Natural disasters

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?

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

The book provides information on the observational aspects of the severe storms through satellite, radar, aircraft, and ground based network of stations and these issues are discussed in the first part of the book consisting of 8 chapters.

Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Second Edition, provides you with the latest scientific developments in sea level rise, permafrost degradation, rock/ice avalanches, glacier surges, glacial lake outburst floods, ice shelf collapses, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness and mitigation.

Development to a large extent determines the way in which hazards impact on people.

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

In the examination of gender as a driving force in disasters, too little attention has been paid to how women's or men's disaster experiences relate to the wider context of gender inequality, or how gender-just practice can help prevent disasters or address climate change at a structural level.

This book is one out six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics related to mining, aggregates, and karst.

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.

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.

This, conference proceeding, book contains invited articles and contributory papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, on June 24-25, 2021.

This history of an Indian earthquake aftermath analyses the role of civil society, the colonial state and international aid in disaster relief.

This book outlines methodologies to estimate the economic impacts of natural disasters based on business surveys conducted after large disasters in Japan.

When the Nuclear Safety Commission in Japan reviewed safety-design guidelines for nuclear plants in 1990, the regulatory agency explicitly ruled out the need to consider prolonged AC power loss.

This book addresses the operationalization of community resilience in the United Kingdom (UK) in connection with severe floods.

This book offers anthropological insights into disasters in Latin America.

Education is regarded as a cross-cutting issue for disaster risk reduction (DRR) through reviewing the Sendai Framework for DRR (SFDRR) 2015-2030.

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Addresses the state-citizen relationship in Pakistan in the wake of the natural calamities in 2010 and 2011.

The agriculture system is under pressure to increase production every year as global population expands and more people move from a diet mostly made up of grains, to one with more meat, dairy and processed foods.

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

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 begins by describing the Tuned Mass Dampers (TMD) systems to familiarize readers with the basic concepts, followed by a brief review of the state-of-the-art research findings culled from recent studies in the archival literature.

Big data, surveillance, crisis management.

This book examines the nature of flood in different landscapes and the various factors that contribute to flooding in different areas.

This book explores the benefits of using risk analysis techniques in the evaluation of flood protection structures, and examines the results of the environmental impact assessment for selected planned flood protection projects.

This volume explores the discourse of disaster and women in the existing social settings and state disaster-related affairs in coastal Bangladesh.

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.

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

This book provides a unique exploration of the inter-relationships between the science of plant environmental responses and the understanding and management of forest fires.

Wildfires have been growing in size, duration, and destructivity over the past 20 years.

A comprehensive overview of the concepts of vulnerability and resilience for natural hazards research for both physical and social scientists.

In a book as illuminating as it is captivating, Thomas E.

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience.

This book presents new research on the geomorphological impacts of extreme precipitation events.

This book deals with the theory and the applications of a new time domain, termed natural time domain, that has been forwarded by the authors almost a decade ago (P.

This book takes the topic of aviation crisis and emergency management and walks the reader through what aviation organisations must consider alongside legislation to respond fully to an aviation emergency or accident.

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 book is a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art studies of seafloor slope instability and their societal implications.

This book presents a comprehensive selection of applications employed in environmental remote sensing using optical and thermal infrared satellite-sensors aiming to map natural resources, crops, groundwater, surface water, aquatic ecosystem, land degradation, air quality, renewable energy, regional resources, and climate-related geophysical processes.

This book provides a detailed description of fluvial processes and their influence on urban sites.

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.

This book provides the first comprehensive compilation of cutting-edge research on Merapi volcano on the island of Java, Indonesia, one of the most iconic volcanoes in the world.

Taking natural disaster as the political and legal norm is uncommon.

A Subtle Balance critically reflects on major trends and enduring challenges over the last four decades of public policy and governance.

In 1816, the climate went berserk.

Light is the essential source of information about the surrounding world for most of us.

This book explores the feasibility of using El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-based forecasts and early warning systems to prevent losses from floods and droughts in Bangladesh.

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Chengdu, Sichuan, China from September 21st - 27th, 2023, with the theme of Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth.