Natural Disasters

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 ...

In an era of escalating conflict-induced and climate-induced migration and cross-border interaction, transnational-competence (TC) preparation for ...

This book provides a new data augmentation method based on the local stochastic distribution patterns in natural time series data of global and reg...

Disasters raise serious challenges for contemporary legal orders: they demand significant management, but usually amidst massive disruption to the ...

First published in 1935, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake, giving a background to the earthquake zone...

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

This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weathe...

This book presents an in-depth ethnographic case study carried out in the years following the 2010 Haiti earthquake to present the role of faith be...

Natural disasters have long been seen as naturally generated events, but as scientific, technological, and social knowledge of disasters has become...

This book has the purpose of developing an understanding of the factors determining and influencing the shear behavior of soils, with emphasis on c...

This book constitutes a landmark attempt to address, comprehensively and in-depth, a policy-focused approach to the many timely and important issue...

This first full-length book addresses disasters in the context of vulnerability of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that comprise 572 islands in the...

The text offers a comprehensive and unique perspective on disaster risk associated with natural hazards. It covers a wide range of topics, reflecti...

On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousandsalmost all African American. ...

This book makes an important contribution to police scholarship by focusing on the critical need for law enforcement personnel to receive education...

This handbook builds a shared understanding of the troubling politics of philanthropy and the disturbing history and practices of humanitarianism. ...

This open access book shows how citizens' involvement in geohazard risks prevention can strengthen regional and national risk management systems, t...