Natural disasters / Patrick L. Abbot and Blodgett, Robert H.
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| Lenguaje: | Español |
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New York :
Mc Graw-Hill,
2012.
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| Edición: | 8th ed. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.