LIBRARY
Natural Disasters: Fire and Flood
Natural disasters; Earthquakes; Tsunamis; Hurricanes; Tornadoes; Floods
Mississippi River May, 2011
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=50690&src=nhrss
National Weather Service. Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service. Accessed May 23, 2011.
NASA images courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
Floods in Australia January, 2011
The deluge delivered the highest total January rainfall on record to some areas.
Interesting Web Links
- Reuters AlertNetChina Floods 2008
- UN High Commission for RefugeesFloods in Pakistan
- Is Global Warming Causing More, Larger Wildfires?Stephen W. Running. Published Online July 6 2006
Science 18 August 2006: Vol. 313 no. 5789 pp. 927-928
DOI: 10.1126/science.1130370
eBooks
Natural disasters: floods : a reference handbook by ISBN: 1576072894- Flood risk management: hazards, vulnerability and mitigation measures byISBN: 1402045980"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Flood Risk Management: Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures, Ostrov, Czech Republic, 6-10 October 2004."
- Flood warning, forecasting and emergency response byISBN: 3540778535
- Floods: Physical processes and human impacts byISBN: 0585213992
Flames in our forest: disaster or renewal? by ISBN: 1559638826
Print Books
Fire in the Forest by Call Number: SD421 .T49 2010ISBN: 0521822297Publication Date: Cambridge U Press, 2010
Wildfires in Greece
- Greece -- Firestormwildfire on Samos Island, in eastern Greece, August 2, 2010.
Photograph: Milos Bicanski/Getty Images