Natural Disasters

The 2012 National Research Council report Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative highlighted the challenges of increasing national resilience i...

Although ecosystems, humans, and fire have coexisted for millennia, changes in geology, ecology, hydrology, and climate as well as sociocultural, r...

Wildfires in America are becoming larger, more frequent, and more destructive, driven by climate change and existing land management practices. Man...

The academic biomedical research community is a hub of employment, economic productivity, and scientific progress. Academic research institutions a...

Crises and disasters that directly impact tourism can have extensive reputational implications for the organisations and destinations involved. It ...

Crises and disasters that directly impact tourism can have extensive reputational implications for the organisations and destinations involved. It ...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the relationship between tourism and earthquakes through all stages of a disaster. It discusses the me...

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the relationship between tourism and earthquakes through all stages of a disaster. It discusses the me...

A lethal mix of natural disaster, dangerously flawed construction, and reckless human actions devastated San Francisco in 1906 and New Orleans in 2...

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

Current knowledge and state-of-the-art developments in topics related to the seismic performance and risk assessment of different types of structur...

This highly topical book comes at a time when the two-way relationship between humankind and the environment is moving inexorably to the top of the...

Headwaters are fragile environments threatened by anthropogenic actions. The regeneration of headwaters calls for a practical approach through inte...

This book tells the story of the Earth itself, explaining the interplay of its gradual geologi- levolution, presented as a generally slow and safe ...

An island in the Caribbean. A centuries-old secret. A life adventure awaits. . . Discover the latest tale of friendship, courage and romance from t...

'Fun, action-packed and wildly original' CULTUREFLY 'Five Stars, Would Recommend' GRADY HENDRIX'Lord of the Flies crashes headfirst into The Hitch...

Discover the mind-boggling science of the coming apocalypse! 'Curiously pleasurable this will help you get your everyday problems into perspective...

Questo secondo volume prosegue la breve trattazione sulle catastrofi naturali. È la volta delle catastrofi dellacqua e dellaria, spesso sui giornal...

An award-winning text introducing the latest operational hydrometeorological forecasting and warning techniques for flood, drought, reservoir, hydr...

The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) was established as a means of raising worldwide public and political awareness of the vast, though fr...

Exploring some of the worlds more remote regions can be an exciting and rewarding experience, but should things go wrong, would you know what to do...

Rhetoric and Public Memory in the Science of Disaster grapples with the role of science in the public memory of natural disasters. Taking a psychoa...

Disasters often strike without warning and leave a trail of destruction in their wake. Yet armed with the right tools and information, survivors ca...

Tsunami Geosciences: The Geological Story of Tsunamis on Earth summarizes the most recent knowledge on this area of research. The book will provide...

This book presents a deep and encompassing survey of severe weather in all its forms. An Introduction to Severe Storms and Hazardous Weather is an ...