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Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways that the disaster could have been prevented and how the risk of similar disasters can be minimized in the future. Treats disasters as complex systems.Provides predictions based upon sound science, such as what the buildup of certain radiant gases in the troposphere will do, or what will happen if current transoceanic crude oil transport continues.Considers the impact of human systems
Environmental disasters. --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Disasters --- Ecological disturbances
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Environmental disasters. --- Biological disasters. --- Disasters --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Ecological disturbances
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Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Second Edition provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth’s biosphere caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid strikes, with important implications for humans. This second edition from Elsevier’s Hazards and Disasters Series incorporates perspectives from the natural and social sciences to offer in-depth coverage of threats from microscopic organisms to celestial objects and their potential impacts. Contributions from expert biological, health, ecological, environmental, wildlife, physical, and health scientists, readers will gain valuable insights on damages, causality, economic impacts, preparedness, and mitigation.
Environmental disasters. --- Natural disasters. --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Ecological disturbances --- Natural Disasters
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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 topi
Geology. Earth sciences --- Organization theory --- Natural disasters. --- Environmental disasters. --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Disasters --- Ecological disturbances --- Natural calamities
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disasters --- natural hazards --- risk management --- geography --- hydrology --- GIS --- Geomorphology --- Environmental disasters --- Environmental disasters. --- Geomorphology. --- Geomorphic geology --- Physiography --- Physical geography --- Landforms --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Disasters --- Ecological disturbances --- gis
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environmental accounts --- economic problems of global warming --- nature protection --- sustainable social development --- human-made disasters --- ecological disasters --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Sustainable development --- Environmental management --- Human ecology --- Économie de l'environnement --- Environmental economics. --- Economics --- Environmental quality --- Environmental aspects --- Economic aspects
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"This book explores the role of apocalypse in Old Norse mythology and literature, relating it to the threat of ecological catastrophe today"--
Environmental disasters. --- Apocalypse in literature. --- Disasters in literature. --- Mythology, Norse. --- Old Norse literature --- Mythology, Scandinavian --- Norse mythology --- Scandinavian mythology --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Disasters --- Ecological disturbances --- History and criticism.
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Empire and Catastrophe examines natural and anthropogenic disasters during the years of decolonization in Algeria, Morocco, and France, and explores the ways in which environmental catastrophes both shaped and were shaped by struggles over the dissolution of France's empire in North Africa. Four disasters make up the core of the book: the 1954 earthquake in Algeria's Chelif Valley, just weeks before the onset of the Algerian Revolution; a mass poisoning in Morocco in 1959 caused by toxic substances from an American military base; the 1959 Malpasset dam collapse in Frejus, France, which devastated the Algerian immigrant community in the town but which was blamed on Algerian sabotage; and the 1960 earthquake in Agadir, Morocco, which set off a public relations war between the United States, France, and the Soviet Union, and which ignited a Moroccan national debate over modernity, identity, architecture, and urban planning. Empire and Catastrophe is the first book-length study of environmental disasters during the decolonization of the French empire. Interrogating distinctions between agent and environment and between political and environmental violence, through the lenses of state archives and through the remembered experiences and literary representations of disaster survivors, this book argues for the integration of environmental events into narratives of political and cultural decolonization. Empire and Catastrophe will be sought after by environmental historians and North Africa area studies specialists as well as historians of France and French imperialism. Written in engaging prose, the book will appeal to the broader public's interest in natural disasters, and will become required reading for undergraduates in courses on natural disasters in world history.
Environmental disasters --- Imperialism --- Decolonization --- Poltiical aspects --- Environmental aspects. --- France --- Colonies --- History. --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Disasters --- Ecological disturbances
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Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Disasters are an increasingly common and complex combination of environmental, social and cultural factors. Yet existing response frameworks and emergency plans tend to homogenise affected populations as 'victims', overlooking the distinctive experience, capacities and skills of children and young people. Drawing on participatory research with more than 550 children internationally, this book argues for a radical transformation in children's roles and voices in disasters. It shows practitioners, policy-makers and researchers how more child-centred disaster management, that recognises children's capacity to enhance disaster resilience, actually benefits at-risk communities as a whole.
Resilience (Personality trait) in children. --- Emergency management --- Decision making in children. --- Environmental disasters --- Citizen participation. --- Prevention. --- Social aspects. --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Disasters --- Ecological disturbances --- Consequence management (Emergency management) --- Disaster planning --- Disaster preparedness --- Disaster prevention --- Disaster relief --- Emergencies --- Emergency planning --- Emergency preparedness --- Management --- Public safety --- First responders --- Child psychology --- Planning --- Preparedness --- Prevention
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Across contemporary Asia, each day dawns with a new story about living in an era of profound environmental change. Rapid transformations in the landscape, society, and technology produce new conflicts that are experienced at nearly every scale of life in the region. Environmental change is marked in square kilometers or micrometers, in cities or in households, within national boundaries and beyond. These changes appear in the form of radical ruptures wrought both by spectacular catastrophes like massive floods or tsunamis and by slow tragedies like the widening epidemic of asthma or the grinding processes of land dispossession. Each of these scales and phenomena reveals what it is to live in disastrous times.This book explores how people across Asia live through and make sense of the environmental ruptures that now shape the region and asks how we might analyze this moment of disruption and risk. Global environmental shifts such as climate change are usually linked to large-scale practices such as industrialization, urbanization, and global capitalism. Here, in contrast, contributors illustrate how understanding the practical, political, and ethical consequences of living in a moment of planetary change—or intervening in its course—requires engaging with the human-scale actions and specific policies that both shape and respond to such transformations at an everyday level. Coastal residents of routinely flooded Semarang, eco-conscious retirees in a Chinese suburb, and cyclists navigating air pollution in Kolkata each experience environmental risk and change in highly situated and specific ways; yet attending to their lived, "idian experiences enables us to apprehend the complex processes that are profoundly changing the planet.Contributors: Nikolaj Blichfeldt, Vivian Choi, Eli Elinoff, Jenny Elaine Goldstein, Andrew Alan Johnson, Samuel Kay, Lukas Ley, Edmund Joo Vin Oh, Malini Sur, Tyson Vaughan.
Environmental disasters --- Urbanization --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Asia --- Environmental conditions --- Cities and towns, Movement to --- Urban development --- Urban systems --- Cities and towns --- Social history --- Sociology, Rural --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban policy --- Rural-urban migration --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Disasters --- Ecological disturbances --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Business. --- Economics. --- Political Science. --- Public Policy.
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