Natural Disasters

In 2017, four sequential disasters - hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and the California wildfires - created an unprecedented demand for federal dis...

The present book intends to outline different approaches regarding wildland fires, showing different perspectives and challenges present in the beg...

In 2011, despite continued developments in forecasting, tracking, and warning technology, the United States was hit by the deadliest tornado season...

WINNER: Educational Publishing Awards 2019Lyla has just started her second year of high school when a magnitude 6.3 earthquake shakes Christchurch ...

Who Dares Lives consists of three parts: Part I: The first part tells the story of an eleven-year-old boy as he begins to turn into a man. Lenord h...

An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through these 'natural d...

**SUNDAY TIMES AND THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**'An epoch-defining book' Matt Haig'If you read just one work of non-fiction this year, it should ...

This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning. Mar...

This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning. Mar...

Despite a century of study by ecologists, recovery following disturbances (succession) is not fully understood. This book provides the first global...

Using the analogy of a devastating series of earthquakes, Davutolu provides a new theoretical approach, conceptualization, and methodology for unde...

Hydrometeorological prediction involves the forecasting of the state and variation of hydrometeorological elements -- including precipitation, temp...

In recent years there has been growing recognition that disaster risk cannot be reduced by focusing solely on physical hazards without considering ...

How a plucky coterie of Louisiana shrimp-boat captains faced down the most destructive hurricane in U.S. historyonly to realize that the struggle t...

Humans persist in building centres of civilisation in places of past disasters as we believe that our technology will protect us next time. Yet we ...

Behavioural neurology is a subspecialty of neurology that investigates the neurological basis of human behaviour and cognitive function. Recently, ...

On 30 January 1607 a huge wave, over 7 meters high, swept up the River Severn, flooding the land on either side. The wall of water reached as far i...

Containing papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation this book covers a se...

One-third of the annual natural disasters and economic losses, and more than half of the associated victims are flood related. A burgeoning global ...

Few subjects have caught the attention of the entire world as much as those dealing with natural hazards. The first decade of this new millennium p...