Coping with Natural Disasters
Title | Coping with Natural Disasters PDF eBook |
Author | Justin Healey |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2021-07 |
Genre | Emergency management |
ISBN | 9781922274441 |
Australia’s variable climate, geography and environment frequently places communities, infrastructure, ecosystems and cultural and heritage sites in the path of natural hazard events. Natural hazards are driven primarily by weather and geology. Weather-driven natural hazards include bushfires, floods, heatwaves, cyclones, landslides and thunderstorms, while geological-driven hazards include earthquakes and tsunami. The major bushfires and floods of the past two years have demonstrated how increasingly exposed the nation is to natural hazards, causing distressing loss of life and property, and devastating the environment. A recent royal commission has exposed gaping holes in Australia’s readiness for natural disasters. How should we better prepare for natural hazards and mitigate their impacts from becoming disasters; and how can we cope during and after they have occurred? What could we do at a government, emergency services, community and personal level to protect ourselves, develop resilience, and recover from the next major natural disaster?
Coping with Natural Disasters
Title | Coping with Natural Disasters PDF eBook |
Author | Allison Draper |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 9781435886292 |
Explains what a disaster is and how to cope physically and emotionally with its devastating effects.
Coping With Natural Disasters
Title | Coping With Natural Disasters PDF eBook |
Author | Allison Stark Draper |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2000-12-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780823920716 |
Discusses such natural disasters as earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, and hurricanes, and how one can prepare and respond to these disasters.
Helping Children Prepare for and Cope with Natural Disasters
Title | Helping Children Prepare for and Cope with Natural Disasters PDF eBook |
Author | Annette LaGreca |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 1995-02 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780788116247 |
Assesses the long-term impact of Hurricane Andrew on the children of South Florida. Includes step-by-step specific activities to be used to help children after a disaster, as well lessons to be used at the beginning of each Hurricane season, & an activity to use during a warning of a possible natural disaster. Annotated bibliography, references & suggested additional readings.
Management of Natural Disasters
Title | Management of Natural Disasters PDF eBook |
Author | S. Syngellakis |
Publisher | WIT Press |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2016-12-12 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1784662291 |
Comprising a selection of articles dedicated to disaster management this volume focuses on the challenges arising from extreme natural phenomena and descriptions of methods for assessing their occurrence probability and of measures for mitigating their intensity and detrimental effects. The first group of articles describes general strategies for risk assessment and mitigation, providing examples in the context of various kinds of natural disasters. The economic impact of mitigation measures, communities’ differing coping capabilities, human attitudes towards relocation and possible links to climate change are among the topics considered. Natural strategies are outlined in the contexts of Turkey, Brazil and United Arab Emirates. The second part of the book is concerned with disasters from specific natural causes starting with a group of ten articles on floods. The corresponding contributions address flood frequency, vulnerability and resilience of communities, response of small and medium enterprises, risk in terms of financial losses, private investment participation to mitigation measures, assessment of design solutions against flood hazard, sleeper dykes as a means of reducing risk, preparedness of hospitals, causes of highway flooding and their relative importance, and impact of floods on poor communities. The third set of articles are related to earthquake-related hazards describing, in particular, an analysis tool providing integrated risk, coping capacity and management output, a method for assessing vulnerability considering key contributing factors, a technique for urban aftershock management and damage assessment, and neural network modelling to estimate tsunami damage. Finally, a group of three articles address issues related to landslides, namely, slope management as a means of reducing risk and losses, early warning based on rainfall data, and hazard prediction using favourability function modelling and spatial target mapping software. Providing a unique global perspective this volume focuses on recent developments over a wide range of topics that cannot be found in similar, currently available, publications in this field. This is a valuable addition to the relevant literature available to researchers and engineers working on risk assessment and mitigation of natural disaster intensity and consequences. It will appeal of those working in academic and research environments as well as governmental, professional, national and international organisations.
Coping with the Aftermath of Natural Disasters
Title | Coping with the Aftermath of Natural Disasters PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa A. Crayton |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2019-12-15 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1725341336 |
Floods, blizzards, earthquakes, and tornadoes are just a few of the natural disasters occurring frequently around the world. They are unpredictable and destructive, and can spark fear and confusion in the hearts of those who have experienced them. Natural disasters can even cause anxiety for those just reading headlines in the news or on social media, or who know someone who has been affected. Readers need accurate and trustworthy information to understand what's happening to themselves and their community. They will discover tested strategies to help navigate their feelings, practice self-care, and assist others through the storm's aftermath.
A Safer Future
Title | A Safer Future PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 85 |
Release | 1991-02-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309045460 |
Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally. The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.