Natural Disasters in a Global Environment

Natural Disasters in a Global Environment

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Penna, Anthony N.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Series:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Subjects:
Environmental disasters > History.
Natural disasters > Environmental aspects.
Natural disasters > History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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