Skip to main content
Elsevier
View Cart
openUserAccount

Books in Environmental disasters

BooksJournals
41-50 of 61 results in All results

Disaster Planning for Libraries

  • 1st Edition
  • December 9, 2014
  • Guy Robertson
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 7 3 0 - 9
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 3 9 6 - 1
Libraries are constantly at risk. Every day, many libraries and their collections are damaged by fire, flooding, high winds, power outages, and criminal behaviour. Every library needs a plan to protect its staff, sites and collections, including yours. Disaster Planning for Libraries provides a practical guide to developing a comprehensive plan for any library. Twelve chapters cover essential areas of plan development; these include an overview of the risks faced by libraries, disaster preparedness and responding to disasters, resuming operations after a disaster and assessing damage, declaring disaster and managing a crisis, cleaning up and management after a disaster and normalizing relations, staff training, testing disaster plans, and the in-house planning champion.

Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society

  • 1st Edition
  • November 21, 2014
  • Andrew E. Collins + 4 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 6 4 5 1 - 9
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 6 4 7 4 - 8
Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard exposure. Societies that strengthen themselves, or are strengthened, mitigate decline and resultant further exposure to what are largely human induced risks of environmental, social and economic degradation. This book outlines why it is important to explore in more depth the relationships between environmental hazards, risk and disasters in society. It presents challenges presented by mainstream and non-mainstream approaches to the human side of disaster studies. By hazard categories this book includes critical processes and outcomes that significantly disrupt human wellbeing over brief or long time-frames. Whilst hazards, risks and disasters impact society, individuals, groups, institutions and organisations offset the effects by becoming strong, healthy, resilient, caring and creative. Innovations can arise from social organisation in times of crisis. This volume includes much of use to practitioners and policy makers needing to address both prevention and response activities. Notably, as people better engage prevalent hazards and risks they exercise a process that has become known as disaster risk reduction (DRR). In a context of climatic risks this is also indicative of climate change adaptation (CCA). Ultimately it represents the quest for development of sustainable environmental and societal futures. Throughout the book cases studies are derived from the world of hazards risks and disasters in society.

Geoethics

  • 1st Edition
  • November 13, 2014
  • Max Wyss + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 7 9 9 9 3 5 - 7
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 0 0 7 6 - 2
Edited by two experts in the area, Geoethics: Ethical Challenges and Case Studies in Earth Sciences addresses a range of topics surrounding the concept of ethics in geoscience, making it an important reference for any Earth scientist with a growing concern for sustainable development and social responsibility. This book will provide the reader with some obvious and some hidden information you need for understanding where experts have not served the public, what more could have been done to reach and serve the public and the ethical issues surrounding the Earth Sciences, from a global perspective.

Coastal and Marine Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

  • 1st Edition
  • November 11, 2014
  • John F. Shroder + 2 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 6 4 8 3 - 0
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 6 5 3 8 - 7
Sea and Ocean Hazards, Risks and Disasters provides a scientific approach to those hazards and disasters related to the Earth's coasts and oceans. This is the first book to integrate scientific, social, and economic issues related to disasters such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and planning, relevant hazard process mechanics, discussions of preparedness, response, and recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. Throughout the book cases studies are presented of historically relevant hazards and disasters as well as the many recent catastrophes. 

Learning from the Impacts of Superstorm Sandy

  • 1st Edition
  • October 31, 2014
  • J. Bret Bennington + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 1 5 2 0 - 9
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 0 1 6 5 2 - 7
Learning from the Impacts of Superstorm Sandy summarizes first results from studies of Superstorm Sandy, including: tide gauge measurements of storm surge, stable isotope variation in precipitation, analysis of the effect of beach nourishment among other factors on structural damage, and comparison with past storms through sediment analysis. This book gives a multi-dimensional treatment of scientific results of studies of Superstorm Sandy, and it is a valuable reference for oceanographers, coastal geologists, climatologists, dynamic meteorologists, paleotempostologists, sedimentary geologists, geomorphologists and emergency managers who need to better understand the storm and its effects in order to be prepared for similar events in the future.

Volcanic Hazards, Risks and Disasters

  • 1st Edition
  • October 29, 2014
  • Paolo Papale + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 6 4 5 3 - 3
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 6 4 7 6 - 2
Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while integrating the social and economic issues related to volcanoes and volcanic hazards and disasters. Throughout the book case studies are presented of historically relevant volcanic and seismic hazards and disasters as well as recent catastrophes, such as Chile’s Puyehue volcano eruption in June 2011.

Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

  • 1st Edition
  • October 28, 2014
  • Paolo Paron
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 4 8 4 6 - 5
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 6 4 7 0 - 0
Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major atmospheric disasters that have had and continue to have major implications for many of the world’s people, such as floods and droughts. . This volume takes a geoscientific approach to the topic, while also covering current thinking about some directly relevant social scientific issues that can affect lives and property. Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters also contains new insights about how climate change affects hazardous processes. For the first time, information on the many diverse topics relevant to professionals is aggregated into one volume.

Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

  • 1st Edition
  • October 23, 2014
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 4 8 4 9 - 6
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 6 4 7 3 - 1
Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in glacier surges and melting, ice shelf collapses, paleo-climate reconstruction, sea level rise, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness, and mitigation. It takes a geo-scientific approach to the topic while also covering current thinking about directly related social scientific issues that can adversely affect ecosystems and global economies.

Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

  • 1st Edition
  • October 23, 2014
  • Tim Davies + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 6 4 5 2 - 6
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 9 6 4 7 5 - 5
Landslides are the most costly geo-hazard in the world, and they’re often the cause or the result of other hazards and disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires, and volcanic eruptions. Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters makes a close and detailed examination of major mass movements and provides measures for more thorough and accurate monitoring, prediction, preparedness, and prevention. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while also discussing the impacts human-induced causes such as deforestation, blasting, and building construction—underscoring the multi-disciplinary nature of the topic.

Wildfire Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

  • 1st Edition
  • October 13, 2014
  • Douglas Paton + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 0 4 3 4 - 1
  • eBook
    9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 0 9 6 0 1 - 1
More than 90% of wildfires are caused by human activity, but other causes include lighting, drought, wind and changing weather conditions, underground coal fires, and even volcanic activity. Wildfire Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, one of nine volumes in the Elsevier Hazards and Disasters series, provides a close and detailed examination of wildfires and measures for more thorough and accurate monitoring, prediction, preparedness, and prevention. It takes a geo-scientific and environmental approach to the topic while also discussing the impacts of human-induced causes such as deforestation, debris burning and arson—underscoring the multi-disciplinary nature of the topic. It presents several international case studies that discuss the historical, social, cultural and ecological aspects of wildfire risk management in countries with a long history of dealing with this hazard (e.g., USA, Australia) and in countries (e.g., Taiwan) where wildfire hazards represent a new and growing threat to the social and ecological landscape.