Natural Disasters

This book summarizes contemporary research on land degradation, desertification, and how such issues relate to socioeconomic growth in developing c...

Geohazards and Disasters: Modelling Scenarios as a Challenge for the Future aims to depict an updated view of the most significant technical-scient...

Sustainable mining is need of hour to fulfil the increasing energy demand of the country and at the same time reduction in rate of carbon emission ...

This book tackles the question of how we can manage flood-related disaster risks, such as from typhoons, monsoons, and torrential rain, which have ...

The second volume of this comprehensive global perspective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on drought modeling, meteorological predicti...

The first volume of this comprehensive global perspective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on understanding drought, causes, and the ass...

The disastrous effects of floods in urban areas of various Indian cities have been increasing in severity and extent over the past decade. This boo...

This book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected people congregated temporarily often by chance, unlike cent...

This book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating ...

Educating for Sustainable Development (ESD) approaches are holistic and interdisciplinary, values-driven, participatory, multi-method, locally rele...

From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the thrilling and perfectly paced (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of Bou...

Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run wild with visions of ...

International Case Studies in the Management of Disasters presents a diverse range of case studies on how disasters, both natural and manmade, are ...

This book offers a critical exploration into Indigenous knowledge systems, particularly focusing on Indigenous land-based knowledge and practice in...

In recent decades, natural hazards have increasingly threatened lives, livelihoods, and economies, with annual losses totalling billions of dollars...

This open access book presents the state of the art in research on the characteristics of past earthquakes. It presents an overview of contemporary...

Global climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing humanity and it is affecting every country on every continent. Recent evi...

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Che...

As the concept of community resilience moves from the margins of practice and theoretical research to more mainstream scholarship, critical issues ...

The Angry Earth explores how various cultures in different historical moments have responded to calamity, offering insight into the complex relatio...

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to disc...

Many countries are increasingly threatened by major landslide disasters and fatalities due to extreme weather events which have major implications ...

This illustrated notebook highlights the need for a change of paradigm in current flood management practices, one that acknowledges the wide-rangin...

Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of researc...

Many coastal areas of the United States are at risk for tsunamis. After the catastrophic 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, legislation was passed t...

The authors of this volume discuss questions of disaster and justice from various interdisciplinary vantage points, including public policy, scienc...

This book explores the main concerns for grappling with increasing environmental disasters and examines how environmental disasters are understood ...