Natural Disasters

Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes affect communities across the United States every year, causing fatalities, destroying property and crops, and d...

On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of ...

This book explores the relationship between tourism and high-magnitude storm events, including cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons and flooding, acro...

Disasters cause economic as well as human losses. Indeed, economic losses associated directly with disasters have continued at increasing proportio...

We live in a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering and loss of life due to natural hazard. The disaster paradigm has accelerated e...

Communities affected by natural disasters are often stigmatized as being passive with regard to disaster prevention, mitigation and adaptation, wai...

This book explores the relationship between tourism and high-magnitude storm events, including cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons and flooding, acro...

Succeed in your course with Hyndman/Hyndman's NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS, 6e. The authors provide easy-to-understand coverage of the geological ...

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Catastrophic Diplomacy offers a sweeping history of US foreign disaster assistance, highlighting its centrality to twentieth-century US foreign rel...

This open access book considers the water, energy, food (WEF) nexus in the Pacific region. The region comprises seventeen sovereign countries and s...

From a celebrated environmental journalist, the riveting exploration of sea level rise along the West Coast through human stories and ecological dr...

Building Back Better (BBB) has been a popular slogan in disaster recovery efforts around the world, including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the 20...

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Natural hazards, such as floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, typhoons, and wildfires, present significant challenges for managing risk and vulnerabili...

On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its ele...

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that th...

The book examines crisis management for operations located outside of a corporations normal confines, particularly in regions which might be overtl...

Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wildernesss epochal weather disaster   On July 4, 1999, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area...

Alex sighs at the dusty brown landscape. Drought is second nature to him - but how much longer can his family keep hoping for rain and better days?...

This book details the impact of flooding on our environment, and the ways in which communities, and those that work with them, can act to manage th...