Natural Disasters

In 1950, the biggest firestorm documented in North Americaone fire alone burned 3,500,000 acres of boreal forest in northern Alberta and British Co...

The 11 March 2011, earthquake and tsunami that occurred in Japan followed by the nuclear crisis are having a large negative impact on the economy o...

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

A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE On May 18, 1980, people all over the world watched with awe and horror as Mount St. Helens erupted. Fifty-seven...

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

Disaster can strike anyone at any time and unfortunately most people are not prepared for it. Disaster preparedness is essential, but most find ...

The book presents earthquake source, wave propagation, site amplification, and other seismological studies including earthquake simulation, applica...

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...

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

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

This book provides a snapshot of the manifestations of the climate emergency in the Philippines from a wide array of disciplines including physical...

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 ...

THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL ...

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

The objective of this publication is to provide insight into advancing remote sensing techniques dealing with floods, droughts, landslides, earthqu...

This book provides a summary of the state of the art of all facets of debris-flow science and practice and is designed to be a comprehensive techni...

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