Natural disasters Books

Book SynopsisThey huddle low, nostrils burning from the smoke. A wave of despair flows over Tye. Nothing will survive this firestorm. The bush and everything she loves will be lost. It's the summer holidays, and Tye is staying at her grandparents' lodge at Chancy's Point in Tasmania's beautiful Central Highlands. But her plans for fun with best friend Lily and working on her pencil pine conservation project are thwarted as fire threatens the community and the bush she loves - and when Tye discovers Bailey, a runaway boy hiding out, she is torn between secretly helping him and her loyalty to her grandparents.As the fire comes closer and evacuation warnings abound, Tye is caught up in the battle of her life. Will she and Bailey survive? What will happen to her beloved pencil pines and the wildlife at risk? Can she and her close-knit community make a difference in a world threatened by climate change?Trade Review'A thrilling story combining adventure with environmental warnings, Tyenna sets a high standard for the series.' -The West Australian

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Book SynopsisThere has been increased attention to the topics of disaster recovery and disaster resilience over the past several years, particularly as catastrophic events such as Hurricane Katrina and Superstorm Sandy have brought to light the increasing vulnerability of so many communities. This manuscript brings together existing research, along with policy analysis, in order to look at disaster recovery through the lens of justice. This includes understanding the mechanisms through which vulnerability is exacerbated, and the extent to which the regulations and agency cultures drive this outcome. While existing analyses have sought to understand the particular characteristics of both resilient and vulnerable communities, there have been few attempts to understand the systemic inequities and injustice that is built into United States disaster policies, programs, and legislation. This manuscript thus begins from the understanding that social and economic structures, including land use policies and historic practices such as redlining, have concentrated hazard risk into vulnerable zones whose inhabitants do not benefit from the very policies that create and increase their risk. Table of ContentsCONTENTS 1. Chapter 1 Introduction1.1 Applying a Justice Paradigm1.2 Conceptualizing Justice1.3 Disaster Vulnerability and Resilience1.4 Deserving Victims and Post-Disaster Fraud1.5 Survivor Agency1.6 Social Capital and Collective Efficacy1.7 Public Policy and Legislation1.8 Implementation Challenges1.9 Disaster Risk Reduction and Creation1.10 Disparate Outcomes1.11 Resilience for Whom?1.12 Defining Just Recovery 2. Chapter 2 Deserving Victims and Post-Disaster Fraud2.1 Deserving Victims2.2 Duplication of Benefits and Appeals2.3 Fraud, and the Corrosive Community2.4 Deserving Corporations2.5 Government Corruption2.6 Deserving Victims, Post-Disaster Fraud and Justice 3. Chapter 3 Survivor Agency3.1 Survivor Agency3.2 Collective Efficacy and Social Capital3.3 Reclaiming Agency3.4 Survivor Agency and Justice 4. Chapter 4 Public Policy and Legislation4.1 U.S. Disaster Policy4.2 Federalism4.3 Federal Disaster Programs4.4 Human Rights and Disaster Recovery4.5 Public Policy, Legislation and Justice 5. Chapter 5 Implementation Challenges5.1 Program Implementation5.2 Implementation of Existing Policies and Programs5.3 Using Current Policies and Regulations to Promote Just Outcomes5.4 Implementation Challenges and Justice 6. Chapter 6 Disaster Risk Reduction and Creation6.1 Disaster Risk Creation6.2 The Safety Premium6.3 Considering Justice in Resilience 7. Chapter 7 Disparate Outcomes7.1 Poverty and Economic Hardship7.2 Impacts to Public Housing7.3 Renters7.4 Displacement7.5 Just Recovery 8. Chapter 8 Conclusion: Resilience for Whom?8.1 Revisiting Just Recovery8.2 Person and Community Centered Recovery  

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a high-level summary of shallow magmatic systems (dykes, sills and laccoliths) to support geoscience master and PhD students, scientists and practicing professionals. The product of the LASI (Laccoliths and Sills conference) workshop, it comprises thematic sections written by one or more experts on the respective field. It features reviews concerning the physical properties of magma, geotectonic settings, and the structure of subvolcanic systems, as well as case studies on the best-known systems. The book provides readers a broad and comprehensive understanding of the subvolcanic perspective on pluton growth, which is relevant for mineralogical processes as well as the genesis of mineral deposits.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Physical properties of magma / Behaviour of magma at shallow levels.- Geotectonic settings: magma transport and typical shallow level systems.- Types of shallow level complexes.- Geometry and dimension.- Association with volcanic centres.- Volcanic-plutonic connection.- Structure of subvolcanic systems.- Internal structures.- Textures in the host.- Geophysics and remote sensing.- Modelling emplacement and cooling.- Analog experiments.- Numerical modelling.- Shallow-level magmatic systems and the environment.- Landslides and initiation of eruptions.- Climate change.- Societal aspects of shallow level igneous systems.- Raw materials.- Associated mineralizations.- Hydrogeology.- Shallow level bodies in hydrocarbon fields.- Case studies on shallow level magmatic complexes.- Halle Volcanic Complex.- British Cenozoic Igneous Province.- Elba Island.- Henry Mtns.- Karoo.- Iceland.- Bushveld.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled by this literature: the still existing gap between adaptation science and modelling and the possibility to effectively access and exploit the information produced by policy making at different levels, international, national and local. To do so, the book presents the proceedings of a high-level expert workshop on adaptation modelling, integrated with main results from the “Study on Adaptation Modelling” (SAM-PS) commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) and implemented by the CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, in collaboration with the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Deltares, and Paul Watkiss Associates (PWA).What is the latest development in adaptation modelling? Which tools and information are available for adaptation assessment? How much are they practically usable by the policy community? How their uptake by practitioners can be improved? What are the major research gaps in adaptation modelling that needs to be covered in the next future? How? This book addresses these questions presenting the results of a study on adaptation modelling commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) enriched by the outcomes of a high-level expert workshop on adaptation also part of the research. This book aspires to provide a useful support to academics, policy makers and practitioners in the field of adaptation to orient them in the expanding adaptation modelling assessment literature and suggest practical ways for its application. This book, mainly addressed to academics, policy makers and practitioners in the field of adaptation, aims to providing orientation in the large and expanding methodological/quantitative literature, presenting novelties, guiding in the practical application of adaptation assessments and suggesting lines for future research. This open access book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled by this literature: the still existing gap between adaptation science and modelling and the possibility to effectively access and exploit the information produced by policy making at different levels, international, national and local. To do so, the book presents the proceedings of a high-level expert workshop on adaptation modelling, integrated with main results from the “Study on Adaptation Modelling” (SAM-PS) commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) and implemented by the CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, in collaboration with the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Deltares, and Paul Watkiss Associates (PWA). Table of ContentsPreface Introduction from DG-CLIMA Introduction from the Editors Chapter 1 – Challenges for adaptation modelling Chapter 2 – Hazard, exposure and vulnerability modelling for adaptation Chapter 3 – Sectoral models for impact and adaptation assessment Chapter 4 – Adaptation modelling and policy action Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book is of paramount importance in the fields of engineering and applied sciences, given that through the values obtained by these procedures, many structures, like spillways of dams and highway culverts, are designed and constructed. The main aim of this book is to provide procedures for implementing many probability distribution functions, all of them based on using a standard and a common computational application known as Excel, which is available to any personal computer user. The computer procedures are given in enough detail, so readers can develop their own Excel worksheets. All the probability distribution functions in the book have schemes to estimate its parameters, quantiles, and confidence limits through the methods of moments and maximum likelihood.Table of ContentsIntroductionBasic Notions of Probability and Statistics for FloodNormal DistributionLog-Normal Distribution with 2 parametersLog-Normal Distribution with 3 parametersGamma DistributionPearson Type III DistributionLog-Pearson Type III DistributionExtreme Value type I DistributionGeneral Extreme Value DistributionLog-Normal Distribution with 3 parameters for the MinimaPearson Type III Distribution for the MinimaExtreme Value Type III Distribution for the Minima General Extreme Value Distribution for the Minima

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Modern Approaches to Understanding Past Earthquakes.- Measuring Ground Motions.- Historical Instrumental Seismology.- Eyewitness Macroseismology.- Shaking Constraints from Geology and the Natural Landscape.- Measuring Ground Deformation.- Remote Sensing of Surface Terrestrial Rupture Length and Slip.- Paleogeodesy of Offshore Earthquakes from Coral Microatolls. - Submarine Rupture extents and Sizes from Seafloor Coring.- Synthesizing Observations of Individual Earthquakes.- Surface Rupture Geometries, Slip Variability & Scaling Relations from Multiple Earthquakes.- Extrapolating Paleoseismic Parameters to an Entire Fault.- Distribution of Deformation through the Earthquake Cycle.- Synoptic Conclusion.- Employing and Combining Diverse Approaches to Understand Past Earthquake Ruptures in Relation to Modern Seismic Events.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1. What is a Disaster?.- Chapter 2. What Leads to Disaster Disasters?.- Chapter 3. How Can Disaster Deaths be Reduced?.- Chapter 4. Unavoidable Deaths in India.- Chapter 5. Governance for COVID-19 in India.- Chapter 6. Avoidable Disaster Deaths in India.- Chapter 7. Avoidable Disaster Deaths Approach Revisited.- Index.

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