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Disasters by the Numbers

Author : Steve Jenkins

Publisher : HMH Books For Young Readers

Page : 53 pages

File Size : 43,46 MB

Release : 2021-10-26

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1328569489

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An amazing look at Earth's natural disasters as seen through numbers, facts, and stunning infographics from Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins! From Caldecott Honor-winning author-illustrator Steve Jenkins comes an in-depth look at the world's natural disasters, broken down into four distinct categories: earth, weather, life, and space. From timelines of causes and outcomes of each disaster, graphs highlighting humans' effect on the earth, and a text teeming with fresh, unexpected, and accurate information ready for readers to easily devour, Disasters by the Numbers is unmatched and sure to wow fans old and new.



Thirty Years of Natural Disasters 1974-2003: The Numbers

Author : Debarati Guha-Sapir

Publisher : Presses univ. de Louvain

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 36,47 MB

Release : 2004

Category : History

ISBN : 9782930344713

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Over the last 30 years, 6,367 natural disasters killed more than 2 million people. A cumulative total of 5.1 billion individuals were affected, of which 182 million were left homeless.These same disasters caused US$1.4 trillion worth of damages. Data on natural disasters and their impact on populations and economies play an essential role in understanding the factors that increase human vulnerability and the importance of disaster preparedness, mitigation and prevention.



Earth

Author : Steve Jenkins

Publisher : Clarion Books

Page : 45 pages

File Size : 24,92 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1328851028

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"How old is the earth? Where is the ice three miles thick? Why are volcanoes so dangerous? Where are the wettest and driest spots on the planet? Find the answers to these questions--and many more--in Earth by the numbers."--Dust jacket flap.



Dull Disasters?

Author : Daniel Jonathan Clarke

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 154 pages

File Size : 24,95 MB

Release : 2016

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0198785577

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Dull Disasters? shows how countries and their partners can better prepare for natural disasters such as typhoons, earthquakes, floods, and drought. By harnessing lessons from finance, political science, economics, psychology, and the naturalsciences, it is possible for governments, civil society, private firms, and international organizations to work together to achieve better preparedness, thereby reducing the risks to people and economies and enablingquicker recoveries. In this way, responses to disasters become less emotional, less political, less headline-grabbing, and more business as usual and effective.



Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters

Author : World Bank

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 16,40 MB

Release : 2010-11-10

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0821381415

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This book examines how to ensure that the preventive measures are worthwhile and effective, and how people can make decisions individually and collectively at different levels of government.



Disasters

Author : Brenda Z. Guiberson

Publisher : Macmillan

Page : 239 pages

File Size : 19,16 MB

Release : 2010-06-08

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 0805081704

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"Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their incredible devastation and magnitude. In this collection of ten well-known catastrophes ... Brenda Guiberson explores the causes and effects, as well as the local and global reverberations of these calamitous events."--Barnesandnoble.com.



Insects

Author : Steve Jenkins

Publisher : Clarion Books

Page : 45 pages

File Size : 31,48 MB

Release : 2020

Category : Juvenile Nonfiction

ISBN : 1328850994

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Book Description

Collects infographics and illustrations that visually represent interesting and easy-to-understand facts, figures, and comparisons intended to offer readers a better understanding about all kinds of insects.



Roman Disasters

Author : Jerry Toner

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 47,3 MB

Release : 2013-07-10

Category : History

ISBN : 0745665497

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Roman Disasters looks at how the Romans coped with, thought about, and used disasters for their own ends. Rome has been famous throughout history for its great triumphs. Yet Rome also suffered colossal disasters. From the battle of Cannae, where fifty thousand men fell in a single day, to the destruction of Pompeii, to the first appearance of the bubonic plague, the Romans experienced large scale calamities.Earthquakes, fires, floods and famines also regularly afflicted them. This insightful book is the first to treat such disasters as a conceptual unity. It shows that vulnerability to disasters was affected by politics, social status, ideology and economics. Above all, it illustrates how the resilience of their political and cultural system allowed the Romans to survive the impact of these life-threatening events. The book also explores the important role disaster narratives played in Christian thought and rhetoric. Engaging and accessible, Roman Disasters will be enjoyed by students and general readers alike.



Disasters and Tragic Events [2 volumes]

Author : Mitchell Newton-Matza

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 1389 pages

File Size : 15,66 MB

Release : 2014-03-26

Category : History

ISBN :

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From the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 to the Sandy Hook school massacre of 2012, this two-volume encyclopedia surveys tragic events—natural and man-made, famous and forgotten—that helped shape American history. Tragedies and disasters have always been part of the fabric of American history. Some gave rise to reactions that profoundly influenced the nation. Others dominated public consciousness for a moment, then disappeared from collective memory. Organized chronologically, Disasters and Tragic Events examines these moments, covering both the familiar and the obscure and probing their immediate and long-term effects. Unlike other works that concentrate on a particular type of disaster, for example, weather- or medicine-related tragedies, this two-volume encyclopedia has no such limits. Its entries range from natural disasters, such as hurricanes and tornadoes, to civic disturbances, environmental disasters, epidemics and medical errors, transportation accidents, and more. The work is a perfect supplement for history classes and will also prove of great interest to the general reader.



Natural Disasters

Author : Anders Wijkman

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 150 pages

File Size : 42,5 MB

Release : 2020-03-31

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1000708152

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Originally published in 1984 Natural Disasters shows how misleading the term “natural disaster” can be. Forces of nature such as earthquakes, cyclones and extreme variations in weather can trigger disasters, but in many Third World countries it is environmental degradation, poverty and rapid population growth which turn a natural hazard into major disaster. This book questions whether the rich nations’ usual response to disaster – fast, short-lived emergency assistance – is any longer adequate. Today, most major disasters are “development” gone wrong, development which puts millions of poor people on the margins of existence. Disaster relief alone is like bandaging a rapidly growing wound. The appropriate response must include an element of true development – development which reduces rather than increases vulnerability to disasters.