Search results for “[Subject: disaster]”

• Author(s): J. Short • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyIn this volume, the USA is treated as a system that has been stress-tested by four unique events: the War on Terror, Hurri...

• Author(s): Robert Geipel • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThis series is dedicated to serving the growing community of scholars and prac- titioners concerned with the principles and application...

• Author(s): Anil Kumar Gupta | Akhilesh Gupta | Pritha Acharya • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - Ecology

• Author(s): Alessandra Cozzolino • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Nonprofit Organizations & Charities - GeneralFrom the Back CoverFollowing the recent dramatic rise in both natural and man-made disasters, humanita...

• Author(s): Fulvio Attina • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralDisaster policies present a new challenge to the practitioners and students of global politics; this book explains ...

• Author(s): Bharat Dahiya • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural Disasters

• Author(s): Riyanti Djalante • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)From the Back CoverThis book is a unique, transdisciplinary summary of the state of the art of di...

• Author(s): Martin F. Grace • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Insurance - Casualty1. THE PROBLEM OF CATASTROPHE RISK The risk of large losses from natural disasters in the U.S. has significantly increased in recent yea...

• Author(s): Graziano Salvalai • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sustainability & Green DesignFrom the Back CoverThe book provides an overview of the Slow Onset Disasters (SLOD) in the urban built environment discus...

• Author(s): Yifan Zeng • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Hydrology

• Author(s): Yibin Ao | Homa Bahmani • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Social WorkThis thought-provoking book unravels the intricate interplay between human behavior and disasters, weaving a rich narrative that transcen...

• Author(s): Takashi Abe • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: DemographyThe book aims to clarify from a demographic and geographical perspective how population trends of the Tohoku Region were changed as a result of the GE...

• Author(s): Paul R. Kleindorfer | Murat R. Sertel • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Finance - GeneralHuge economic losses from natural disasters, including nearly 100 000 fatalities world wide in 1999 alone, gave rise ...

• Author(s): Gopal Krishna Panda | Rajib Shaw | Subodh Chandra Pal • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersThe book illustrates a geospatial and geostatistical approach to data analysis, modeling, risk assess...

• Author(s): Yuchen Wang • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book focuses on proposing a tsunami early warning system using data assimilation of offshore data. First, Green's Funct...

• Author(s): S. Hamilton • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Industries - GeneralThis book is for anyone who wants to know what truly lies behind the scandals and disasters of global business which marred the fi...

• Author(s): Christopher W. Zobel • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Operations ResearchFrom the Back CoverThis volume provides a survey of current research problems and results in humanitarian operations research. Addit...

• Author(s): Marina Vujnovic • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherFrom the Back CoverThis book reveals the layered effects of the corporatization of higher education, situated within the ...

• Author(s): Serge Marguet • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Physics - NuclearFrom the Back CoverAre you afraid of a nuclear reactor accident? Should you be? This book will arm you with the scientific knowledge necessar...

• Author(s): M. K. Jha • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Civil - GeneralThe major challenges of the 21st century faced by human beings are how to achieve water security, food security, energy security and environmental ...

• Author(s): Naim Kapucu • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book offers a systematic, empirical examination of the concepts of disasters and sustainable economic development appli...

• Author(s): Ilias S. Kotsireas • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: CalculusFrom the Back CoverBased on the "Fourth International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters" (Kalamata, Greece, July 2019), this volume includes co...

• Author(s): Glenn McGregor • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersDistinctively, this book brings together an end-to-end understanding of heatwaves, that is, a consideration of their causes, consequences fo...

• Author(s): Jinling Hua • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverCOVID-19 has made differential impacts on countries and communities around the world. China, where COVID-19 started, has dev...

• Author(s): Jennifer Spinks • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - GeneralFrom the Back CoverIn late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to enc...

• Author(s): Mauricio Lynn • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Surgery - OrthopedicFrom the Back CoverThis book is designed to provide simplified operational blueprint for health care professionals and emergency managers ...

• Author(s): Sasha Rudenstine • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public HealthFrom the Back CoverThe World Trade Center attacks. A typhoid outbreak in Eastern Europe. Hurricane Katrina. While each is a unique disaster, d...

• Author(s): Hans Jochen Scholl • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationThis edited book entertains a multitude of perspectives on crisis information management systems (CIMS)-based disaster...

• Author(s): Scott McKinnon • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverDisasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both...

• Author(s): Dilanthi Amaratunga • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book presents a collection of papers under the theme of multi-hazard early warning and disaster risks. These we...

• Author(s): Joseph P. Stoltman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyReports of natural disasters fill the media with regularity. Places in the world are affected by natural disaster events every ...

• Author(s): Anthony J. Masys • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Engineering (General)From the Back CoverThis book aims to uncover the root causes of natural and man-made disasters by going beyond the typical reports and...

• Author(s): Mannava Vk Sivakumar • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyAgricultural production is highly dependent on weather, climate and water availability and is adversely a...

• Author(s): Anna Lukasiewicz • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Developing & Emerging CountriesFrom the Back CoverThis is an important, timely and provocative book! The authors explore the contested terrai...

• Author(s): Andreas Hoppe • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: HistoryFrom the Back CoverIn this book natural scientists, engineers, physicians as well as historians and social scientists define and describe geo-hazards a...

• Author(s): Janki Andharia • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book covers several dimensions of disaster studies as an emerging discipline. It is the inaugural book in the seri...