Vulnerability And Resilience To Natural Hazards
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Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards
Author: Sven Fuchs
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2018-03-22
A comprehensive overview of the concepts of vulnerability and resilience for natural hazards research for both physical and social scientists.
Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research
Author: Fernando I. Rivera
language: en
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Release Date: 2019-06-08
Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research provides a synthesis of the most pressing issues in natural hazards research by new professionals. The book begins with an overview of emerging research on natural hazards, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, sea-level rise, global warming, climate change, and tornadoes, among others. Remaining sections include topics such as socially vulnerable populations and the cycles of emergency management. Emerging Voices in Natural Hazards Research is intended to serve as a consolidated resource for academics, students, and researchers to learn about the most pressing issues in natural hazard research today.
At Risk
The second edition of At Risk confronts a further ten years of ever more expensive and deadly disasters since it was first published, and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed.