Natural Disasters

What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to...

What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes? What is daily life like under a humanitarian regime? Is aid a gift or is it a form...

What happens to people after an earthquake destroys their homes? What is daily life like under a humanitarian regime? Is aid a gift or is it a form...

Natural disasters appear to be on the rise worldwide and their increasing frequency and far-reaching devastation demand the attention of society. B...

The author examines natural disasters around the Pacific Rim throughout history together with scientific data context to produce enlightening—and h...

This book examines the evolution of federal disaster relief policy, assesses problems with current policy, and provides an understanding of the iss...

In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the...

This book provides a detailed introduction to natural disasters and the ways in which they have had and continue to have, profound effects on human...

This book addresses two common problems encountered by emergency services personnel: the design and implementation of evacuation warning systems to...

On Thursday, November 6, the Detroit News forecasted “moderate to brisk” winds for the Great Lakes. On Friday, the Port Huron Times-Herald predicte...

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series. Hurricane research implicates something more than science....

From the Asian tsunami of 2004 to hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, our century has been fraught with catastrophic natur...

From the Asian tsunami of 2004 to hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Tohoku earthquake of 2011, our century has been fraught with catastrophic natur...

Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were onc...

The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once huma...

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every dis...

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every dis...

After the eruption, Krakatau provided a unique opportunity to study the colonization of a sterile area by plants and animals across a sea barrier a...

For almost a decade, economists Kevin M. Simmons and Daniel Sutter have been studying the economic impacts and social consequences of the approxima...

Fire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems. But, as necessary as fire is to maintaining healthy ecosys...

This book follows environmental changes—including those caused by human actions, as well as those resulting from natural circumstances—and provides...

The death and devastation wrought by the tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf states, the earthquake in Pakistan, the mudslides in ...

Both law and weather affect us every day of our modern lives, yet most people do not know how the weather has affected developments in the law, nor...

In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the first casualties of global climate...

Hurricanes menace North America from June through to November every year, each as powerful as 10,000 nuclear bombs. These megastorms will likely be...

When the forces that give our planet life exceed our ability towithstand them, they become disasters. Together they have shaped ourcities and archi...

This reference resource describes both the scientific background and the economic and social issues that resulted from environmental disasters resu...

Over the course of the past century, there has been a sustained reflective engagement about environmental risks, disasters, and human vulnerability...

Over the course of the past century, there has been a sustained reflective engagement about environmental risks, disasters, and human vulnerability...

The 1984 explosion of the Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India was undisputedly one of the world's worst industrial disasters. Some have a...

Winner of the Bancroft PrizeLouisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Book of the Year“The main thrust of Horowitz...

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

On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire laid waste to almost the entire town of Paradise, California, a community of 27,000 people. At least 8...

Storms, floods, fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other disasters seem not only more frequent but also closer to home. As the world face...

The Pantanal is the largest wetland in the world, covering more than 365,000 kilometres of the central floodplains of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay....

A thorough overview of the phenomenon of flooding, including frequency, damage, and information about organizations that help flood victims. What c...

From killer fires to ecosystem rehabilitation, an exhaustive survey exploring the ecological, social, and economic consequences of managing fires i...