The Phoenix of Natural Disasters

The Phoenix of Natural Disasters
Author: Kathryn Gow
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781604561616

This book encompasses discussions between Kathryn Gow and Douglas Paton, both psychologists who have researched stress, burnout, trauma, and recovery in natural disasters. They suggest that few books have been written for health professionals, and persons directly involved with leading and managing emergency teams on what constitutes resilience in individuals and groups in communities, and how they differ in response and recovery. The outcome is a three part book with contributors from the field, research institutions, emergency service sectors, support agencies and the media. Its main purpose is to focus on the resilience of people and communities following NDs and to educate the sectors already involved in natural disasters.

The Phoenix State

The Phoenix State
Author: A. H. Abdel Salam
Publisher: The Red Sea Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2001
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781569021439

This title provides definitions for every noun, phrase, and concept use by the DEA and FDA regulations listed in alphabetical order. Each of the over 20,000 entries is quoted in context to provide instant access to every noun, phrase, and concept used by the DEA and FDA. The keyword and section title are shown in upper case, the subpart title and/or part title are shown in capitals and lower case.

Framing Community Disaster Resilience

Framing Community Disaster Resilience
Author: Hugh Deeming
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2019-01-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1119165962

An essential guide to the foundations, research and practices of community disaster resilience Framing Community Disaster Resilience offers a guide to the theories, research and approaches for addressing the complexity of community resilience towards hazardous events or disasters. The text draws on the activities and achievements of the project emBRACE: Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe. The authors identify the key dimensions of resilience across a range of disciplines and domains and present an analysis of community characteristics, networks, behaviour and practices in specific test cases. The text contains an in-depth exploration of five test cases whose communities are facing impacts triggered by different hazards, namely: river floods in Germany, earthquakes in Turkey, landslides in South Tyrol, Italy, heat-waves in London and combined fluvial and pluvial floods in Northumberland and Cumbria. The authors examine the data and indicators of past events in order to assess current situations and to tackle the dynamics of community resilience. In addition, they put the focus on empirical analysis to explore the resilience concept and to test the usage of indicators for describing community resilience. This important text: Merges the forces of research knowledge, networking and practices in order to understand community disaster resilience Contains the results of the acclaimed project Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe - emBRACE Explores the key dimensions of community resilience Includes five illustrative case studies from European communities that face various hazards Written for undergraduate students, postgraduates and researchers of social science, and policymakers, Framing Community Disaster Resilience reports on the findings of an important study to reveal the most effective approaches to enhancing community resilience. The emBRACE research received funding from the European Community‘s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement n° 283201. The European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained in this publication.

Natural Disaster Mazes

Natural Disaster Mazes
Author: Roger Moreau
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1998
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780806957272

Beware--storms are brewing, the earth is rumbling, and volcanoes are getting ready to spew forth hot ash and lava. Your task: issue a warning to those who live in the danger zone. But you'll have to get through these mazes in order to accomplish your mission. Do you have the courage to face these natural disasters? * Tornado! Make your way through the cornfield to reach a threatened town and go from door to door until everyone's out safely. * Help--a little puppy's caught in a hurricane. Can you rescue it? * From San Francisco to Alaska, earthquakes shake the ground. Scramble through tunnels to place a sensor probe in a fault; find a clear path to the victims; and get out of town before the roads crumble.* Prevent an avalanche by dynamiting a mountain--but you'll have to climb up there first. * The animals in this flooded farmland have climbed on top of houses and barns to escape. Get in a boat and navigate through a clear waterway, so you can bring all of them to dry land. * Fire has destroyed a wooded area. If you can plant a tree at each flag--without backtracking--you'll reforest it. * Evacuate campers caught in a forest fire and trapped by the foot of an exploding volcano. You'll need all your wits to succeed! 64 pages, 43 b/w illus., 8 1/4 x 11.

Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire

Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire
Author: Yaron Ayalon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107072972

Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire's history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.

Disaster Health Management

Disaster Health Management
Author: Gerry FitzGerald
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1317434846

Disaster health is an emerging field that focuses on developing prevention, preparation, response and recovery systems for dealing with health problems that result from a disaster. As disasters worldwide differ in their nature, scope and cultural context, a thorough understanding of the fundamental tenets of sound disaster health management is essential for both students and practitioners to participate confidently and effectively in the field. Disaster Health Management is the first comprehensive textbook to provide a standard guide to terminology and management systems across the entire spectrum of disaster health. Authored by experienced educators, researchers and practitioners in disaster health management, this textbook provides an authoritative overview of: The conceptual basis for disaster management Systems and structures for disaster management Managing disasters through the continuum of preparedness, response and recovery The variations associated with both natural and technological disasters The strategic considerations associated with leadership, research, education and future directions. Using Australasian systems and structures as examples of generic principles which will find application globally, Disaster Health Management is an essential text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as for professionals involved in all aspects of disaster management.

Inside Risk: A Strategy for Sustainable Risk Mitigation

Inside Risk: A Strategy for Sustainable Risk Mitigation
Author: Scira Menoni
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2011-05-17
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 8847018420

This book comprises the main results of the Scenario (Support on Common European Strategy for sustainable natural and induced technological hazards mitigation) project, funded as a Specific Support Action under the VI FP. This book addresses three main needs: first, it constitutes an assessment of the situation of Europe as far as natural na-tech risks are considered; second, it suggests future research themes to be opened of widened so as to tackle new and emerging threats as well as changes in the potential response to risk governance, in order to improve the way scientific and technical expertise informs decision making regarding all fields of mitigation, ranging from structural to non structural measures, such as training, education and land use planning.

Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters
Author: Ingrid Johnston
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2016-05-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1443894125

What would you do if a category five monster cyclone was headed your way? Drive as far as you could, as quickly as you could in the opposite direction? What if there were no cars? What if there were no roads? What if you were on a tiny island? What if there was nowhere to run to? How would you feel, knowing that when it was over it could be weeks before anyone came to help? Thousands of people live with this possibility every day, and their resilience and coping skills are incredible. However, climate change threatens to make these events worse, and all the while the sea levels are rising, and these islands are sinking. Bringing together the perspectives of the people on small, remote islands in the South Pacific, the aid organisations who help after a disaster, and the governments, this book investigates how we should respond. These are the stories of people for whom climate change is not a theoretical future, but a daily reality.

Designing Water Disaster Management Policies

Designing Water Disaster Management Policies
Author: Chennat Gopalakrishnan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2017-10-02
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1317396332

This book represents a landmark effort to probe and analyze the theory and empirics of designing water disaster management policies. It consists of seven chapters that examine, in-depth and comprehensively, issues that are central to crafting effective policies for water disaster management. The author uses historical surveys, institutional analysis, econometric investigations, empirical case studies, and conceptual-theoretical discussions to clarify and illuminate the complex policy process. The specific topics studied in this book include a review and analysis of key policy areas and research priority areas associated with water disaster management, community participation in disaster risk reduction, the economics and politics of ‘Green’ flood control, probabilistic flood forecasting for flood risk management, polycentric governance and flood risk management, drought management with the aid of dynamic inter-generational preferences, and how social resilience can inform SA/SIA for adaptive planning for climate change in vulnerable areas. A unique feature of this book is its analysis of the causes and consequences of water disasters and efforts to address them successfully through policy-rich, cross-disciplinary and transnational papers. This book is designed to help enrich the sparse discourse on water disaster management policies and galvanize water professionals to craft creative solutions to tackle water disasters efficiently, equitably, and sustainably. This book should also be of considerable use to disaster management professionals, in general, and natural resource policy analysts. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Natural Resource Policy Research.

Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency

Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency
Author: DeMond S. Miller
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1420088238

Once again nature‘s fury has taken a toll in pain, suffering, and lives lost. In recognition of the need for a rapid and appropriate response, CRC Press will donate $5 to the American Red Cross for every copy of Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency: Exploring Global Opportunities and Challenges sold. In the past, societies would learn from di