Natural Disasters in a Global Environment
Autor Anthony N Penna, Jennifer S Riversen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 apr 2013
- Examines a range of disasters including volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, landslides, hurricanes, famines, and more
- Highlights the role of science in studying natural disasters and describes the mechanisms responsible for them
- Features a range of case studies which can be used in conjunction with one another or as standalone examples
- Covers scientific material in a lucid and accessible style suited to undergraduate students or those outside of scientific disciplines
- Traces the transition of our understanding of disasters, from religious and superstitious explanations to contemporary scientific accounts
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1118252330
Pagini: 360
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States
Public țintă
College undergraduates with interest in environmental studies, global and world history, environmental historyDescriere
Natural Disasters in a Global Environment is a trans–national, global and environmental history of natural and man–made disasters. In order to provide students with the clearest and most powerful accounts of each disaster, the authors employ detailed case studies of past and present events; each case study is written as a historical narrative while making use of the most recent scholarship surrounding these cases. Personal narratives, which appear throughout the text, fully engage students in an appreciation of the complexity – and devastation – of these events.
The text also traces human responses to these occurrences and the historical transition from natural disasters being viewed as acts of a vengeful God to contemporary scientific explanations describing these events as a collection of scientific phenomena resulting from natural forces. This book takes the unique approach of highlighting the role of science and describes the mechanisms responsible for these disasters in lucid and accessible terms in order to provide a better understanding of why they occur.
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Natural Disasters in a Global Environment is a trans–national, global and environmental history of natural and man–made disasters. In order to provide students with the clearest and most powerful accounts of each disaster, the authors employ detailed case studies of past and present events; each case study is written as a historical narrative while making use of the most recent scholarship surrounding these cases. Personal narratives, which appear throughout the text, fully engage students in an appreciation of the complexity – and devastation – of these events.
The text also traces human responses to these occurrences and the historical transition from natural disasters being viewed as acts of a vengeful God to contemporary scientific explanations describing these events as a collection of scientific phenomena resulting from natural forces. This book takes the unique approach of highlighting the role of science and describes the mechanisms responsible for these disasters in lucid and accessible terms in order to provide a better understanding of why they occur.
Cuprins
List of figures x
Preface xii
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction 1
PART 1 INTERNAL PROCESSES 11
1 Supervolcanoes 13
Introduction 13
The Mt. Toba Eruption (73,000 BP) 15
The Thera (Santorini) Eruption in the Aegean Sea (1600 BCE) 20
Mt. Tambora (1815) and Krakatau (1883) 25
The Mt. Pinatubo Eruption (1991) 28
A Threatening Future Scenario 32
Summary 33
Notes 35
Further Reading 37
2 Earthquakes 38
Introduction 38
The San Francisco Earthquake (1906) 39
The Great Kanto Earthquake (1923) 48
The Haitian Earthquake (2010) 56
Summary 66
Notes 68
3 Tsunamis 71
Introduction 71
Lisbon, Portugal: The Quadruple Disaster (1755) 72
The Lituya Bay Mega–Tsunami (1958) 79
The Sumatra Andaman Earthquake (2004) 83
The Tôhoku (Japan) Tsunami (2011) 89
Summary 97
Notes 98
Further Reading 104
PART 2 SURFICIAL PROCESSES 105
4 Fire 107
Introduction 107
The Burning of Rome (68 CE) 108
The Great Fire of London (1666) 112
The Chicago and Peshtigo Fires (1871) 120
Summary 132
Notes 133
Further Reading 135
5 Floods 136
Introduction 136
Central China Floods (1931) 137
The Dutch Flood Disaster (1953) 144
The Bangladesh Floods (1997 98) 149
Summary 154
Notes 156
Further Reading 160
6 Landslides 162
Introduction 162
The Turtle Mountain Landslide, Canada (1903) 163
The Aberfan Landslide, Wales (1966) 167
The Ancash Earthquake and Landslide, Peru (1970) 171
The Southern Leyte Landslide, the Philippines (2006) 177
Summary 183
Notes 184
Further Reading 187
7 Pandemic Diseases 189
Introduction 189
The Bubonic Plague (1347 51 and After) 190
The Great Infl uenza Pandemic (1918 20) 200
HIV/AIDS (1985 ) 210
Summary 216
Notes 219
Further Reading 221
PART 3 ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES 223
8 Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons 225
Introduction 225
The Labor Day Hurricane in the Florida Keys (1935) 227
The Bhola Cyclone (1970) 236
Super–Typhoon Nina (1975) 244
Summary 250
Notes 250
Further Reading 252
9 Famines and Droughts 253
Introduction 253
The Irish Potato Famine (1845 51) 254
The Dust Bowl Drought in the American West (1930 40) 262
The Great Leap Forward Chinese Famine (1958 61) 271
Summary 281
Notes 282
Further Reading 285
10 Meteorite Impacts 287
Introduction 287
The Creation of Earth s Moon and the Origins of Meteorites 289
The Yucatán Chicxulub Crater, Mexico (65 MYA) 290
The Clovis Extinction (12,500 12,900 BP) 295
The Tunguska (Siberia) Event (1908) 298
Investigating Future Impacts 301
Summary 307
Notes 308
Further Reading 311
Epilogue 313
Index 319
Recenzii
Notă biografică
Anthony N. Penna is Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University. He is the author of Nature s Bounty: Historical and Modern Environmental Perspectives (1999), Remaking Boston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings (co–edited with Conrad Edick Wright, 2009), and The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History (Wiley–Blackwell, 2009).
Jennifer S. Rivers is Professor and Director of the Environmental Studies program at Northeastern University. She holds a PhD from Syracuse University in Earth Science and has over thirty published articles in the field of Environmental Science.