Natural disasters Books
Springer Disaster Law
Book SynopsisOverview of Disaster and humanitarian legislation.- Key issues and challenges of disaster law in Japan.- Overview of disaster legislation in USA.- Disaster law in China.- Disaster law in Indonesia.- Disaster legislation in the Philippines.- Disaster Law in Bangladesh.- Disaster Management law in India.- Disaster Management law in Nepal.- Disaster Management law in Pakistan.- Disaster Management law in Turkey.- Disaster management law in European Union.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Disaster Resilience and Human Settlements:
Book SynopsisThis book presents emerging perspectives on disaster resilience and human settlements in the larger context of the Anthropocene. The chapters explore urban and rural perspectives focusing on the current and emerging perspectives on disaster resilience through a holistic approach, involving scientists, humanists, planners, policymakers, and professionals in the global debate.Table of ContentsPart 1Introduction 1. Disaster Resilience and Human Settlements: Emerging Perspectives in the Anthropocene Part 2Flood Risk in Urban Areas: Disaster Resilience Assessment 2. Leaving nothing to chance: reducing flood risk by evaluating flood alert simulations in urban Contexts 3. Urban growth and increasing flood impact in Palma De Mallorca: a loss of resilience capacity? 4. Flood hazard analysis for disaster resilience assessment in urban areas: examples from the Adriatic coastal area of Central Italy 5. Addressing the Impacts of Inland Floods on Housing in Honiara, Solomon Islands Part 3 Perceptions and Representations of Disasters and Climate Change in the Anthropocene 6. Disaster perception and education among adolescents: a geographical perspective in Palermo, Sicily 7. Social media in risk perception and disaster management: a geographical perspective 8. Environmental Hazards as Weapons: Histories, Geographies, Representations 9. Living on Mount Etna in the Anthropocene between risk and beauty: a field survey 10. Climate change perception: a case study in the secondary school in Calabria, Italy 11. Informal Settlements in Ghana: Adaptation through Disaster Risk Communication Part 4Narrations of Disasters and Climate Change Resilience in Urban and Rural areas 12. Resilient landscapes: how to contribute to a climate rebalancing by restoring landscape 13. Disaster preparedness for enhancing the resilience to volcanic risk impact in the Etna region 14. Disaster Resilience and Human Settlements in the Abruzzi region (Central Italy) 15. Revitalizing the wounded territory: the didactic geo-hiking's potential 16. Sense of belonging and response to climate change: how the relation of local populations Part 5Pandemic and Disaster Risk Reduction: for an Emergency Pedagogy 17. For an emergency pedagogy: the Covid-19 witness as a “cure” for Disaster Risk Reduction. A case study in Southern Italy 18. From Disasters to the Pandemic: A Study on the EU Solidarity Fund 19. Resilience and disability in the pandemic emergency. The role of education Part 6Disaster Resilience and Governance 20. Disaster resilience and the role of disaster risk governance: Nepal and Thailand
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Springer Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools
Book SynopsisLandslide Susceptibility Assessment Based on Machine Learning Techniques.- Measuring landslide susceptibility in Jakholi region of Garhwal Himalaya applying novel ensembles of statistical and machine learning algorithms.- Landslide Susceptibility Mapping using GIS-based Frequency Ratio, Shannon Entropy, Information Value and Weight-of-Evidence approaches in part of Kullu district, Himachal Pradesh, India.- An advanced hybrid machine learning technique for assessing the susceptibility to landslides in the Meenachil river basin of Kerala, India.- Novel ensemble of M5P and Deep learning neural network for predicting landslide susceptibility: A cross-validation approach.- Artificial neural network ensemble with General linear model for modeling the Landslide Susceptibility in Mirik region of West Bengal, India.- Modeling gully erosion susceptibility using advanced machine learning method in Pathro River Basin, India.- Quantitative Assessment of Interferometric Synthetic Aperture 2 Radar(INSAR) for Landslide Monitoring and Mitigation.- Assessment of Landslide Vulnerability using Statistical and Machine Learning Methods in Bageshwar District of Uttarakhand, India.- Assessing the shifting of the River Ganga along Malda District of West Bengal, India.- An ensemble of J48 Decision Tree with AdaBoost, and Bagging for flood susceptibility mapping in the Sundarban of West Bengal, India.- Assessment of mouza level flood resilience in lower part of Mayurakshi River basin, Eastern India.- Spatial flashflood modeling in Beas River Basin of Himachal Pradesh, India using GIS-based machine learning algorithms.- Geospatial study of river shifting and erosion deposition phenomenon along a selected stretch of River Damodar, West Bengal, India.- An Evaluation of Hydrological Modeling Using CN Method in Ungauged Barsa River Basin of Pasakha, Bhutan.- The Adoption of Random Forest (RF) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) with Cat Swarm Optimization (CSO) to Predict the Soil Liquefaction.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Krakatoa The Day the World Exploded August 27
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Libsa, Editorial S.A. Tierra En Peligro
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Elsevier Science Forest Fires
Book SynopsisForesters, ecologists, land managers, geographers, and environmental scientists are interested in the behaviour and ecological effects of fires. This book focuses on the chemistry and physics of fire as it relates to the ways in which fire behaves and the impacts it has on ecosystem function.Trade Review"...a rich summary of our current knowledge of several important aspects of forest fire science, from fuel dynamics to coupled atmosphere-fire modelling. ...The book's strength is as a state-of-the-art review of research on pyrolysis, flames, lightening, fuel-moisture dynamics, smoke, combustion chemistry, and more. ...My fire science students and colleagues use Forest Fires as a reference." --Daniel Nepstad, Woods Hole Research Center, in NATURE (January 2002) "...a primary strength of this book is that you can find a larger number of state-of-the-art fire behavior and combustion topics covered in a single source. ...the book is an unmitigated success...a very strong book that will benefit most scientists interested in fire, including ecologists. ...Overall, I compliment the editors and authors for a job well done." --Marc D. Abrams, Pennsylvania State University, School of Forest Resources, in ECOLOGY (November 2001) "This book is authoritative, well written and abundantly referenced. ...a valuable resource on all the topics covered and is likely to remain so for many years. ...It is a book that researchers in fire ecology should be aware of and have access to." --John Ogden in ANNALS OF BOTANY (2001)Table of ContentsContributors Preface Acknowledgments 1 Strengthening Fire Ecology's Roots I. Introduction II. Processes III. Transfer Rates and Budgets IV. Examples of Traditional vs. Proposed Approach References 2 Flames I. Introduction II. Basic Aspects of Combustion in Forest Fires III. Temperature, Velocity, Species Concentration, and Flame Height IV Premixed and Diffusion Flames V. Extinction of Diffusion Flames VI. Diffusion Flames and Scaling Analysis VII. Spreading Flames VIII. Structure of Flame Base IX. Conclusions Notation References 3 Combustion Chemistry and Smoke I. Introduction II. Fuel Chemistry and Combustion III. Smoke Production IV. Minimizing Smoke Production V. Conclusions References 4 Water Relations of Forest Fuels I. Introduction II. Forest Fuels III. Fuel Moisture Relationships IV. Moisture Content Estimation Notation Additional Reading References 5 Wildland Fire Spread Models I. Introduction II. Head Fire Rate of Spread (Physical Principles and their Mathematical Embodiment) III. Head Fire Rate of Spread: Australia IV. Head Fire Rate of Spread: United States V. Head Fire Rate of Spread: Canada VI. Smoldering VII. Whole Fire Modeling—Fire Shape Notation References 6 Wind-Aided Fire Spread I. Introduction II. Laboratory-Scale Setup III. Fire Spread Model IV. Preliminary Testing of the Model V. Test Results for the Effect of Wind Speed and Fuel Loading on the Rate of Fire Spread VI. Conclusions Notation Recommended Reading References 7 Fire Plumes I. Introduction II. Modeling Fire Temperature Maxima III. Plumes above Fires in a Cross Wind Notation References 8 Coupling Atmospheric and Fire Models I. Introduction II. Vorticity Dynamics in a Fire III. Coupling between Atmosphere and Fire IV. The Elements of Fire Modeling V. Modeling the Atmosphere VI. The Coupled Fire—Atmosphere Modeling Approach VII. Idealized Studies of Wildfire Behavior VIII. Infrared Observations of Fires IX. Conclusions and Future Work Appendix I. Circulation and Vorticity Appendix II. Development of Vertical Rotation in a Frictionless Fluid Appendix III. Generation of Vertical Motion in Rotating Convective Cells Notation References 9 Surface Energy Budget and Fuel Moisture I. Introduction II. Evapotranspiration Processes and the Meteorological Controlling Factors III. Estimation of Potential Evapotranspiration Rates IV. Functional Dependence of PET and AET V. Characteristics of PET VI. Near-Surface Environment VII. Models of Land-Surface Interactions VIII. Remote Sensing of the Surface Energy Budget IX. Fire Weather Rating Systems Notation Suggested Reading List References 10 Climate, Weather, and Area Burned I. Introduction II. Weather and Area Burned—Synoptic Surface Features III. Weather and Area Burned—Upper Air Features IV. Teleconnections V. Future Warming and Area Burned VI. Summary References 11 Lightning and Forest Fires I. Introduction II. Lightning III. Previous Studies of Lightning-Initiated Fire IV. Interaction between Lightning and Fuels V. How Ignition Occurs VI. Ignition Experiments with Real Forest Fuels VII. Generating Models for Operational Use VIII. Smoke, Lightning, and Cloud Microphysics IX. Global Implications of Lightning Ignition Characteristics X. Conclusion References 12 Statistical Inference for Historical Fire Frequency Using the Spatial Mosaic I. Introduction II. Graphical Analysis III. Statistical Inference with Prespecified Change Points IV. The Efficiency of Sample vs. Map Data V. Determining Epochs of Constant Fire Frequency References 13 Duff Consumption I. Introduction II. Characteristics of Duff III. Empirical Studies of Duff Consumption IV. Flaming Combustion V. Smoldering Combustion and Pyrolysis VI. Models of Smoldering Combustion VII. Contribution of Smoldering Combustion Models to Understanding of Duff Consumption Notation References 14 Fire Effects on Trees I. Introduction II. Effects of Fire on the Tree Bole III. Effects of Fire on Canopy Components IV. Root Necrosis V. Tree Mortality VI. Discussion Notation Additional Readings References 15 Forest Fire Management I. Introduction II. The Relationship between Fire and Forest Land Management Objectives III. Assessing Fire Impacts IV. Forest Fire Management Organizations V. Level of Fire Protection Planning VI. Some Challenges Further Reading References Index
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Elsevier Science Hazard Mitigation in Emergency Management
Table of ContentsForeword PART 1: MITIGATION FRAMEWORK Chapter 1 – Introduction Chapter 2 – Mitigation Rules and Regulations Chapter 3 – The Role of Governments in Hazard MitigationChapter 4 – Mitigation in Private Sector PART 2: RISK ASSESSMENTS Chapter 5 – Hazard Identification - Natural Hazards Chapter 6 – Hazard Identification - Man-made HazardsChapter 7 – Vulnerability Assessment and Impact AnalysisChapter 8 – Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) PART 3: MITIGATION STRATEGIES, TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES Chapter 9 – Mitigation Strategies for Natural Hazards Chapter 10 – Mitigation Strategies for Man-made Hazards Chapter 11 – Mitigation Tools Chapter 12 – Mitigation Best Practices and Resources Epilogue – Tying it All Together
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Taylor & Francis Regaining Security A Guide to the Costs of Disposing of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium Routledge Revivals
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Taylor & Francis Urban Resilience to Droughts and Floods
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Resilience in the Pacific and the Caribbean The Local Construction of Disaster Risk Reduction Routledge Studies in Resilience
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Taylor & Francis Narratives of Faith from the Haiti Earthquake
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Taylor & Francis Collaborative Crisis Management InterOrganizational Approaches to Extreme Events
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Taylor & Francis Collaborative Crisis Management
Book SynopsisPublic organizations are increasingly expected to cope with crisis under the same resource constraints and mandates that make up their normal routines, reinforced only through collaboration. Collaborative Crisis Management introduces readers to how collaboration shapes societiesâ capacity to plan for, respond to, and recover from extreme and unscheduled events.Placing emphasis on five conceptual dimensions, this book teaches students how this panacea works out on the ground and in the boardrooms, and how insights on collaborative practices can shed light on the outcomes of complex inter-organizational challenges across cases derived from different problem areas, administrative cultures, and national systems. Written in a concise, accessible style by experienced teachers and scholars, it places modes of collaboration under an analytical microscope by assessing not only the collaborative tools available to actors but also how they are used, to what effect, and with whiTrade Review"Crisis collaboration across geographical and administrative borders is a must. It is also extremely hard. Under the guidance of Bynander and Nohrstedt, crisis experts pursue the Holy Grail of crisis collaboration in an exciting set of case studies. Extremely relevant for both academics and practitioners. A welcome addition to the crisis literature!" —Arjen Boin, Leiden University"Collaborative Crisis Management addresses collective action dilemma in response to major crises and disasters such as terrorism, wildfires, and earthquakes in different geographies, cultures, and political and administrative settings. This timely volume provides conceptually and analytically valuable perspectives from experts in the field in applying network governance in dealing with crises and disasters. The volume is an essential resource for both scholars and practitioners." —Naim Kapucu, Ph.D., Pegasus Professor & Director of the School of Public Administration, University of Central Florida“Emergency management is, above all, a social process. This authoritative book provides a valuable structure for analyzing the participation of people and organizations in crisis response. Its coverage of hazards and geographical areas is broad and eclectic. In responding to disasters and major incidents, collaboration is becoming more and more necessary. Many different agencies are likely to be involved, and hence the interorganizational perspective brought by the authors of this book is particularly welcome.” —David Alexander, Professor of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresAppendicesList of TablesList of Contributors1. Collaborative Crisis Management: Inter-Organizational Approaches to Extreme EventsFredrik Bynander and Daniel Nohrstedt2. Upscaling Collaborative Crisis Management: A Comparison of Wildfire Responder Networks in Canada and SwedenDaniel Nohrstedt, Julia Baird, Örjan Bodin, Ryan Plummer and Robert Summers3. Secure Summits: Collaborative Crisis Management Before and During Global Government ConventionsSanneke Kuipers and Marij Swinkels4. Managing Extraordinary Influx of Migrants: The 2015 Migration Crisis in Sweden Edward Deverell and Dan Hansén5. Overcoming Collective-Action Problems in Collaborative Crisis Management: Meta-Governance and Security Communications SystemsOscar L. Larsson6. Vertical Collaboration During the 2014 Swedish WildfireFredrik Bynander7. Collaborative Crisis Management in Turkey: Perceptions and Outcomes of Collaboration During Two EarthquakesHelena Hermansson8. Transregional Crisis Management in Africa Simon Hollis and Eva-Karin Olsson9. Addressing the Challenges of Transboundary Crises: The Dutch Local Response to the Global Surge in ISIS SupportersScott Douglas, Aline Bos and Mirko Noordegraaf10. Avoiding the Failures of Collaborative Crisis Management: Lessons from Research and Practice Charles F. Parker and Bengt Sundelius11. Under What Conditions Does an Extreme Event Deploy its Focal Power?: Toward Collaborative Governance in Swiss Flood Risk ManagementKarin Ingold and Alexandra Gavilano12. Lessons and Avenues for Future Research in Collaborative Crisis ManagementDaniel Nohrstedt And Fredrik BynanderIndex
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Taylor & Francis Climate Change Adaptation and Social Resilience in the Sundarbans
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Taylor & Francis Secular and Religious Dynamics in Humanitarian Response Routledge Research in Religion and Development
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