Australias Natural Disasters

Author : Scott McKinnon
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811543828
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disasters in Australia and New Zealand written by Scott McKinnon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disasters in Australia and New Zealand brings together a collection of essays on the history of disasters in both countries. Leading experts provide a timely interrogation of long-held assumptions about the impacts of bushfires, floods, cyclones and earthquakes, exploring the blurred line between nature and culture, asking what are the anthropogenic causes of ‘natural’ disasters? How have disasters been remembered or forgotten? And how have societies over generations responded to or understood disaster? As climate change escalates disaster risk in Australia, New Zealand and around the world, these questions have assumed greater urgency. This unique collection poses a challenge to learn from past experiences and to implement behavioural and policy change. Rich in oral history and archival research, Disasters in Australia and New Zealand offers practical and illuminating insights that will appeal to historians and disaster scholars across multiple disciplines.

Author : Peter Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781925860283
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Disasters written by Peter Turner and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is currently facing several significant environmental issues. In Australia, the natural disasters that play an unpredictable part in all our lives are drought, fires, tropical cyclones, floods and, to a lesser extent, earthquakes. Each of these disasters affect us all, either directly or indirectly. Natural disasters explores the impact that these events have had on Australia. Features of this book include: informative and comprehensive text with photographs; labelled diagrams relevant to the text; fact boxes to highlight interesting information; and a resource list for further information.

Author : Anna Lukasiewicz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811504660
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Hazards and Disaster Justice written by Anna Lukasiewicz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia. It reveals geographic locational and social disadvantage and structural inequities that lead to increased risk and vulnerability to disaster, and which impact ability to recover post-disaster. Written by multidisciplinary disaster researchers, the book addresses all stages of the disaster management cycle, demonstrating or recommending just approaches to preparation, response and recovery. It notably reveals how procedural, distributional and interactional aspects of justice enhance resilience, and offers a cutting edge analysis of disaster justice for managers, policy makers, researchers in justice, climate change or emergency management.

Author : John Miller
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458785165
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia's Greatest Disasters written by John Miller and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disasters have always occurred in Australia, even before European settlement began in 1788. Such is the geography and climate of the 'Great South Land' that disasters such as bushfires, cyclones, storms, floods, drought and heat waves are natural phenomena. They also tend to be seasonal and can be successive; bushfires follow periods of drought ...

Author : Richard Whitaker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781877069383
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia's Natural Disasters written by Richard Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyclone Tracy is only one of the many extreme weather events that Australia has suffered. Australia's Natural Disasters tells many stories of the devestation that nature has wreaked on our wild country. From the agonies of droughts and floods to the shocks of earthquakes and bushfires, Australia is a country famed as much for its ferocious natural hazards as for its rich environment. Freak weather has caused plane crashes and shipwrecks and even been blamed for the disappearance of a Prime Minister. All this illustrated by on-the-spot photos of Australia's natural disasters and their consequences.

Author : James Goff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107682592
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Hazards in Australasia written by James Goff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A textbook designed for students taking a course in natural hazards with an Australasian focus and context. In full colour and richly supported by photographs, illustrations and maps.

Author : Kathryn Gow
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781604561616
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Phoenix of Natural Disasters written by Kathryn Gow and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book encompasses discussions between Kathryn Gow and Douglas Paton, both psychologists who have researched stress, burnout, trauma, and recovery in natural disasters. They suggest that few books have been written for health professionals, and persons directly involved with leading and managing emergency teams on what constitutes resilience in individuals and groups in communities, and how they differ in response and recovery. The outcome is a three part book with contributors from the field, research institutions, emergency service sectors, support agencies and the media. Its main purpose is to focus on the resilience of people and communities following NDs and to educate the sectors already involved in natural disasters.

Author : Jane Hinchey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922322005
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Disasters In Australia written by Jane Hinchey and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Australia, the natural disasters that play an unpredictable part in all our lives are drought, fires, tropical cyclones, floods and, to a lesser extent, earthquakes. Each of these disasters affects us all, either directly or indirectly. This book explores the impact that these events have had on Australia. Features include: informative and comprehensive text with photographs; fact boxes; glossary; index; and timelines.

Author : Linda C. Botterill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402031236
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Disaster Response to Risk Management written by Linda C. Botterill and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-02-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An academically focused collection of papers highlighting the successes and challenges of a move from disaster to risk management in responding to drought. The book passes on the experiences gained from Australia’s trail-blazing new policy, introduced in 1992.

Author : Justin Healey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922274441
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coping with Natural Disasters written by Justin Healey and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia’s variable climate, geography and environment frequently places communities, infrastructure, ecosystems and cultural and heritage sites in the path of natural hazard events. Natural hazards are driven primarily by weather and geology. Weather-driven natural hazards include bushfires, floods, heatwaves, cyclones, landslides and thunderstorms, while geological-driven hazards include earthquakes and tsunami. The major bushfires and floods of the past two years have demonstrated how increasingly exposed the nation is to natural hazards, causing distressing loss of life and property, and devastating the environment. A recent royal commission has exposed gaping holes in Australia’s readiness for natural disasters. How should we better prepare for natural hazards and mitigate their impacts from becoming disasters; and how can we cope during and after they have occurred? What could we do at a government, emergency services, community and personal level to protect ourselves, develop resilience, and recover from the next major natural disaster?