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A volcano is an opening in the earth's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash and gases to escape from deep bellow the surface. Spewing molten, fluid magmas to escape, volcanic gas eruption pose immense threat to life and properly. Although most volcanoes in the world lie dormant today, there is no complete assurance that the volcanoes cannot erupt in the near future.'Volcano Disaster Management' has been written to serve as a handy ...
Disaster Management is the continuous process by which all individuals, groups and communities manage hazards in an effort to avoid or ameliorate the impact of disasters resulting from the hazards. Actions taken depend in part on perceptions of risk of those exposed. Effective disaster management relies on thorough integration of emergency plans at all levels of government and non-government involvement. Activities at each level affect the other levels. It is ...
The Tsunami triggered a new interest in understanding this phenomenon, which had until now been quite rare. However, there are numerous lessons to be learnt from this catastrophe, especially in Tsunami disaster management. This book is a comprehensive exploitation of a disaster like tsunami and its pre as well as post disaster management. Beginning with an examination of this phenomenon, on what it is and how it works, the book moves on to assess various ...
'Flood Disaster Management' has been written to serve as a valuable guide for effective disaster management in case of flooding events. It provides a schematic of the steps associated with risk assessment and management of floods. For flooding events, there is a need to calculate the probability or likelihood that an extreme event will occur, and to establish and estimate the social, economic and environmental implications should the event occur under existing ...
This book entitled Global Climate Change takes an in-depth look into the issue, furnishing an almost encyclopaedic amount of information on what entails the processes through which functions this phenomenon, what are the repercussions that are bound to happen, and what it means for us today. An overview has been given of the greenhouse gas emissions, which is the main culprit behind the problem. The environmental, health, social and cultural impacts of global ...