Incident Management. -- Incident Overview - A Quick Look. -- Coping With the Response To Mass Fatalities. -- Responder Protection. -- Search and Recovery Operations. -- Morgue Operations. -- Personal Effects Operations. -- Family Assistance. -- Media Operations. -- Logistical Su…
Sea and Ocean Hazards, Risks and Disasters provides a scientific approach to those hazards and disasters related to the Earth's coasts and oceans. This is the first book to integrate scientific, social, and economic issues related to disasters such as hazard identification, risk…
The geology of earthquakes
by Yeats, Robert S., Sieh, Kerry E., Allen, Clarence Roderic
Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth's biosphere. Many of these are caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid str…
This work is aimed primarily at health sector professionals who participate in disaster preparedness, response, and mitigation. The intersectoral perspective is now so essential, however, that anyone interested in disaster reduction will find here a useful primer. Public health …
Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management focuses on manifested threats to humans and their welfare as a result of natural disasters. The book uses an integrative approach to address socio-cultural, political and physical components of the disast…
"Disasters and their management are today central to public and political agendas. Rather than being understood as exclusively acts of God and Nature, natural disasters are increasingly analysed as social vulnerability exposed by natural hazards. A disaster following an earthqua…
Riesgos naturales: procesos de la Tierra como Riesgos, Desastres y Catástrofes es un estudio no técnico, de nivel universitario sobre los procesos de la superficie terrestre que tienen un impacto directo, a menudo repentino y violento, en la humanidad. Este libro combina princip…
