Natural Disasters in a Global Environment. (Record no. 32257)
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| International Standard Book Number | 9781118327531 |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781118252338 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)1347026751 |
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| Classification number | GB5014 .P46 2013 |
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| Classification number | 363.34089999999998 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Penna, Anthony N. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Natural Disasters in a Global Environment. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st ed. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Newark : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2013. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2013. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (362 pages) |
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| Content type term | text |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | New York Academy of Sciences Series |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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). |
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| Formatted contents note | 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. |
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| Formatted contents note | 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. |
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| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE | |
| Source of description note | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. |
| 590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) | |
| Local note | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Environmental disasters-History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Natural disasters-Environmental aspects. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Natural disasters-History. |
| 655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Electronic books. |
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| Relationship information | Print version: |
| Main entry heading | Penna, Anthony N. |
| Title | Natural Disasters in a Global Environment |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2013 |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781118252338 |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | ProQuest (Firm) |
| 830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE | |
| Uniform title | New York Academy of Sciences Series |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=7103537">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=7103537</a> |
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