Environment and Ecology

This book is for a broad audience of practitioners, policymakers, scholars, and anyone interested in scenarios, simulations, and disaster planning....

The new revised fifth edition of Natural Hazards remains the go-to introductory-level survey intended for university and college courses that are c...

The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Disasters provides the first comprehensive review of the role played by international human rights law i...

From the towering pines of Shasta Trinity National Forest, to the chaparral scrub of San Diego's Mexican border, to Yosemite and the Western Sierra...

Alvarez drives home the point that for buildings and communities located in hurricane-prone regions, it is not a question of whether the area will ...

In the midst of the Great Depression, a furious storm struck the Florida Keys with devastating force. With winds estimated at over 225 miles per ho...

As individuals, groups, communities, and organizations routinely struggle to recover from disasters, they are beset by a duplication of efforts, po...

A PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION BESTSELLER A fascinating look (Esquire) at the thrilling world of smokejumpers, the airborne firefight...

If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most dest...

Natural disasters shape lives and economies through loss and devastation. In 2008, natural disasters killed more than 220,000 people worldwide and ...

The research this book is grounded on started with the ambitious intent to understand why FEWSs may fail. However, from the beginning, the objectiv...

A collection of articles that showcases the diversity of tsunami science. This is truly an interdisciplinary field that brings together seismologis...

Early morning on Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 6,200 homes and 8,...

From the moment radiation was discovered in the late nineteenth century, nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploratio...

An earthquake is a natural disaster that causes damage world-wide. Not only earthquakes of high magnitude, but also those of small magnitude that s...

For most of us, the impression of the word tsunami is a combination of multiple elements of action movie, thriller, drama and science fiction, wh...

The largest earthquake ever recorded in Haiti devastated parts of the country, including the capital, on January 12, 2010. The quake, centred about...

The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. I...

Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2014The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inlan...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the prevention, risk factors and management of natural disasters. Topics discuss...

Floods remain a significant hazard in the United States. Developing and investing in flood-prone areas represents a trade-off between the location'...

A forest fire is any uncontrolled, non-structure fire that occurs in the wilderness. Wildlife behaviour is often complex and variably dependent on ...

A tsunami is a series of water waves that is caused when a large volume of a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, vo...

The four major types of natural environmental hazards that can result in property damages or lost lives are (1) geophysical events, such as earthqu...

The nuclear industry is in a state of flux. Proclamations of a nuclear renaissance have given way to predictions of the industry''''s ultimate decl...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has adhered to its practice of using only unobligated low-enriched uranium (LEU) to meet national security needs for...

The massive release of radioactive material at the Chernobyl accident in 1986 led to widespread radiation exposure, in particular to people evacuat...

We are in the second century of Nuclear Age. It started in early 20th century with a brilliant development of human knowledge about the basis of th...

People today worry about threats from radiation exposure. Such concerns have been backed up in the past when A-bombs were used in Hiroshima and Nag...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of reports, correspondence and other publications on Ukraine. Some of the issues discussed include: U.S. P...

Safe and secure transport and storage of radioactive materials are essential for sustainable nuclear fuel cycle. The basic technologies are matured...

Uranium is a naturally occurring, ubiquitous heavy metal. In various chemical forms, natural uranium is found in all soils, rocks, seas and oceans....

Highly enriched uranium (HEU) is used for two major civilian purposes: as fuel for research reactors and as targets for medical isotope production....

Bangladesh is currently ranked as one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. In Threatening Dystopias, Kasia Paprocki investigates ...

What does Francis Rossi of Status Quo think about global warming? Does Ian Gillan of Deep Purple think were doing a good job of caring for the plan...

An essential introduction to the surprisingly long history of the electric car, from the early pioneers, through to the first commercially viable m...