Natural Hazards In Australasia

Author : James Goff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316688291
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( 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: Many ideas and concepts about natural hazards have been developed in Australasia, but these are often overlooked in books written from a Northern Hemisphere perspective. Natural Hazards in Australasia is the first textbook that considers Australasian natural hazards, their triggering mechanisms and the physical and social environments in which they occur. James Goff and Chris de Freitas lead an expert author team from around Australia and New Zealand to introduce readers to the natural hazards of the Australasian region, including floods, drought, tropical cyclones, volcanic and seismic hazards, tsunamis, landslides and bushfires. This book explores the interactions not only between one hazard and another, but also between humans and natural hazards. Key pedagogical features for students include learning objectives, regional case studies, summaries, chapter glossaries, end-of-chapter review and discussion questions, and further reading and resources. The full colour text is enhanced by a rich array of illustrations, photographs and maps.

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 : Peter Turner
Publisher : Redback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925860108
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Disasters written by Peter Turner and published by Redback Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-01 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 : 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 : 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?

Author : Richard Whitaker
Publisher : New Holland Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781760792626
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australia's Natural Disasters written by Richard Whitaker and published by New Holland Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the agonies of droughts and floods to the shocks of earthquakes and bush fires, Australia is a country famed as much for its ferocious natural hazards as for its rich environment. Australia's Natural Disasters is a fascinating chronicle of the ferocity of nature and the dramatic effects it has had on this country and its people from the mid-1800s to the seemingly more frequent extreme-weather events of the 2000s. Disasters covered include the bushfires of 2019 and 2020, Cyclone Yasi and Cyclone Tracy, The Black Saturday 2009 Bushfires and the devastation along with the Queensland Floods and the 2021 Floods, the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, the mass rescue at Bondi Beach, Dust Storms of 2009 and the devastating hail storm that struck Sydney's East and much more.

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 : R. L. Heathcote
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Hazards in Australia written by R. L. Heathcote and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. Pickup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Hazards Management in North Australia written by G. Pickup and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Proceedings of and papers arising out of a seminar held by the North Australia Research Unit of the Australian National University, Darwin, 11-14 September 1978.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781921236600
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Hazards in Australia written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: