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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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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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Beginning with one of the most remarkable ecological collapses of recent time, that of the passenger pigeon, Hadlock goes on to survey collapse processes across the entire spectrum of the natural and man-made world. He takes us through extreme weather events, technological disasters, evolutionary processes, crashing markets and companies, the chaotic nature of Earth's orbit, revolutionary political change, the spread and elimination of disease, and many other fascinating cases. His key thesis is that one or more of six fundamental dynamics consistently show up across this wide range. These six sources of collapse can all be best described and investigated using fundamental mathematical concepts. They include low probability events, group dynamics, evolutionary games, instability, nonlinearity, and network effects, all of which are explained in readily understandable terms. Almost the entirety of the book can be understood by readers with a minimal mathematical background, but even professional mathematicians are likely to get rich insights from the range of examples. The author tells his story with a warmly personal tone and weaves in many of his own experiences, whether from his consulting career of racing around the world trying to head off industrial disasters to his story of watching collapse after collapse in the evolution of an ecosystem on his New Hampshire farm.

Disasters --- Catastrophes --- Mathematical models --- Modèles mathématiques --- Calamities --- Curiosities and wonders --- Accidents --- Hazardous geographic environments --- Mathematical models. --- Environmental disasters --- Eco-disasters --- Ecological disasters --- Ecological disturbances

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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.