Natural Disasters

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...

This book discusses the environmental hazards in the Gulf countries (GCC). The publication of this book is of great importance to all those interes...

Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Detection Algorithms (SARADA) for Oil Spills conveys the pivotal tool required to fully comprehend the advanced ...

The Science of Responding to a Nuclear Reactor Accident summarizes the presentations and discussions of the May 2014 Gilbert W. Beebe Symposium tit...

No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financia...

There are many connections between human communities and their surrounding environments that influence community resilience and health in the Gulf ...

With the increasing frequency of natural and human-induced disasters and the increasing magnitude of their consequences, a clear need exists for go...

Along the Gulf Coast, history is often referenced as pre-Katrina or post-Katrina. However, the natural disaster that appalled the world in 2005 has...

This book presents the fullest account yet written of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Rooted in a wealth of oral his...

The book aims to clarify from a demographic and geographical perspective how population trends of the Tohoku Region were changed as a result of the...

Disaster losses in the context of natural hazards continue to rise, despite a growing understanding of disaster risks and measures to reduce them. ...

This book explores spatiotemporal analysis and impact assessment of agricultural drought in China and investigates the correlation coefficient betw...

This book is a machine-generated literature overview that explores the theoretical and empirical aspects of economics of natural disasters such as ...

This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Che...

This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International C...

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

Japan is a place where powerful earthquakes have occurred more frequently and have caused more harm in the modern era than they have in all but a h...