Natural Disasters - Volume II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Disasters - Volume II write by Vladimir M. Kotlyakov. This book was released on 2010-08-19. Natural Disasters - Volume II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Natural Disasters theme in two volumes is a component of Encyclopedia of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Natural hazards arise unexpectedly, without any discernible regularity, and leave an indelible trace in nature, sometimes for many decades to come. At present they are appreciably complicated by anthropogenic influence, lending them an adverse and often catastrophic character. The susceptibility of a society to the impact of natural disasters is conditioned by the natural environment, and the vulnerability of the society to such phenomena is historically associated with the type of the nature management. Natural disasters can be of geological and hydrometeorological origin; the specific group of such phenomena is presented by natural disasters in mountains. This volume deals with the natural disaster and covers several topics, with a myriad of issues of great relevance to our world such as: Geological Catastrophes; Climate-Related Hazards; Mountain Disasters and Snow Avalanches, which are then expanded into multiple subtopics, each as a chapter. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.
Natural Disasters Set: Grades 1-2
Natural Disasters Set: Grades 1-2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Disasters Set: Grades 1-2 write by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2011-11. Natural Disasters Set: Grades 1-2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover the power of Mother Nature through rich content, including photographs and supporting graphics in this 5-title set. Some books also feature a lab activity. 24-32 pages per book. Titles in this set include Earthquakes!; Tornadoes and Hurricanes!; Fires; Volcanoes; and Hurricanes.
Unforgettable Natural Disasters
Unforgettable Natural Disasters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unforgettable Natural Disasters write by Tamara Hollingsworth. This book was released on 2013-03-03. Unforgettable Natural Disasters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the effects of the powers of nature on the world, including disasters from earthquakes to droughts.
The Cure for Catastrophe
The Cure for Catastrophe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cure for Catastrophe write by Robert Muir-Wood. This book was released on 2016-09-06. The Cure for Catastrophe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We can't stop natural disasters but we can stop them being disastrous. One of the world's foremost risk experts tells us how. Year after year, floods wreck people's homes and livelihoods, earthquakes tear communities apart, and tornadoes uproot whole towns. Natural disasters cause destruction and despair. But does it have to be this way? In The Cure for Catastrophe, global risk expert Robert Muir-Wood argues that our natural disasters are in fact human ones: We build in the wrong places and in the wrong way, putting brick buildings in earthquake country, timber ones in fire zones, and coastal cities in the paths of hurricanes. We then blindly trust our flood walls and disaster preparations, and when they fail, catastrophes become even more deadly. No society is immune to the twin dangers of complacency and heedless development. Recognizing how disasters are manufactured gives us the power to act. From the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 to Hurricane Katrina, The Cure for Catastrophe recounts the ingenious ways in which people have fought back against disaster. Muir-Wood shows the power and promise of new predictive technologies, and envisions a future where information and action come together to end the pain and destruction wrought by natural catastrophes. The decisions we make now can save millions of lives in the future. Buzzing with political plots, newfound technologies, and stories of surprising resilience, The Cure for Catastrophe will revolutionize the way we conceive of catastrophes: though natural disasters are inevitable, the death and destruction are optional. As we brace ourselves for deadlier cataclysms, the cure for catastrophe is in our hands.
Floods
Floods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Floods write by Jennifer Howse. This book was released on 2018. Floods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A discussion of floods, describing their characteristics, patterns of occurrence, and impacts. Features descriptions of significant flash floods and flooding events from history"--
