Natural Disasters
epub |eng | 2008-09-16 | Author:David Roberts [Roberts, David]

( Category: Natural Disasters April 17,2022 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-09 | Author:Ilan Kelman [Kelman, Ilan]

No Vulnerability is Inevitable For the vast majority of the world’s population, full resources, choices, and opportunities are not available to tackle their disaster vulnerability. Others make decisions which impose ...
( Category: Regional Geography August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Barry, John M. [Barry, John M.]

HUNDREDS OF MILES upriver levees were bursting and 200,000 people were homeless. The rivers were still swelling. In New Orleans at noon the next day, Klorer, Garsaud, and the state ...
( Category: African-American Studies August 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-14 | Author:Mark Hudson

CHAPTER FIVE OUT OF THE FRYING PAN Catastrophic Fire as a “Crisis of Crisis Management” The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in ...
( Category: Environmental Policy August 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-15 | Author:Kendra Atleework

Those were the last days of a tenuous peace. A few weeks later, on a February night, a band of Paiutes, led by a chief who did not attend that ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays August 1,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jeffrey Schlegelmilch

EVERYBODY OWNS PART, NOBODY OWNS ALL Disasters are responded to by those immediately impacted, as well as agencies and organizations outside of the impacted area. The effects are also felt ...
( Category: Infectious Disease July 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-16 | Author:Victoria Bruce

( Category: Volcanology July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael J. Tougias & Douglas A. Campbell

CHAPTER NINETEEN PROBLEMS EVERYWHERE The entire crew on Bounty were diligently working—some individuals focusing on a single problem, others freelancing from one emergency to another as their effort was needed. ...
( Category: History July 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Jim Erickson

A lava dome began rising on the floor of the horseshoe-shaped crater. Author’s photo. The dome kept growing for months after the May 18 eruption. Author’s photo. Geologists gathered samples ...
( Category: Natural Disasters July 1,2020 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Leon Pantenburg

Flashback: Seeing a grizzly bear (from the safety of a vehicle or building) was on my bucket list. On one of the innumerable stream crossings on the Thorofare Creek trail ...
( Category: Camping June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-06 | Author:Yuri Herrera

On August 18, nearly five months after beginning his inspection, Irineo Quintero, agent of the public prosecutor’s office, in view of the judgment issued by the officially appointed expert, Inspector ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American June 27,2020 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-01-10 | Author:Vitaly Pedchenko

THE ESSENTIALS Look to your home and do what you can to secure it by covering windows and in particular sliding glass doors. Flying glass and other debris causes the ...
( Category: Natural Disasters May 2,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Hans-Joachim Heintze & Pierre Thielbörger

8 Communicable Diseases and Outbreak Control Jonas Torp Ohlsen and Siri Tellier 8.1 Concepts and Baseline Situation Infectious diseases are caused by a pathogen (prion, virus, bacteria, fungus, parasite). The ...
( Category: Natural Disasters April 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-02 | Author:Steve Mattoon [Mattoon, Steve]

Events like those that took place in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina reveal just how unprepared our population is when disaster strikes. (sandoclr, courtesy of iStock) That may sound paranoid, ...
( Category: Security April 7,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-21 | Author:Roberto E. Barrios [Barrios, Roberto E.]

During the two decades preceding Katrina, Tremé witnessed the arrival of a new group of residents who were attracted to the neighborhood by its affordable historic properties (Reckdahl 2007). Suburban ...
( Category: Natural Disasters April 6,2020 )