Natural disasters

First published in 1990, this book describes the nature of the hurricane, one of the world's most dangerous weather hazards.

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

Many coastal areas of the United States are at risk for tsunamis.

There is by now a large literature on the economic aspects of flood control and flood relief policies.

In 1951 UNESCO launched an Arid Zone Programme with the object of promoting research into arid regions from every relevant scientific point of view.

This book discusses techniques for predicting, preventing and controlling the hydrogeological instability of slopes consisting of cohesive soils.

This book provides international perspective for those studying or working in the security domain, from enforcement to policy.

This book provides a complete study of the Central Andean volcanism and its most distinctive features, from the lower Paleozoic to the Cenozoic times in the framework of its processes, eruptive mechanisms and geodynamic conditions.

Guided by a belief that good crisis communication theory should inform and improve practice, this book makes a wide range of theories utilized in crisis communication accessible to researchers, students, and practitioners.

An effective response to bushfires relies on accurate predictions of fire behaviour, particularly the rate of spread, intensity and 'spotting'.

This book examines the causes, consequences and policy implications of flooding in the US, covering hazard mitigation, hydrology, geography and environmental planning.

During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts.

Die Autoren stellen eine in dieser Form noch nicht vorhandene Untersuchung von Hanginstabilitäten im System „Hart auf Weich“ vor, die weltweit ein erhebliches Gefahrenpotenzial sind.

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

In this book, we proposed velocity-free localization methods for acoustic and microseismic sources.

This book provides a snapshot of the manifestations of the climate emergency in the Philippines from a wide array of disciplines including physical sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, management, and law.

Risk communication is crucial to building community resilience and reducing risk from extreme events.

This book explains the tragic tale of the Satluj floodplain since its inception.

On Friday, January 28, 1977, it began to snow in Buffalo.

Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics provides the essential knowledge for the hazard evaluation of large outdoor fires, including wildland, WUI (wildland-urban interface), and urban fires.

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

The book provides an overview of the floods and major hydrological changes that occurred in the medieval Hungarian kingdom (covering the majority of the Carpathian Basin) between 1000 and 1500 AD.

This volume develops a research plan to study and monitor Mount Rainier, an active Cascade volcano located about 35 km southeast of the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area.

How is a changing climate affecting hurricanes, and how are these changes intersecting with our changing exposure and vulnerability in ways that affect tropical cyclone risk?

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

This contributed volume discusses essential topics and the fundamentals for Big Data Emergency Management and primarily focusses on the application of Big Data for Emergency Management.

Earthquakes, nuclear accidents, and floods were among the many unexpected tragedies that struck the Soviet Union over its history.

Tsunamis are primarily caused by earthquakes.

This volume provides in-depth coverage of the latest in remote sensing of hydrological extremes:  both floods and droughts.

As a specialist in disaster preparation, you have huge responsibilities: a failure to prepare for natural and human-induced disasters costs lives and money.

Based on the suggestions made by the speakers of Plenary Session IV "e;Ch- lenges to the management of water resources and to countering deserti cation in the Mediterranean region"e; during the 15th Economic and Environmental Forum, the OCEEA proposed to organize a workshop on "e;Water Scarcity, Land Degra- tion and Deserti cation in the Mediterranean region - Environment and Security Aspects"e;.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of geotechnical engineering, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 7th Italian National Congress of Geotechnical Researchers (CNRIG 2019), entitled "e;Geotechnical Research for the Protection and Development of the Territory"e; (Lecco, Italy, July 3-5, 2019).

The primary goals of this brief are to invoke alertness and solidarity among the public in earthquake prone areas of India, and to empower the community to prepare themselves to face and manage the aftermath of an earthquake.

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.

This book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 Km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf of Mexico 65.

The objective of this publication is to provide insight into advancing remote sensing techniques dealing with floods, droughts, landslides, earthquakes, permafrost-related hazards, glacial lake outburst floods, forest fires, droughts, tropical cyclones, climate resilience and COVID-19.

This book explains the tragic tale of the Satluj floodplain since its inception.

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 presents reviews, examples and case studies of innovative applications in solid and hazardous waste management.

The book fills a void by bringing together literature in an under-represented but disaster-prone region - Southeast Asia.

This book showcases the cross-disciplinary and "e;systemic"e; relationships among climate change, resilience, and cultural heritage.

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.

The book, after two introductory chapters on seismic design principles and structural seismic analysis methods, proceeds with the detailed description of seismic design methods for steel building structures.

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

The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean.

Floods can have a devastating impact on life, property and economic resources.

This book is a unique, transdisciplinary summary of the state of the art of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Indonesia.

Should people in the way lose out as new reservoirs, mines, plantations, or superhighways displace them from their homes and livelihoods?

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

This book explains how the U.