Biogeochemical Cycles in Globalization and Sustainable Development
This valuable study of environmental subsystems functioning under various climatic and anthropogenic conditions provides ...
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Climate and Land Degradation
In many parts of the world, climatic variations are recognized as one of the major factors contributing to land degradation ...
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Ecological Responses to the 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens
The eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, had a momentous impact on the fungal, plant, animal, and human life from ...
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Ethnocultural Perspectives on Disaster and Trauma
In this pioneering volume, experts on individual and collective trauma experience, posttraumatic stress and related syndromes, ...
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International Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Occurrence, Mitigation, and Consequences
Reports of natural disasters fill the media with regularity. Places in the world are affected by natural disaster events ...
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Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather A Coastal State's Adaptation Challenges and Successes
This book takes an in-depth look at Louisiana as a state which is ahead of the curve in terms of extreme weather events, ...
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Macroeconomic Risk Management Against Natural Disasters
Natural disasters cause considerable economic damage. While developed countries usually are able to cope with the impacts ...
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Mitigation of Natural Hazards and Disasters
This book examines the aspects of prevention, mitigation, and management of environmental hazards and disasters from an international ...
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Natural Disasters and Extreme Events in Agriculture
Agricultural production is highly dependent on weather, climate and water availability and is adversely affected by the weather ...
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Natural Disasters as Interactive Components of Global-Ecodynamics
This book opens a new approach to the study of global environmental changes having unfavourable character for mankind and ...
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Tsunami : The Underrated Hazard (Second Edition)
Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard, 2nd Edition, comprehensively describes the nature and process of tsunami formation, outlines ...
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