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Perils of a Restless Planet
Author | : Ernest Zebrowski |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0521654882 |
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From epidemics and earthquakes to tornadoes and tidal waves, the overwhelming power of Nature never ceases to instil humankind with both terror and awe. As natural disasters continue to claim human lives and wreak havoc in their wake, Perils of a Restless Planet examines our attempts to understand and anticipate such phenomena. Drawing upon case studies from ancient to present times, this book focuses on scientific inquiry, technological innovation and public policy to provide a lucid and riveting look at natural disasters. While shedding light on the elusive quality of Nature and the limits scientific study and laboratory replication impose on our understanding of her mercurial ways, the author extrapolates from the history of science to suggest how we may someday learn to warn and protect vulnerable populations on our small and tempestuous planet. Anyone interested in the power of Nature will find this book compelling and informative.
Perils of a Restless Planet
Author | : Ernest Zebrowski |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:819681517 |
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Restless Planet
Author | : Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers,Maslin,Jennifer L Durham,Bunce |
Publsiher | : Heinemann Library |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999-02 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0739813315 |
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Nature's more violent outbursts are explored through this exciting four-book series that examines natural disasters, where they strike, and the damage they cause. The nature of our restless Earth unfolds through colorful diagrams, simplifying the science of volcanoes, earthquakes, floods, and storms. Fact boxes highlight famous disasters throughout history.
Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean 1624 1783
Author | : Matthew Mulcahy |
Publsiher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2008-08-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780801898976 |
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Hurricanes created unique challenges for the colonists in the British Greater Caribbean during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These storms were entirely new to European settlers and quickly became the most feared part of their physical environment, destroying staple crops and provisions, leveling plantations and towns, disrupting shipping and trade, and resulting in major economic losses for planters and widespread privation for slaves. In this study, Matthew Mulcahy examines how colonists made sense of hurricanes, how they recovered from them, and the role of the storms in shaping the development of the region's colonial settlements. Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783 provides a useful new perspective on several topics including colonial science, the plantation economy, slavery, and public and private charity. By integrating the West Indies into the larger story of British Atlantic colonization, Mulcahy's work contributes to early American history, Atlantic history, environmental history, and the growing field of disaster studies.
Earth Watch
Author | : Jean H. Shepard,Daniel Shepard |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015008706205 |
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Droughts
Author | : Michael Woods,Mary B. Woods |
Publsiher | : Lerner Publications |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2006-12-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780822565765 |
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Explains what droughts are and what causes them, provides the history of droughts around the world, and describes how scientists study them and what can be done to relieve or prevent them.
The Fossil Fuelled Climate Crisis
Author | : Raymond Murphy |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2020-09-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9783030533250 |
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This book analyses the threat posed by the continued use of fossil fuels. By utilizing Elizabeth Shove’s social practices approach and Murphy’s own social closure framework, the book examines the accelerating treadmill of carbon-polluting practices. It incorporates externalities theory to investigate how the full cost of fossil fuels is paid by others rather than users, and to demonstrate that the environmental commons is a medium for conveying intergenerational monopolisation and exclusion in the Anthropocene. Murphy uncovers a pattern of opposition to change when exploiting valuable but dangerous resources. He argues that a new faith in mastering nature is emerging as a belief in just-in-time technological solutions to circumvent having to change fossil-fuelled practices. The book then moves on to assess proposed solutions, including Beck’s staging of risk and his hypothesis that the anticipation of global catastrophe will incite emancipation. It proposes a novel approach to enhancing foresight and avoid incubating disaster. It will appeal to readers interested in an original social science analysis of this creeping crisis and its resolution.