Natural Disasters

This volume discusses important issues associated with agricultural disaster risk, resilient agriculture, and livelihood. It highlights the role of...

This book describes the source parameters, faulting mechanism, slip distribution, rupture pattern, and aftershock behaviour of the Nepal Earthquake...

This book focuses on landslide hazard mapping, identification of site-specific drivers of landslide occurrence, and assessment of landslide suscept...

This book explores the surface and subsurface hydrological conditions and their management in a tropical or sub-tropical setting applying geospatia...

Nature's Fury: Navigating Natural Hazards in Mountainous Topographies shall be a comprehensive guide to the unique challenges and hazards associate...

Illuminating the impacts of environmental disasters and climate crises globally, this book examines the experiences of teens grappling with eco-dis...

Climate change is fundamentally changing ecosystems and their fire conditions, and the 2023 fire season highlighted the urgency of developing and i...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A Pulitzer Prize FinalistA National Book Award FinalistA Writers' Trust Award Fi...

Le catastrofi sono classificate in base agli elementi della tradizione filosofica ellenica e la loro ragione fisica è alla base dell'intera trattaz...

Nonostante i rapidi progressi della scienza che studia I terremoti, per i sismologi non è ancora possibile prevederli. Prevedere l'imprevedibile è ...

'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less'Masterly... Her essays have a clarity and prescience that imply ...

The book elaborates on microplastics as a global concern, prompting the need for comprehensive understanding and effective management. It thoroughl...

Saudi Arabia hosts at least six major volcanic fields located on the western margin of the Arabian Peninsula. The volcanic surface covered is compa...

This book provides a new and different perspective on human geography as an umbrella understanding of the social science of disaster management, bu...

When Cyclone Tracy flattened Darwin on Christmas Day 1974, it was the worst natural disaster Australians had ever experienced. Stationed in the cit...

As human society continues to develop, we have increased the risk of large-scale disasters. From health care to infrastructure to national security...

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

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

The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is housed within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and offers insurance policies that are ...

This book comprises the main results of the Scenario (Support on Common European Strategy for sustainable natural and induced technological hazards...

In September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan, killing more than 120,000 people and leaving two million homeless. Using a ...

Empire and Catastrophe examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France and explores...