increasing rapidly and globally in the last quarter-century.

The history and science behind efforts to predict major disasters, from tsunamis to stock market crashesCan we predict cataclysmic disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or stock market crashes?

This manuscript sets out a process for estimating fatalities in collapsed buildings due to ground shaking in an earthquake.

There are two questions often asked of risk communication: what has been learned from past work, and what is needed to push the field forward?

This book assesses the cities and communities at critical risk of devastating earthquakes, and asks what we can do to protect them.

Assessment of human casualties in earthquakes has become a topic of vital importance for national and urban authorities responsible for emergency provision, for the development of mitigation strategies and for the development of adequate insurance schemes.

Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam is the first book to focus specifically on natural hazards and climate change in Vietnam.

The management of data to understand complex and interwoven processes of sustainable development has been a great challenge for researchers, planners, and decision makers.

This pioneering book addresses the entirety of river flooding issues in the Upper Vistula Basin, where considerable flood generation potential exists.

This book comprehensively documents the various types of karst collapse and related conceptual site models, before discussing these collapses in terms of their impacts on engineering and the environment.

Vegetation fires are prevalent in several regions of the world, including South/ Southeast Asia (S/SEA).

Modern Technologies for Landslide Investigation and Prediction presents eleven contributed chapters from Chinese and Italian authors, as a follow-up of a bilateral workshop held in Shanghai on September 2013.

Examines how the media reported a bulge on the San Andreas Fault in 1976, describes the impact on public opinion, and suggests ways to encourage earthquake preparednessExamines how the media reported a bulge on the San Andreas Fault in 1976, describes the impact on public opinion, and suggests ways to encourage earthquake preparedness

Post-disaster and post-conflict tourism has recently emerged as a prominent topic of research and considers new risks that jeopardize tourism travel to destinations that have recently experienced climate-related disasters, civil conflicts, and other challenges.

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

The goal of this book is to explore disaster risk reduction (DRR), migration, climate change adaptation  (CCA) and sustainable development linkages from a number of different geographical, social and natural science angles.

Five years after the one of the worst nuclear accidents in history, Fukushima now only occasionally headlines national and international media.

This book presents natural hazards and risk--one of the fastest-growing and most relevant fields of pure and applied research within geosciences and environmental engineering-from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

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

This book presents relevant and contemporary research on the remote sensing of landscapes, agriculture & forestry, geomorphology, coasts & oceans, natural hazards and wild habitats.

This beautiful art book portrays the forces of nature through the main elements of Earth, Water, Air, Fire.

Extreme weather events, such as droughts, strong winds and storms, flash floods and extreme heat and cold, are among the most destructive yet fascinating aspects of climate variability.

Understand Business Continuity, using ISO22301Have you ever wondered whether your business continuity plan is any good?

Corona ist ein Weckruf an die Menschheit, sich an ihre natürlichen Grundlagen zu erinnern, den Hochmut, die Natur besiegen zu können, fahren zu lassen und sich stattdessen wieder mit ihr zu versöhnen.

This volume addresses the imperative need for recognizing, exploring, and developing the role of multilingual communication in crisis settings.