Large-Scale Disasters: Prediction, Control, and MitigationMohamed Gad-el-Hak Cambridge University Press, 2008 M06 23 'Extreme' events - including climatic events, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, drought - can cause massive disruption to society, including large death tolls and property damage in the billions of dollars. Events in recent years have shown the importance of being prepared and that countries need to work together to help alleviate the resulting pain and suffering. This volume presents an integrated review of the broad research field of large-scale disasters. It establishes a common framework for predicting, controlling and managing both manmade and natural disasters. There is a particular focus on events caused by weather and climate change. Other topics include air pollution, tsunamis, disaster modeling, the use of remote sensing and the logistics of disaster management. It will appeal to scientists, engineers, first responders and health-care professionals, in addition to graduate students and researchers who have an interest in the prediction, prevention or mitigation of large-scale disasters. |
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... International Journal of Emergency Man- agement; International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters; and Natural Hazards Review. Numerous resources are available on the Internet. A Google. 1 There are a few popular science or high ...
... International Journal of Emergency Man- agement; International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters; and Natural Hazards Review. Numerous resources are available on the Internet. A Google. 1 There are a few popular science or high ...
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... international cooperation. More details are forthcoming in Chapters 20 and 21. Producing and managing better information about the environment has become a top priority for nations around the globe. In July 2003, the Earth Observation ...
... international cooperation. More details are forthcoming in Chapters 20 and 21. Producing and managing better information about the environment has become a top priority for nations around the globe. In July 2003, the Earth Observation ...
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... international cooperative effort to bring together existing and new hardware and software, making it all compatible in order to supply data and information at no cost. The United States and developed nations have a unique role in ...
... international cooperative effort to bring together existing and new hardware and software, making it all compatible in order to supply data and information at no cost. The United States and developed nations have a unique role in ...
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... International , Inc. , as the consulting structural engineering firm . Gillum - Colaco Engineering ( G.C.E. ) provided input into various plans that were being made by the architect and owner , and were contracted in 1978 to provide ...
... International , Inc. , as the consulting structural engineering firm . Gillum - Colaco Engineering ( G.C.E. ) provided input into various plans that were being made by the architect and owner , and were contracted in 1978 to provide ...
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... international terrorism and state sponsorship of the same. The difficulty of the war on terrorism, now raging for more than 6 years, is that it is mostly a struggle between a super power and a nebulously defined enemy: thousands of ...
... international terrorism and state sponsorship of the same. The difficulty of the war on terrorism, now raging for more than 6 years, is that it is mostly a struggle between a super power and a nebulously defined enemy: thousands of ...
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