Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

International Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Occurrence, Mitigation, and Consequences

  • Book
  • © 2004

Overview

Editors:
  1. John Lidstone

    1. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Lisa M. Dechano

    1. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Joseph P. Stoltman

    1. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Experts on natural disaster topics and regional experts on natural disasters provide compelling information

Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 21)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (27 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Earthquakes

    • Walter Hays
    Pages 11-36

  3. Volcanoes

    • Raymundo S. Punongbayan
    Pages 37-62

  4. Windstorms

    • Tony Gibbs
    Pages 63-86

  5. Global Flooding

    • John Handmer
    Pages 87-106

  6. Wildfires

    • Steven Yool
    Pages 107-130

  7. Mass Movement

    • Lisa M. Dechano
    Pages 131-146

  8. Drought

    • D. A. Wilhite
    Pages 147-162

  9. Natural Hazards in Japan

    • Hiroshi Sasaki, Shuji Yamakawa
    Pages 163-180

  10. Natural Disasters in China

    • Yang Hua Ting
    Pages 181-192

  11. Natural Disasters in Oceania

    • George Pararas-Carayannis
    Pages 193-210

  12. Hazard Mitigation in South and Southeast Asia

    • Nehal Karim
    Pages 211-230

  13. Natural Disasters in Africa

    • Belinda Dodson
    Pages 231-245

  14. Natural Disasters in Russia

    • V. M. Kotlyakov
    Pages 247-262

  15. Natural Disasters in Europe

    • Lea Houtsonen, Arvo Peltonen
    Pages 263-280

  16. Natural Disasters and Their Impact in Latin America

    • James J. Biles, Daniel Cobos
    Pages 281-302

  17. Disaster Impacts on the Caribbean

    • Jeremy Collymore
    Pages 303-322

  18. A Perspective on North American Natural Disasters

    • Joseph Scanlon
    Pages 323-340

  19. Teaching and Learning to Live with the Environment

    • Kath Murdoch
    Pages 341-358

  20. Educational Aims and the Question of Priorities

    • Graham Haydon
    Pages 359-367
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Reports of natural disasters fill the media with regularity. Places in the world are affected by natural disaster events every day. Such events include earthquakes, cyclones, tsunamis, wildfires – the list could go on for considerable length. In the 1990s there was a concentrated focus on natural disaster information and mitigation during the International Decade for Natural Disasters Reduction (IDNDR). The information was technical and provided the basis for major initiatives in building structures designed for seismic safety, slope stability, severe storm warning systems, and global monitoring and reporting. Mitigation, or planning in the event that natural hazards prevalent in a region would suddenly become natural disasters, was a major goal of the decade-long program. During the IDNDR, this book was conceptualized, and planning for its completion began. The editors saw the need for a book that would reach a broad range of readers who were not actively or directly engaged in natural disasters relief or mitigation planning, but who were in decision-making positions that provided an open window for addressing natural disaster issues. Those people were largely elected public officials, teachers, non-governmental organization staff, and staff of faith-based organizations. Those people, for the most part, come to know very well the human and physical characteristics of the place in which they are based. With that local outreach in mind, the editors intended the book to encourage readers to: 1.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

    John Lidstone

  • Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA

    Lisa M. Dechano, Joseph P. Stoltman

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation