Disasters are events which disrupt the lives of people and cause large-scale social or economic damage, such as floods, oil spills or major fires. ...

The largest earthquake ever recorded in Haiti devastated parts of the country, including the capital, on January 12, 2010. The quake, centred about...

Damage from hurricanes is expected to increase significantly in the coming decades because of the effects of climate change and coastal development...

Hurricane Sandy struck the United States in October 2012, causing an estimated $65 billion in damages. FEMA provides assistance to survivors throug...

Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast with incredible power and fury, wreaking havoc in communities across the region. Entire neighbourhoods were f...

In 1954 Hurricane Hazel caused such destruction around Lake Ontario that it's a vivid memory half a century later. In 2003 Hurricane Juan so devast...

In 2017, four sequential disasters—hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and the California wildfires -- created an unprecedented demand for federal disa...

Chapter 1 provides a short overview of issues Congress may consider in its oversight of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA's) federal ...

Many aspects related to the efficient collection and integration of geo-information, applied semantics and situation awareness for disaster managem...

In both 2016 and 2017, 15 separate U.S. disasters resulted in losses exceeding $1 billion each. FEMA provides PA grants to state and local governme...

A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debri...

Why the word Meltdown in the title of the book? With the world heating up, bush fires wiping out whole communities, money markets and economic syst...

This book discussed on mountain regions occupy approximately one fifth of the Earth's land surface and cover 54 % of Asia's land mass. Mountain ran...

When there is a catastrophe in the United States, state and local governments lead response activities, invoking state and local legal authorities ...

This book is an overview of the National Response Framework (NRF) and how the nation conducts an all-hazards response. It is built upon scalable, f...

The most destructive storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Superstorm Sandy smashed ashore on the U.S. East Coast in October 2012 after cutt...

The National Response Framework is a guide to how the Nation responds to all types of disasters and emergencies. It is built on scalable, flexible,...

The four major types of natural environmental hazards that can result in property damages or lost lives are (1) geophysical events, such as earthqu...

CONTENTS: Disaster Management: Use of Technologies; Early Warnings for Natural Disasters; Disaster Management: The Challenges for a National Geogra...

Disasters are amongst the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Natural disasters have particularly witnessed an overwhelming escalation in the ...

In 2017, four sequential disasters - hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and the California wildfires - created an unprecedented demand for federal dis...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the prevention, risk factors and management of natural disasters. Topics discuss...

Typhoons pose a threat for coastal populations, offshore and onshore industries, shipping, agriculture, or forestry. Thus it is of great interest t...

A significant amount of natural resources such as lands, waters, biodiversity, ecosystem services etc. are all part of an agricultural system. Mode...

Nowadays, governments are more often than not confronted with crises that are so unforeseen (i.e., the 9/11 attacks), so unexpected in nature or in...

This book provides bibliographic resources on the response, restoration and research initiatives of oil spills, most notably, the Deepwater Horizon...

This book is about what happened in the southern district of Hambantota during the disaster, and in the relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction p...

This book is the hearing that took place on September 14th 2005 before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on the recovery ...

In China, a lot of Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) are in the stages of planning, design, or construction. Thus it is necessary to do a comprehensive re...

Given its size, strength, location and the enormity of its impact, Hurricane Sandy was a storm of historic proportions and importance. The damage i...

The development of new technologies that have emerged since the mid-1990s has led to Internet-based applications known as "social media" that enabl...

This monograph especially emphasises the importance of the scope, by which forest fires, from year to year endanger the environment, including casu...

From the towering pines of Shasta Trinity National Forest, to the chaparral scrub of San Diego's Mexican border, to Yosemite and the Western Sierra...

In 1950, the biggest firestorm documented in North America--one fire alone burned 3,500,000 acres of boreal forest in northern Alberta and British ...

The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was established by the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and was most recently reauthorized to May 3...

Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes affect communities across the United States every year, causing fatalities, destroying property and crops, and d...

Congress raised concerns about the possible vulnerability of U.S. coastal areas to tsunamis, and the adequacy of early warnings for coastal areas, ...

This book examines the tsunami phenomenon with the focus on its relevance for hazard assessment at nuclear power plant sites. Three tsunamigenic me...

A collection of articles that showcases the diversity of tsunami science. This is truly an interdisciplinary field that brings together seismologis...

A tsunami is a series of water waves that is caused when a large volume of a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, vo...

For most of us, the impression of the word "tsunami" is a combination of multiple elements of action movie, thriller, drama and science fiction, wh...

Natural catastrophic events such as volcano eruptions have greatly affected environments in wide regions around the world. Ash and gases impelled b...

This book is the hearing that took place in front of the U.S. House of Representatives on June 10th 2011. It provides a State and Local Perspective...

Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was shattered by one of the worst wildfires...

Various factors have emerged to increase the risk of catastrophic wildfires in our National Forests. Years of suppression of natural fires, an incr...

The present book intends to outline different approaches regarding wildland fires, showing different perspectives and challenges present in the beg...

Chapter 1 develops a better understanding of the health impacts of wildfires and what should be done to minimise those impacts. It looks closely at...

The 2000 and 2002 fire seasons were, by most standards, among the worst in the past. Many argue that the threat of severe wildfires has grown, beca...