Natural Disasters

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...

*WINNER of the BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION****AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER**** A Pulitzer Prize Finalist * A National Book Award Finalist ...

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...