Studies in Environment and History: The Nature of Disaster i…

Please Disable Adblock to Show Download Link
READ & DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Anthony N. Penna
Genre : History

Summary : Natural Disasters in a Global Environment is atransnational, global and environmental history of natural andman-made disasters. Detailed case studies of past and presentevents are presented in a historical narrative, making use of themost recent scholarship. Examines a range of disasters including v

Please Disable Adblock to Show Download Link
READ & DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Benjamin Reilly
Genre : Human beings

Summary : "This book examines the relationship between mankind and the natural environment through the lens of natural disasters, where the interaction between humanity and its environment comes into sharpest focus. The text achieves this goal through the examination of 22 case studies spanning the last 150 y

Please Disable Adblock to Show Download Link
READ & DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Andrea JANKU
Genre : History

Summary : Growing concerns about climate change and the increasing occurrence of ever more devastating natural disasters in some parts of the world and their consequences for human life, not only in the immediately affected regions, but for all of us, have increased our desire to learn more about disaster exp

Please Disable Adblock to Show Download Link
READ & DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Adam Sundberg
Genre : Nature

Summary : An environmental history of natural disasters during the eighteenth-century decline of the Dutch Republic.

Please Disable Adblock to Show Download Link
READ & DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : James Kendra
Genre : Science

Summary : The 50th anniversary of the Disaster Research Center of the University of Delaware provoked a discussion of the field’s background, its accomplishments, and its future directions. Participants representing many disciplines brought new methods to bear on perennial problems relevant to effective dis

Please Disable Adblock to Show Download Link
READ & DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Dominik Collet
Genre : Science

Summary : This highly interdisciplinary book studies historical famines as an interface of nature and culture. It will bring together researchers from the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. With reference to recent interdisciplinary concepts (disaster studies, vulnerability studies, enviro

Please Disable Adblock to Show Download Link
READ & DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Adam Sundberg
Genre : NATURE

Summary : "The world is growing more hazardous. Natural disasters are increasing in frequency and severity, spurred in part by changes associated with a warming planet. In their 2020 joint report, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disaster

Please Disable Adblock to Show Download Link
READ & DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Cuirong Liu
Genre : Climatic changes

Summary : "This book examines the local realities and environmental changes in East Asia, and is one of a few publications in English on the subject. Contributors apply rich historical material, maps and statistical data to reveal the local environmental realities infused by global perspectives. Part I deals

Please Disable Adblock to Show Download Link
READ & DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Tim Soens
Genre : History

Summary : What do we mean when we say that cities have altered humanity’s interaction with nature? The more people are living in cities, the more nature is said to be "urbanizing": turned into a resource, mobilized over long distances, controlled, transformed and then striking back with a vengeance as "natu

Please Disable Adblock to Show Download Link
READ & DOWNLOAD eBooks
Author : Jan Kozák
Genre : Nature

Summary : This book tells the story of the Earth itself, explaining the interplay of its gradual geologi- levolution, presented as a generally slow and safe process, with the sudden manifestations of natural hazards, which involve disasters that affect the environment and lead to huge material damage and huma