Natural Disasters

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...

This book provides an overview of the extensive work that has been done on the design and implementation of the COVID-19 Philippines Local Governme...

Europe has a long history of managing coastal erosion through a variety of protection strategies, from the defences of the Venice lagoons to coasta...

Providing shelter after a disaster is recognised as one of the most complex areas of humanitarian relief and recovery. Some aid agencies have stopp...

During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law rangi...

Building upon presentations given during the conference on Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice, held at Uni...

A new Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and ...

Even though disaster losses frequently occur in rural and agricultural areas, a substantial number of the prevailing disaster research has focused ...

Tropical Cyclones and Associated Impacts: A Global Perspective provides a one-stop-shop for readers interested in the impacts of tropical cyclones,...

Now in paperback: a deeply researched and reported (San Francisco Chronicle) exploration of sea level rise in California that breathes exquisite de...

This open access book addresses the following topics for the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve (BR) in the Colombian Archipelago of San Andrés, Providenc...

This book presents a summary of the Workshop on Public Response to Alerts and Warnings on Mobile Devices: Current Knowledge and Research Gaps, held...