{"product_id":"natural-disasters-in-a-global-environment-isbn-9781118252345","title":"Natural Disasters in a Global Environment","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNatural Disasters in a Global Environment\u003c\/i\u003e is a transnational, global and environmental history of natural and man-made disasters. Detailed case studies of past and present events are presented in a historical narrative, making use of the most recent scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines a range of disasters including volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, landslides, hurricanes, famines, and more\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights the role of science in studying natural disasters and describes the mechanisms responsible for them\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures a range of case studies which can be used in conjunction with one another or as standalone examples\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers scientific material in a lucid and accessible style suited to  undergraduate students or those outside of scientific disciplines\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eTraces the transition of our understanding of disasters, from religious and superstitious explanations to contemporary scientific accounts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of figures x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 1 INTERNAL PROCESSES 11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Supervolcanoes 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mt. Toba Eruption (73,000 BP) 15\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Thera (Santorini) Eruption in the Aegean Sea (1600 BCE) 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMt. Tambora (1815) and Krakatau (1883) 25\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Mt. Pinatubo Eruption (1991) 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Threatening Future Scenario 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Earthquakes 38\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe San Francisco Earthquake (1906) 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Great Kanto Earthquake (1923) 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Haitian Earthquake (2010) 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Tsunamis 71\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLisbon, Portugal: The Quadruple Disaster (1755) 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Lituya Bay Mega-Tsunami (1958) 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sumatra–Andaman Earthquake (2004) 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tôhoku (Japan) Tsunami (2011) 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 2 SURFICIAL PROCESSES 105\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Fire 107\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Burning of Rome (68 CE) 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Great Fire of London (1666) 112\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Chicago and Peshtigo Fires (1871) 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 133\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Floods 136\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 136\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCentral China Floods (1931) 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Dutch Flood Disaster (1953) 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bangladesh Floods (1997–98) 149\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Landslides 162\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Turtle Mountain Landslide, Canada (1903) 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Aberfan Landslide, Wales (1966) 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ancash Earthquake and Landslide, Peru (1970) 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Southern Leyte Landslide, the Philippines (2006) 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 183\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 184\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Pandemic Diseases 189\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bubonic Plague (1347–51 and After) 190\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Great Infl uenza Pandemic (1918–20) 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHIV\/AIDS (1985–) 210\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 221\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART 3 ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES 223\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons 225\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 225\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Labor Day Hurricane in the Florida Keys (1935) 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bhola Cyclone (1970) 236\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuper-Typhoon Nina (1975) 244\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Famines and Droughts 253\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 253\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Irish Potato Famine (1845–51) 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe “Dust Bowl” Drought in the American West (1930–40) 262\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Great Leap Forward Chinese Famine (1958–61) 271\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 281\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Meteorite Impacts 287\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Creation of Earth’s Moon and the Origins of Meteorites 289\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Yucatán Chicxulub Crater, Mexico (65 MYA) 290\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Clovis Extinction (12,500–12,900 BP) 295\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Tunguska (Siberia) Event (1908) 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInvestigating Future Impacts 301\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummary 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 308\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading 311\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue 313\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-divison undergraduates through professionals; general readers.\" - CHOICE, November 2013\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eAnthony N. Penna\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus at Northeastern University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eNature’s Bounty: Historical and Modern Environmental Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), Remaking \u003ci\u003eBoston: An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings\u003c\/i\u003e (co-edited with Conrad Edick Wright, 2009), and \u003ci\u003eThe Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJennifer S. Rivers\u003c\/b\u003e 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.  \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003e. . .\u003c\/i\u003e Penna and Rivers couple delightful exposition, insightful comparative images, and historical anecdotes that together produce some of the finest science writing I've seen. This book not only could be an outstanding text for a course on the subject, but it also would be a fine read for anyone interested in how the earth ‘works.’” - \u003ci\u003eDonald Siegel, Syracuse University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e“This is an impressive collection, wide ranging in time, place and discipline. The result stimulates new thinking both about history and about the ongoing role of catastrophe in the course of human society -- altogether, an imaginative venture.” - \u003ci\u003ePeter Stearns, George Mason University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Eco-anxiety sometimes makes us exaggerate our power over nature for good and ill. In an important, welcome and riveting collaboration between history and science, Penna and Rivers unfold a minatory drama of disasters – seismic, climatic, pandemic, atmospheric, meteoric – that humans can barely influence, let alone control.” - \u003ci\u003eFelipe Fernandez-Armesto, University of Notre Dame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This skillful record of natural disaster—in climate, epidemics, and earth tremors—shows how society risks further disaster even in planning for safety.” - \u003ci\u003ePatrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e “. . . [A]n indispensable introduction for everyone who wants to understand human response to disaster—scientists, disaster planners, historians, and policy-makers, students and senior researchers.” - \u003ci\u003eConevery Bolton Valencius, University of Massachusetts Boston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eNatural Disasters in a Global Environment\u003c\/i\u003e 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.   \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNatural Disasters in a Global Environment\u003c\/i\u003e serves as a much-needed respite from the glossy hyper-produced texts on environmental geology and natural disasters so prevalent today. Instead, Penna and Rivers couple delightful exposition, insightful comparative images, and historical anecdotes that together produce some of the finest science writing I've seen. This book not only could be an outstanding text for a course on the subject, but it also would be a fine read for anyone interested in how the earth ‘works.’” - \u003ci\u003eDonald Siegel, Syracuse University\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e“This is an impressive collection, wide ranging in time, place and discipline. The result stimulates new thinking both about history and about the ongoing role of catastrophe in the course of human society -- altogether, an imaginative venture.” - \u003ci\u003ePeter Stearns, George Mason University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Eco-anxiety sometimes makes us exaggerate our power over nature for good and ill. In an important, welcome and riveting collaboration between history and science, Penna and Rivers unfold a minatory drama of disasters – seismic, climatic, pandemic, atmospheric, meteoric – that humans can barely influence, let alone control.” - \u003ci\u003eFelipe Fernandez-Armesto, University of Notre Dame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“This skillful record of natural disaster—in climate, epidemics, and earth tremors—shows how society risks further disaster even in planning for safety.” - \u003ci\u003ePatrick Manning, University of Pittsburgh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Appealing to both students of history and science, this study of natural hazards and vulnerable populations provides an enthralling guide to how disasters have altered the course of human history.” - \u003ci\u003eGreg Bankoff, University of Hull\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Interdisciplinary in methods and reach, \u003ci\u003eNatural Disasters in a Global Environment\u003c\/i\u003e surveys big ideas in concise and accessible form.  This book is an indispensable introduction for everyone who wants to understand human response to disaster—scientists, disaster planners, historians, and policy-makers, students and senior researchers.” - \u003ci\u003eConevery Bolton Valencius, University of Massachusetts Boston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989676277989,"sku":"NP9781118252345","price":101.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118252345.jpg?v=1761785063","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/natural-disasters-in-a-global-environment-isbn-9781118252345","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}