Search results for “[Subject: disaster]”

• Author(s): Ryoichi Fukagawa • Publisher: CRC Press • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • BISAC: Emergency ManagementThe 2011 Kii Peninsula disaster was postwar Japan's largest sediment and flood disaster. This book analyzes the disaster and the emer...

• Author(s): Bachev Hrabrin | Ito Fusao • Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - HorticultureOn March 11, 2011 the strongest ever recorded in Japan earthquake occur...

• Author(s): Michael McCluskey • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Communication StudiesNews Coverage of Global Disasters: Journalism's Power to Aid Healing and Recovery analyzes news from eight natural disa...

• Author(s): Ronni Alexander • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyThis edited book was produced through a transnational and transdisciplinary UNESCO Chair Project on Gender and Vulnerability in...

• Author(s): Bharat Dahiya • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentForeword President of the East-West Center Preface Bharat Dah...

• Author(s): Jacquleen Joseph • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefThis book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected people congregate...

• Author(s): J. Larsen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: International Relations - Arms ControlAn introduction to the range of potential disaster scenarios, covering the issues and organizational relationships...

• Author(s): Robert R. M. Verchick • Publisher: Harvard University Press • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyAs Hurricane Katrina vividly revealed, disaster policy in the United States is bro...

• Author(s): Graham Matthews • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralThis important book assesses the current state of disaster management in archives, libraries and mus...

• Author(s): Barbara Lucini • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public HealthFrom the Back CoverNatural disasters traumatize individuals, disrupt families, and destabilize communities.Surviving these harrowing events call...

• Author(s): Kenneth A. Loparo • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Economic ConditionsBased on conference proceedings presented at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in November 2012, Natural Disaster and Recon...

• Author(s): Juan M. Pulhin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia. Climate change and disaster ris...

• Author(s): Edmund M. Ricci | Jr. Pretto Ernesto A. | Knut Ole Sundnes • Publisher: Oxford Univ PR • Publisher Imprint: Oxford Univ PR • BISAC: Emergency MedicineA human disaster is defined as a hazardous event that overwhelms the capacity of th...

• Author(s): Ann-Margaret Esnard • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningDisplacement has traditionally been conceptualized as a phenomenon that results from conflict or other disrupt...

• Author(s): Xinzheng Lu • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Construction - Heating, Ventilation & Air ConditioningFrom the Back CoverThe first edition of this monograph, presenting accurate and efficient simulations ...

• Author(s): Sangam Shrestha • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier • BISAC: Human GeographyDisasters undermine societal well-being, causing loss of lives and damage to social and economic infrastructures. Disaster resilience is cent...

• Author(s): Thomas Princen • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press Ltd • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefHow extreme events, paradoxically, sow the seeds of positive response--and create opportunities for becoming adaptiv...

• Author(s): Denis Olschok • Publisher: Bod - Books on Demand • Publisher Imprint: Bod - Books on Demand • BISAC: EconometricsThis thesis focuses on disaster management. More specifically, the simultaneous planning of the distribution of disaster...

• Author(s): Spencer D. Segalla • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Empire and Catastrophe examines natural and anthropogen...

• Author(s): Cindy Ermus • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralThis Element explores the history of urban disasters around the globe over the last three-hundred years. It i...

• Author(s): Yoshito Tsuchiya +. • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - HydrologyUnder the auspices of the Tsunami Commission of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics and the International Coordi...

• Author(s): S. M. Yasir Arafat • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Industrial & Organizational PsychologyFrom the Back CoverPanic buying is a common response during crises; however, to date it has been a significantl...

• Author(s): Olesia Naumchyk • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: GeneralThroughout history, moments of unimaginable destruction have reshaped our world, testing the resilience of civilization...

• Author(s): Chandan Ghosh • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021). It e...

• Author(s): Logan Marshall • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Special Interest - AdventureSinking Of The Titanic And Great Sea Disasters is a book written by Logan Marshall that provides a detail...

• Author(s): Paul Margueritte • Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions • Publisher Imprint: British Library, Historical Print Editions • BISAC: GeneralTitle: The Disaster. [A tale.] ... Translated with an introductory memoir by F. ...

• Author(s): Susan Martineau • Publisher: B Small Publishing • Publisher Imprint: B Small Publishing • BISAC: Science & Nature - DisastersFrom natural mega-eruptions to terrifying man-made catastrophes, read what expert investigators say abou...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana • Publisher Imprint: Gale, Sabin Americana • BISAC: Americas (North Central South West Indies)Title: Shipwrecks and disasters at sea, or, Historical narratives of the most noted calamities...

• Author(s): Praveen Kumar Rai • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book explains to governments, decision makers and disaster professionals the potential uses of recent technologie...

• Author(s): Logan Marshall • Publisher: Anson Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Anson Street Press • BISAC: Maritime History & Piracy"The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters" recounts one of history's most infamous maritime traged...

• Author(s): Geoff Mackley • Publisher: Awa Press • Publisher Imprint: Awa Press • BISAC: Adventurers & ExplorersReflecting the dangerous pursuits of an adventure cameraman, this book offers a first-hand look at the extreme weather phenomena ...

• Author(s): Vít Vilímek • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis book is a part of ICL new book series "ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction" founded in 2019. Peer-rev...

• Author(s): Maggie Smith • Publisher: Dream Horse Press • Publisher Imprint: Dream Horse Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn Maggie Smith's Disasterology the poems lie down and make angels in the fallout as "a tide of fire drags everything away....

• Author(s): Rhiannon Firth • Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press (UK) • BISAC: Natural Disasters'Commendable - a book that prepares us to think about and react to system failures' - Peter Gelderloos Anarchists have been ...

• Author(s): Ilan Kelman • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: InternationalCatastrophe and Conflict: Disaster Diplomacy and Its Foreign Policy Implications examines how and why disaster-related activities (disaster response and ...

• Author(s): Xinzheng Lu • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Construction - Heating, Ventilation & Air ConditioningFrom the Back CoverBased on more than 12 years of systematic investigation on earthquake disaster simu...