Natural disasters / Patrick L. Abbot and Blodgett, Robert H.

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Autor principal: Abbot, Patrick L.
Otros Autores: Blodgett, Robert H.
Formato: Desconocido
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: New York : Mc Graw-Hill, 2012.
Edición:8th ed.
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505 |a Prologue: Energy Flows -- Processes of construction versus destruction -- 1. Natural Disasters and the Human Population -- Natural disasters in 2008 -- Great natural disasters -- Human fatalities in natural disasters -- The role of government in natural - disaster death totals -- Human responses to disaster -- Economic losses from natural disasters -- Insured portion of economic losses -- Natural hazards -- Popocatépetl volcano, Mexico - Magnitude, frequency and return period -- Role of population growth -- Overview of human population history -- The power of an exponent on growth -- The last 10.000 years of human history -- Interest paid on money: an example of exponential growth -- The human population today -- Future world population -- The demographic divide -- Urbanization and earthquake fatalities -- Carring capacity -- Easter island (Rapa Nui) -- 2. Internal Energy and Plate Tectonics -- 3. Earthquake Geology and Seismology -- 4. Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes -- 5. Earthquake Lessons and Regional Settings -- 6. Volcanic Eruptions: Plate Tectonics and Magmas -- 7. Volcano Case Histories: Killer Events -- 8. Tsunami Versus Wind-Caused Waves -- 9. External Energy Fuels Weather and Climate -- 10. Tornadoes, Lightning, Heat, and Cold -- 11. Hurricanes -- 12. Climate Change -- 13. Floods -- 14. Fire -- 15. Mass Movements -- 16. Impacts with Space objects -- Epilogue: Mass extinctions. 
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