LIBRARY
Natural Disasters: Home
Natural disasters; Earthquakes; Tsunamis; Hurricanes; Tornadoes; Floods
Human Ancestors Preferred to Live on Shaky Ground
Landscapes and their relation to hominin habitats: Case studies from Australopithecus sites in eastern and southern Africa
Journal of Human Evolution, 2011; 60 (3): 281 DOI:
Earth, Wind & Fire
Earth, wind and fire: A review of the United Nations Refugee Agency's role in recent natural disasters. Bryan Deschamp, Michelle Azorbo, Sebastian Lohse, June 2010
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/search?page=search&docid=4c1228e19&query=China%20floods
Useful Websites
- Centers for Disease ControlEmergency Preparedness and Response
- Global Alert and Disaster Coordination Systemprovides near real-time alerts about natural disasters around the world and tools to facilitate response coordination
- Global Issues on natural disastersArticles.
- Relief Webhumanitarian information and analysis. The Map Centre is a unique resource.
eBooks on Natural Disasters
- At risk: natural hazards, people's vulnerability, and disastersBen Wisner. Routledge, 2004
- Building safer cities: the future of disaster riskAlcira Kreimer, Margaret Arnold, Anne Carli, eds. World Bank, 2003.
- Catastrophe: risk and responseRichard A. Posner. Oxford, 2004
- Homeland security preparedness and information systems: strategies for managing public policyChristopher G. Reddick. IGI Global. 2010
- Humanitarian Logistics : Meeting the Challenge of Preparing for and Responding to DisastersMartin Christopher and Peter Tatham. London: Kogan Page, 2011
- Lifespan perspectives on natural disasters : coping with Katrina, Rita, and other stormsKatie E. Cherry, ed. Springer, 2009
- Natural disasters as interactive components of global-ecodynamicsKirill Y. Kondratyev (and others). Berlin: Springer, 2006
- Understanding the economic and financial impacts of natural disastersCharlotte Benson & Edward J. Clay.
Disaster Risk Management Series; No. 4. World Bank: 2004. - Surviving Armageddon : Solutions for a Threatened PlanetBill McGuire. Oxford U Press, 2007.
Online Resources
- Access ScienceSearch the Encyclopedia for any of the natural disasters by keyword or by "natural disasters."
- OCLC WorldCatSearch the library by disaster name. Springer eBooks are available by subject.
Print Books in the Library
The next catastrophe: reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters by Call Number: HV551.3 .P45 2007ISBN: 0691129975- Environmental disasters, natural recovery and human responses byCall Number: QH545.N3 M67 2007ISBN: 0521677661Cambridge University Press, 2007
- Dangerous world: natural disasters, manmade catastrophes, and the future of human survival byCall Number: GB5014 .D48 2008ISBN: 0670065684Viking/Penguin, 2008
- Handbook of international disaster psychology byCall Number: RC451.4.D57 H36 2006ISBN: 0275983153v. 1. Fundamentals and overview -- v. 2. Practices and programs -- v. 3. Refugee mental health -- v. 4. Interventions with special needs populations.
- Catastrophe in the making: the engineering of Katrina and the disasters of tomorrow byCall Number: HV636 2005.N4 C38 2009ISBN: 1597266825
- Managing risk in extreme environments: front-line business lessons for corporates and financial institutions byCall Number: HD61 .M28 2008ISBN: 0749449454
