Natural Disasters

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...

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of diverse aspects of geohazards. The growing vulnerability and exposure to failures in risk reduction ...

An overview of the importance of fire to ecosystems in the Southeast, with guidance on how to best conduct controlled burns in the region.A biodi...

This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian soc...

The book provides information on the observational aspects of the severe storms through satellite, radar, aircraft, and ground based network of sta...

This book provides holistic case studies of technology development, examples of its complexities and an in-depth analysis from the perspective of i...

Introduction to Emergency Management, Eighth Edition sets the standard for excellence in the field and has educated a generation of emergency manag...

This book presents an in-depth review of El Hierro Island, the youngest and most southwesterly volcano of the Canary Islands. In October 2011, a su...

This book covers the broad aspects of disaster legislation, governance, and their implementation. The book also includes in-depth reviews and new d...

The book is on latest investigations of natural hazards like earthquakes, landslides, and glacial hazards carried out in last few years. Review pap...

Forced population movements are a defining feature of almost any humanitarian crisis, shaping the design, targeting, and delivery of emergency resp...

Human settlements have grown near watercourses since ancient times. Water supply, irrigation, navigation, wastewater conveyance and city defense ar...

Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Disaster Memorials and Monuments: History, Context and Pract...

Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Disaster Memorials and Monuments: History, Context and Pract...

Distinctively, this book brings together an end-to-end understanding of heatwaves, that is, a consideration of their causes, consequences for human...

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

Are we winning or losing the battle for safe environments? In 1984, leading disaster risk management professionals and researchers met in Jamaica f...