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"Environmental Disasters is an important new study into catastrophic events, natural and man-induced or a combination of both. It reviews the most significant disasters that have taken place in the past and analyses the results of research following more recent events. Risk mapping, using data from satellite monitoring, is highlighted as a method by which preventative or mitigating measures can be put in place."--Jacket.

Stay Safe in the City. Here's the book that won't advise you to flee the city and set up a homestead to avoid potential disasters. With many other survival-planning resources emphasizing that approach, urban dwellers that plan to stay put in the city, no matter the circumstances, have been overlooked. Not only do 58 percent of Americans live in cities, but certain risks are higher in cities than elsewhere. Urban Emergency Survival Plan delivers a...

James Cornell outlines human response to natural disasters.

A wave a third of a mile high, men and animals levitated, a lightning ball that shattered a church -- these and many other true incidents are recounted in this book which presents Nature in its most violent moods. The phenomena covered range from wind and hail storms, lightning and floods to the devastation wrought by earthquakes and volcanoes. There is also a chapter on meteoroids -- those visitants from outer space that sometimes plunge through...

"Natural disasters bedevil our planet, and each appears to be a unique event. Leading geologist Susan W. Kieffer shows how all disasters are connected. Humans persist in building centers of civilization in places of past disasters. We believe that our technology will protect us next time. Yet we rarely win these battles with the earth because we don't understand natural disasters deeply enough. Susan W. Kieffer has two goals for her unique book. The...

A Canadian Science Writers Award-winning author presents an analysis of humanity's role in catastrophic natural disasters to consider whether or not such threats are increasing and how they can be managed.

From the Black Plague to the recent volcanic eruption in the Philippines, Natural Disasters provides a comprehensive world survey of natural calamities that have devastated mankind and even altered the course of human history. The more than 380 entries contained in this impressive volume encompass a wide range of events, including avalanches and landslides, hurricanes, earthquakes, icestorms and snowstorms, famines and droughts, tornadoes, floods,...

Environmental historian Lee has written several volumes. In most man-made disasters (I assume feminists will allow the guys to take credit), he finds that human error is a white-washing of stupidity, neglect, and avariciousness. He provides chronological lists of the worst, and descriptions of selected air crashes, civil unrest and terrorism, explosions, fires, maritime disasters, nuclear and industrial accidents, railway disasters, and space disasters....

"A meteorite destroying Los Angeles? Another ice age? A star explosion? Impossible! not so, according to astronomer Gerrit Verschuur, who combines science fiction and science fact in this remarkable new book. 'Cosmic Catastrophes' predicts disasters on the largest possible scale, catastrophes that could destroy our entire planet. They could happen in a billion years or a thousand, in a decade... or tomorrow. A nearby star explodes; a large meteorite...