Natural Disasters

**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...