Natural Disasters in a Global Environment.
Penna, Anthony N.
Natural Disasters in a Global Environment. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (362 pages) - New York Academy of Sciences Series . - New York Academy of Sciences Series .
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 -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Bangladesh Floods (1997-98) -- Introduction -- Geology/geography -- The floods -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6: Landslides -- Introduction -- The Turtle Mountain Landslide, Canada (1903) -- Introduction -- The rockslide -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Aberfan Landslide, Wales (1966) -- Introduction -- The slide -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Ancash Earthquake and Landslide, Peru (1970) -- Geology and snowpack -- Previous landslides -- The avalanche and rockslide -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Southern Leyte Landslide, the Philippines (2006) -- Introduction -- The landslide -- Relief efforts -- Relief efforts. Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7: Pandemic Diseases -- Introduction -- The Bubonic Plague (1347-51 and After) -- The Justinian Plague (540-547 CE) -- Conclusion -- The Black Death (1347-51 CE) -- Conclusion -- The Great Influenza Pandemic (1918-20) -- Introduction -- The pandemic's origins -- The pandemic -- The influenza's etiology -- Relief efforts -- Conclusion -- HIV/AIDS (1985-) -- Introduction -- The question of origins - competing theories -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8: Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons* -- Introduction -- The Labor Day Hurricane in the Florida Keys (1935) -- Introduction -- Background -- The hurricane -- Government response -- Conclusion -- The Bhola Cyclone (1970) -- The cyclone -- The government response -- Conclusion -- Super-Typhoon Nina (1975) -- Introduction -- Government response -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 9: Famines and Droughts -- Introduction -- The Irish Potato Famine (1845-51) -- Introduction -- Background to the famine -- The famine -- Relief efforts -- Conclusion -- The "Dust Bowl" Drought in the American West (1930-40) -- Introduction -- Background -- The conditions that created the Dust Bowl -- The dust storms -- Government response -- Conclusion -- The Great Leap Forward Chinese Famine (1958-61) -- Introduction -- The Great Leap Forward -- The famine -- Government response -- Relief efforts -- The cultural revolution -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10: Meteorite Impacts -- Introduction -- The Creation of Earth's Moon and the Origins of Meteorites -- The Yucatán Chicxulub Crater, Mexico (65 MYA) -- Introduction -- Tracing the evidence -- Conclusion -- The Clovis Extinction (12,500-12,900 BP) -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- The Tunguska (Siberia) Event (1908) -- Introduction. Size, type, and impact -- Conclusion -- Investigating Future Impacts -- Introduction -- 1997 FX11 -- 2002 NT7 -- 2003 QQ47 -- 99942 Apophis -- 2012 DA14 -- Quantifying the risk -- Preventing a global catastrophe -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Epilogue -- Index.
9781118327531
Environmental disasters-History.
Natural disasters-Environmental aspects.
Natural disasters-History.
Electronic books.
GB5014 .P46 2013
363.34089999999998
Natural Disasters in a Global Environment. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (362 pages) - New York Academy of Sciences Series . - New York Academy of Sciences Series .
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 -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Bangladesh Floods (1997-98) -- Introduction -- Geology/geography -- The floods -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6: Landslides -- Introduction -- The Turtle Mountain Landslide, Canada (1903) -- Introduction -- The rockslide -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Aberfan Landslide, Wales (1966) -- Introduction -- The slide -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Ancash Earthquake and Landslide, Peru (1970) -- Geology and snowpack -- Previous landslides -- The avalanche and rockslide -- Relief efforts -- Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- The Southern Leyte Landslide, the Philippines (2006) -- Introduction -- The landslide -- Relief efforts -- Relief efforts. Rebuilding -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7: Pandemic Diseases -- Introduction -- The Bubonic Plague (1347-51 and After) -- The Justinian Plague (540-547 CE) -- Conclusion -- The Black Death (1347-51 CE) -- Conclusion -- The Great Influenza Pandemic (1918-20) -- Introduction -- The pandemic's origins -- The pandemic -- The influenza's etiology -- Relief efforts -- Conclusion -- HIV/AIDS (1985-) -- Introduction -- The question of origins - competing theories -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8: Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons* -- Introduction -- The Labor Day Hurricane in the Florida Keys (1935) -- Introduction -- Background -- The hurricane -- Government response -- Conclusion -- The Bhola Cyclone (1970) -- The cyclone -- The government response -- Conclusion -- Super-Typhoon Nina (1975) -- Introduction -- Government response -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 9: Famines and Droughts -- Introduction -- The Irish Potato Famine (1845-51) -- Introduction -- Background to the famine -- The famine -- Relief efforts -- Conclusion -- The "Dust Bowl" Drought in the American West (1930-40) -- Introduction -- Background -- The conditions that created the Dust Bowl -- The dust storms -- Government response -- Conclusion -- The Great Leap Forward Chinese Famine (1958-61) -- Introduction -- The Great Leap Forward -- The famine -- Government response -- Relief efforts -- The cultural revolution -- Conclusion -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Chapter 10: Meteorite Impacts -- Introduction -- The Creation of Earth's Moon and the Origins of Meteorites -- The Yucatán Chicxulub Crater, Mexico (65 MYA) -- Introduction -- Tracing the evidence -- Conclusion -- The Clovis Extinction (12,500-12,900 BP) -- Introduction -- Conclusion -- The Tunguska (Siberia) Event (1908) -- Introduction. Size, type, and impact -- Conclusion -- Investigating Future Impacts -- Introduction -- 1997 FX11 -- 2002 NT7 -- 2003 QQ47 -- 99942 Apophis -- 2012 DA14 -- Quantifying the risk -- Preventing a global catastrophe -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Epilogue -- Index.
9781118327531
Environmental disasters-History.
Natural disasters-Environmental aspects.
Natural disasters-History.
Electronic books.
GB5014 .P46 2013
363.34089999999998