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This book shows how the Fukushima plaintiffs have challenged narratives of safety and risk containment produced by TEPCO and the Japanese government through offering new empirical data on risk perce……続きを見る

A definitive resource, the Introduction to Emergency Management and Disaster Science presents the essentials to better understand and manage disasters. The third edition of this popular text has bee……続きを見る

This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over t……続きを見る

Wayne has forecasted the avalanche in California on March 3, 2018, that closed a portion of the California highway months in advance. Now he is bringing his forecast method to this book. Readers wil……続きを見る

In response to the explosion of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in March 2011, this book examines how the concept of a risk society was handled in the various education programs implemented in pos……続きを見る

This book highlights the current issues, challenges, and priorities for climate change adaptation in the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The status of each c……続きを見る

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The papers discuss advances in the field……続きを見る

Découvrez 75 000 ans d'adaptation aux catastrophes climatiques : Astéroïdes, explosions volcaniques, pluies, épisodes de chaleur et de froid, autant de cataclysmes qui ont déterminé notre évolution ……続きを見る

After being lost to history for more than a century, La tragedia de la inundación de San Antonio is widely available for the first time, translated into English to commemorate the hundred-year anniv……続きを見る

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021). It emphasizes on the role of civil engineering for a disaster resilient society. It prese……続きを見る

Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay's myriad inlets in summer, it is hard to imagine that, come January, icebreakers may be plowing the waters you cruised in July. When portions of the Great Shellfish Bay……続きを見る

The book demonstrates the geospatial technology approach to data mining techniques, data analysis, modeling, risk assessment, visualization, and management strategies in different aspects of natural……続きを見る

This book aims to provide insight into how Southeast Asian countries have responded to disasters, recovered, and rebuilt. It investigates emergency response and disaster recovery cases at national l……続きを見る

This book focuses on the application of geospatial technologies to study the land use land cover (LULC) dynamics, agricultural water management, water resources assessment and modeling, and studies ……続きを見る

Natural disasters are those caused by nature. Examples of which are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis. They cannot be avoided but extent of damages can be curbed depending on the level of……続きを見る

COVID-19 has made differential impacts on countries and communities around the world. China, where COVID-19 started, has developed and utilized different types of technologies, including both tradit……続きを見る

This book presents key principles of the hydraulics of river basins, with a unique focus on the interplay between stream flows and sediment transport. Addressing a number of basic topics related to ……続きを見る

A memoir of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster and their profound impact on our family 私たち家族の人生を劇的に変えた東日本大震災、そして福島原発事故の記録 Peter……続きを見る

This book brings together diverse perspectives concerning uncertainty and climate change in India. Uncertainty is a key factor shaping climate and environmental policy at international, national and……続きを見る

National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a ……続きを見る

In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award–winning story of the Dust Bowl rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows. The dust storms that ter……続きを見る

Acclaimed Dutch author Saskia Goldschmidt explores the dangers of industrial gas extraction, changing farming methods and their impact on our environment, and what it means to have your identity int……続きを見る

The volume explains how risk and decision-making analytics can be applied to the wicked problem of protecting infrastructure and society from extreme events. There is increasing research that takes ……続きを見る

The book, after two introductory chapters on seismic design principles and structural seismic analysis methods, proceeds with the detailed description of seismic design methods for steel building st……続きを見る

This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries. Scholars recently have brought about a shift in their focus r……続きを見る

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The papers discuss advances in the field……続きを見る

Breathing Again is an inspirational memoir following the stories of those whose lives intersected with the author’s during the days and weeks of Hurricane Harvey. While the timeline of Hurricane Har……続きを見る

In one of his songs, Roger Waters, says: "When the alien anthropologists find the earth and find out our race has gone extinct on it. They try to find the reason and finally arrive at this one: "Thi……続きを見る

This guide will help you survive one of the most common and deadly disasters that occurs throughout the world – flooding. Volume 1 in a series of pocket guides that take you through the vital steps ……続きを見る

The Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management series deals with a wide range of issues relating to global environmental hazards, natural and man-made disasters, and approaches to disaster ……続きを見る