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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN : LOC:00017285816
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Sphinx Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN : UOM:39076002684541
Author : Pierre Verluise
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0814325270
"On December 7, 1988, the northwest region of Soviet Armenia, including Leninakan, the republic's second largest city, was devastated by an earthquake which left tens of thousands dead and forced the central government, for the first time in Soviet history, to call for international assistance." "Armenia in Crisis documents the tragic Armenian earthquake and the surrounding political controversies that rocked the Soviet Union and contributed to its collapse. In sparse and gripping prose, Pierre Verluise, a French journalist and Soviet specialist, uses the accounts of survivors and relief workers to tell the story of this catastrophe in its human and political dimensions. Relying on personal interviews and press reports, he recounts the destruction and despair, the emotional reactions of survivors and relief workers, the political struggles between Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and the Armenians, and the shortcomings in Soviet construction methods and disaster preparedness." "The new epilogue by translator Levon Chorbajian completes Verluise's story of human loss and high political drama, with updates of Armenia's independence, the Soviet Union's demise, and the still uncompleted task of earthquake reconstruction."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Christopher Engholm
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Armenia (Republic)
ISBN : UOM:39076002699937
Describes the Armenian earthquake of 1988 and its historical, political, and cultural aspects.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN : PSU:000014972508
Author : EQE Engineering Consultants
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Buildings
ISBN : UOM:39015041782981
Author : Serguei Balassanian,Armando Cisternas,Mikael Melkumyan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401595445
In 1998 Armenia was commemorating the tenth anniversary of the catastrophic Spitak earthquake. The Second International Conference on "Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction" sponsored by the Government of the Republic of Armenia and United Nation's International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (UN/IDNDR) was held in dedication to that event between 14-21 September (later referred to as Yerevan Conference). The Yerevan Conference has been organized by the National Survey for Seismic Protection (NSSP) of the Republic of Armenia. All level's decision-makers (from the ministers to the local authorities), politicians, scientists, leaders of the executive and legislative powers, psychologists, leading businessmen, representatives from the private sector and the media as well as from the International Organizations have been invited by the Armenian NSSP to take part in joint discussion of the Seismic Risk Reduction Problem for the first time in the history of such forums. Armenian NSSP's such initiative has been triggered by the experience of the Spitak earthquake and other disasters. They showed that it will be possible to reduce the risks, posed by the natural disaster, only through the common efforts of all the community in co-operation with the International institutions.
Author : Dennis Mileti,Colleen Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000301977
This book portrays the history, causes and future of large earthquakes in the US and traces the evolution of government policy to deal with it. It reviews the range of human actions that can be taken to manage or lessen quake losses and presents a review of the current technology to predict quakes.
Author : David D. Caron,Michael J. Kelly,Anastasia Telesetsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107061316
This edited volume brings together experts, emerging scholars, and practitioners in the field of international disaster law from North America, Japan, New Zealand, and Australia to analyze the evolution of international disaster law as a field that encompasses new ideas about human rights, sovereignty, and technology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UIUC:30112063914185
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Government publications
ISBN : WISC:89016843757
Author : Rajesh Arora,Preeti Arora
Publisher : CABI
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781845939298
Disaster management is an increasingly important subject, as effective management of both natural and manmade disasters is essential to save lives and minimize casualties. This book discusses the best practice for vital elements of disaster medicine in both developed and developing countries, including planning and preparedness of hospitals, emergency medical services, communication and IT tools for medical disaster response and psychosocial issues. It also covers the use of state-of the-art training tools, with a full section on post-disaster relief, rehabilitation and recovery.
Author : Eric K. Noji
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-11-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199880003
Natural and man-made disasters--earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, industrial crises, and many others--have claimed more than 3 million lives during the past 20 years, adversely affected the lives of at least 800 million people, and caused more than 50 billion dollars in property damages. A major disaster occurs almost daily in some part of the world. Increasing population densities in flood plains, along vulnerable coastal areas, and near dangerous faults in the earth's crust, as well as the rapid industrialization of developing economies are factors likely to make the threat posed by natural disasters much bigger in the future. Illustrated with examples from recent research in the field, this book summarizes the most pertinent and useful information about the public health impact of natural and man-made disasters. It is divided into four sections dealing with general concerns, geophysical events, weather-related problems, and human-generated disasters. The author starts with a comprehensive discussion of the concepts and role of surveillance and epidemiology, highlighting general environmental health concerns, such as sanitation, water, shelter, and sewage. The other chapters, based on a variety of experiences and literature drawn from both developing and industrialized countries, cover discrete types of natural and technological hazards, addressing their history, origin, nature, observation, and control. Throughout the book the focus is on the level of epidemiologic knowledge on each aspect of natural and man-made disasters. Exposure-, disease-, and health-event surveillance are stressed because of the importance of objective data to disaster epidemiology. In addition, Noji pays particular attention to prevention and control measures, and provides practical recommendations in areas in which the public health practitioner needs more useful information. He advocates stronger epidemiologic awareness as the basis for better understanding and control of disasters. A comprehensive theoretical and practical treatment of the subject, The Public Health Consequences of Disasters is an invaluable tool for epidemiologists, disaster relief specialists, and physicians who treat disaster victims.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Earthquake engineering
ISBN : PSU:000031193252
Author : Angus M. Gunn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313087479
Disasters can strike at any time. From the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius to Hurricane Katrina, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters have caused tremendous loss of life, human suffering, and environmental catastrophe. The complex technological and social changes of the last few centuries have not only intensified the impact of such natural disasters, but have added new introduced new reasons to be concerned - plane crashes, bombings, industrial accidents, genocides. Calling some disasters natural and others man-made downplays the important interrelationship between the event and human actions. Human actions - or inactions - can catapult a natural phenomenon into a deadly catastrophe. Likewise, nature can be terribly disrupted by events that are created by humans. Encyclopedia of Disasters covers over 180 of the most important disasters in history. Arranged chronologically, the encyclopedia includes entries on those disasters that have had the greatest historical, environmental, and cultural impact: The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum; the London Fire of 1666, which flattened much of London and allowed the rebuilding of the city; the influenza epidemic of 1918, which killed millions; the 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake in Alaska, which caused death and destruction as far away as Hawaii; the worst nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1964, that has rendered the surrounding landscape uninhabitable; and the 2004 earthquake that created a tsunami that killed thousands in Sumatra. Each entry includes a list of readings for additional research, and the encyclopedia is illustrated with numerous photos and line illustrations that show the destruction and despair caused by these disasters.