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|a Penna, Anthony N.
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|a Natural Disasters in a Global Environment
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|a 1 online resource (362 p.).
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|a New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
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|a Description based upon print version of record.
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|a Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Background -- Responses to Hazards and Disasters -- The Global and Environmental Basis for this Book -- The Emergence of Climate Science and its Relationship to Natural Disasters -- Conclusion -- Chapter 1: Supervolcanoes -- Introduction -- The Mt. Toba Eruption (73,000 BP) -- The Mt. Toba eruption and the human bottleneck controversy -- Conclusion -- The Thera (Santorini) Eruption in the Aegean Sea (1600 BCE) -- Minoan civilization -- The Santorini eruption
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|a The physical, social, and cultural meaning of this supervolcano -- Conclusion -- Mt. Tambora (1815) and Krakatau (1883) -- Conclusion -- The Mt. Pinatubo Eruption (1991) -- The Luzon earthquake -- a harbinger -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Global effects -- A Threatening Future Scenario -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2: Earthquakes -- Introduction -- The San Francisco Earthquake (1906) -- The city's early history of growth and its susceptibility to earthquakes -- The earthquake -- The fire -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Great Kanto Earthquake (1923)
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|a Introduction -- The earthquake -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Haitian Earthquake (2010) -- Introduction -- Hispaniola's geology -- Haiti's history -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Tsunamis -- Introduction -- Lisbon, Portugal: The Quadruple Disaster (1755) -- The earthquake -- The fire -- The tsunami -- Scientific and religious thought and the birth of modern seismology -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Lituya Bay Mega-Tsunami (1958) -- The earthquake -- The landslides -- The tsunami -- Lituya Bay historical accounts
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|a Modeling efforts fail -- Relief and rebuilding -- The Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake (2004) -- The earthquake -- The tsunami -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Tōhoku (Japan) Tsunami (2011) -- Introduction -- The earthquake -- The tsunami -- Nuclear disaster -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Japan's energy future -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: Fire -- Introduction -- The Burning of Rome (68 CE) -- The fire -- Circus Maximus -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Great Fire of London (1666) -- Introduction -- The fire -- Rebuilding
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|a Conclusion -- The Chicago and Peshtigo Fires (1871) -- Introduction -- The Chicago fire -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Peshtigo fire (1871) -- Introduction -- The fire -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- Another explanation for the causes of the Chicago and Peshtigo fires -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5: Floods -- Introduction -- Central China Floods (1931) -- Introduction -- Geography -- The floods -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Dutch Flood Disaster (1953) -- Introduction -- Geography -- The flood of 1953 -- Relief efforts
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|a "Natural Disasters in a Global Environment is a transnational, global and environmental history of natural and man-made disasters. Detailed case studies of past and present events are presented in a historical narrative, making use of the most recent scholarship. - Examines a range of disasters including volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, landslides, hurricanes, famines, and more - Highlights the role of science in studying natural disasters and describes the mechanisms responsible for them - Features a range of case studies which can be used in conjunction with one another or as standalone examples - Covers scientific material in a lucid and accessible style suited to undergraduate students or those outside of scientific disciplines - Traces the transition of our understanding of disasters, from religious and superstitious explanations to contemporary scientific accounts"--
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|a Environmental disasters
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|a Natural disasters
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