International perspectives on natural disasters: occurrence, mitigation, and consequences [Libro electrónico] / edited by Joseph P. Stoltman, John Lidstone, Lisa M. Dechano

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Chapter 1: Earthquakes.. Walter Hays.. Chapter 2: Volcanoes.. Raymundo S. Punongbayan.. Chapter 3: Windstorms.. Tony Gibbs.. Chapter 4: Global flooding.. John Handmer.. Chapter 5: Wildfires.. Steven Yool.. Chapter 6: Mass movement.. isa M. DeChano.. Chapter 7: Drought.. D.A. Wilhite.. Chapter 8: Natural hazards in Japan.. Hiroshi Sasaki and Shuji Yamakawa.. Chapter 9: Natural disasters in China.. Yang Hua Ting.. Chapter 10: Natural disasters in Oceania.. George Pararas-Carayannis.. Chapter 11: Hazard mitigation in south and southeast Asia.. Nehal Karim.. Chapter 12: Natural disasters in Africa.. Belinda Dodson.. Chapter 13: Natural disasters in Russia.. V.M. Kotlyakov.. Chapter 14: Natural disasters in Europe.. Lea Houtsonen and Arvo Peltonen.. Chapter 15: Natural disasters and their impact in Latin America.. James J. Biles and Daniel Cobos.. Chapter 16: Disaster impacts on the Caribbean.. Jeremy Collymore.. Chapter 17: A perspective on north American natural disasters.. Joseph Scanlon.. Chapter 18: Teaching and learning to live with the environment.. Kath Murdoch.. Chapter 19: Educational aims and the question of priorities.. Graham Haydon.. Chapter 20: The experience of natural disasters: psychological perspectives and understandings.. Joseph P. Reser.. Chapter 21: Curriculum innovation for natural disaster reduction: lessons from the commonwealth Caribbean.. Michael Morrissey.. Chapter 22: Curriculum adaptation and disaster prevention in Colombia.. Omar D. Cardona.. Chapter 23: Current curriculum initiatives and perspectives in education for natural disaster reduction in India.. R.B. Singh.. Chapter 24: Disaster education in New Zealand.. John Macaulay.. Chapter 25: Natural disasters and the role of women.. Jacqueline Sims.. Chapter 26: Natural hazards and disaster information on the internet.. John A. Cross and Yasuyo Makido..

Chapter 27: Capacity building, education, and technical training.. Joseph P. Stoltman, John Lidstone, and Lisa M. DeChano.. Index

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Reports of natural disasters fill the media with regularity. Places in the world are affected by natural disaster events every day. Such events include earthquakes, cyclones, tsunamis, wildfires - the list could go on for considerable length. In the 1990s there was a concentrated focus on natural disaster information and mitigation during the International Decade for Natural Disasters Reduction (IDNDR). The information was technical and provided the basis for major initiatives in building structures designed for seismic safety, slope stability, severe storm warning systems, and global monitoring and reporting. Mitigation, or planning in the event that natural hazards prevalent in a region would suddenly become natural disasters, was a major goal of the decade-long program. During the IDNDR, this book was conceptualized, and planning for its completion began. The editors saw the need for a book that would reach a broad range of readers who were not actively or directly engaged in natural disasters relief or mitigation planning, but who were in decision-making positions that provided an open window for addressing natural disaster issues. Those people were largely elected public officials, teachers, non-governmental organization staff, and staff of faith-based organizations. Those people, for the most part, come to know very well the human and physical characteristics of the place in which they are based. eng

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