Religions, Natural Hazards, and Disasters : Special issue of Religion 40(2)JeanChristophe GaillardPauline Texier
Natural Hazards: Pearson New International Edition:Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes In Earth's Fury, Robert Kovach, a geophysicist from Stanford University, offers a helpful overview of past natural disasters and explores ways to assess the risks of future catastrophes. Becaus...
aWhile all regions are exposed to natural hazards, most disasters (such as droughts, earthquakes, extreme temperatures, floods, slides, storms, volcanoes and wildfires) tend to occur in developing regions. Underdeveloped countries and poor people concentrate the un-natural impact of natural hazards, ...
Perception of Natural Hazards and DisastersDefinitionDefinitionPerception of natural hazards and disasters involves intuitive judgments, beliefs, and attitudes adopted by individuals and groups of people about the likelihood of occurrence anddoi:10.1007/978-1-4020-4399-4_265Jarosaw Dziaek...
At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters Presently in its second edition, "At Risk" stands as a primary text in risk and vulnerability studies. The authors focus on the political and economic causes of disaster, arguing that vulnerability is at the foundation of risks and...
A major earthquake 2500 years ago caused one of the largest rivers on Earth to abruptly change its course. A recurrent event would pose the risk of such cascading hazards to the densely populated floodplains of present-day Bangladesh.
Levy JK, Gopalakrishnan C (2010) A policy-focused approach to natural hazards and disasters—towards disaster risk reduction (DRR): introduction to a special issue of the Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research. J Nat Resour Policy Res 2:317–323...
The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are written by selected specialists of each country. Human-induced disasters are also included, such ...
Natural hazards map based on data from FEMA shows annual expected losses from disasters including coastal flooding, earthquakes, and volcanic activity.
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