"Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters le proporciona el último desarrollo cientifíco en la investigación del volcán y el vulcanismo, incluyendo la causalidad, impacto, preparación, análisis de riesgo, planificación, respuesta, recuperación, y las economias de pérdida y restaur…
"Monsters, Catastrophes and the Anthropocene: A Postcolonial Critique explores European and Western imaginaries of natural disaster, mass migration and terrorism through a postcolonial inquiry into modern conceptions of monstrosity and catastrophe. This book uses established ico…
"This book investigates the psycho-social phenomenon which is society's failure to respond to climate change. It analyses the non-rational dimensions of our collective paralysis in the face of worsening climate change and environmental destruction, exploring the emotional, ethic…
Éste es un ensayo singular. No se trata de demostrar que las décadas venideras serán cruciales, ni tampoco de describir lo que podría ocurrir: tenemos suficiente información al respecto. Lo que Isabelle Stengers intenta es más bien una ±intervención», como cuando, durante un deb…
"Disaster Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Concepts and Causes offers the theoretical background needed to understand what disasters are and why they occur. Drawing on related disciplines, including sociology, risk theory, and seminal research on disasters and emergency …
"The big climate question is how climate change affects climate extremes. More hurricanes such as Katrina in 2005? More floods such as that of European river Elbe in 2002? More heatwaves such as in 2003 or 2018? Where to invest resources? All this is not just scientifically chal…
"It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US,…
