Tag: Disaster

Free Download Geo-information for Disaster Management By Alessandro Annoni, Lars Bernard, John Douglas, Joseph Greenwood, Irene Laiz (auth.), Professor Dr. Peter van Oosterom, Dr. Siyka Zlatanova, Elfriede M. Fendel (eds.)
2005 | 1433 Pages | ISBN: 3540249885 | PDF | 55 MB
Geo-information technology offers an opportunity to support disaster management: industrial accidents, road collisions, complex emergencies, earthquakes, fires, floods and similar catastrophes (for example the recent huge disaster with the Tsunami in South-East Asia on 26 December 2004). Access to needed information, facilitation of the interoperability of emergency services, and provision of high-quality care to the public are a number of the key requirements.Such requirements pose significant challenges for data management, discovery, translation, integration, visualization and communication based on the semantics of the heterogeneous (geo-) information sources with differences in many aspects: scale/resolution, dimension (2D or 3D), classification and attribute schemes, temporal aspects (up-to-date-ness, history, predictions of the future), spatial reference system used, etc.The book provides a broad overview of the (geo-information) technology, software, systems needed, used and to be developed for disaster management. The book provokes a wide discussion on systems and requirements for use of geo-information under time and stress constraints and unfamiliar situations, environments and circumstances.

Free Download Yasmine Ali, "Walk through Fire: The Train Disaster that Changed America"
English | ISBN: 0806542187 | 2023 | 272 pages | PDF | 56 MB
The first book to examine the rarely-acknowledged Waverly Train Disaster of 1978 – the catastrophic accident that changed America forever and led to the formation of FEMA. Coinciding with the 45th anniversary of the event, WALK THROUGH FIRE is a tribute to the first responders, as well as an examination of the strengths and vulnerabilities in rural America.

Free Download Philip Jan Rothstein, "IT Disaster Recovery Planning For Dummies"
English | 2007 | pages: 387 | ISBN: 0470039736 | PDF | 4,6 mb
If you have a business or a nonprofit organization, or if you’re the one responsible for information systems at such an operation, you know that disaster recovery planning is pretty vital. But it’s easy to put it off. After all, where do you start?

Free Download Mastering VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Ransomware Resilience:
A Practical Guide on VMware Cloud Disaster and Ransomware Recovery SaaS Solution
English | 2024 | ASIN : B0DBSYJH3D | 195 Pages | PDF | 12 MB

Free Download Mastering VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and Ransomware Resilience:
A Practical Guide on VMware Cloud Disaster and Ransomware Recovery SaaS Solution
English | 2024 | ASIN : B0DBSYJH3D | 195 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 17 MB

Free Download John Swinfield – Airship: Design, Development and Disaster
Conway | 2012 | ISBN: 1844861384 | English | 376 pages | PDF | 135.27 MB
Airship charts the history of lighter-than-air craft from the continental pioneers of the late 19th century through to European airship stations in the Great War, Germany’s pre-eminent commercial and military zeppelins, the construction of British behemoths R100 and its sister ship R101 and the calamitous losses of USS Akron in 1933 and LZ129 Hindenburg in 1937, events which ultimately heralded the end of large-scale airship production.

Free Download Earthquake and Disaster Risk: Decade Retrospective of the Wenchuan Earthquake by Yong-Gang Li
English | EPUB | 2019 | 259 Pages | ISBN : 9811380147 | 96.8 MB
This book presents review papers and research articles focusing on the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China, discussing cross-disciplinary and multiple thematic aspects of modern seismological, geophysical, geological and stochastic methodology and technology. Resulting from international and regional earthquake research and disaster mitigation collaborations, and written by international authors from multiple institutions and disciplines, it describes methods and techniques in earthquake science based on investigations of the Wenchuan earthquake. It also includes extensive reference lists to aid further research.

Free Download Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Civil Infrastructures: From Tall Buildings to Urban Areas, Second Edition by Xinzheng Lu
English | EPUB | 2021 | 952 Pages | ISBN : 9811595313 | 260.9 MB
The first edition of this monograph, presenting accurate and efficient simulations of seismic damage to buildings and cities, has received significant attention from the research community. To keep abreast of the rapid development in recent years, our latest breakthrough achievements have been added to this new edition, including novel resilient structural components, secondary disaster simulations, emergency responses and resilient recovery of communities after earthquake.

Free Download Disaster Risk Reduction Approaches in Bangladesh By Rajib Shaw, Aminul Islam, Fuad Mallick (auth.), Rajib Shaw, Fuad Mallick, Aminul Islam (eds.)
2013 | 366 Pages | ISBN: 4431542515 | PDF | 8 MB
This book outlines disaster risk reduction (DRR) approaches in Bangladesh, drawing examples and lessons from the national and community-level programs, projects, and relevant experiences of the country. The content is based on a selection of available documents, a consultative workshop with academicians from different universities undertaking DRR higher education programs, and the editors’ own knowledge and experience in the field. Special emphasis is given to analyzing field experiences from academic perspectives, and to highlighting key issues and the policy relevance of disaster risk reduction. The book has three parts: Part I provides the outline and basics of DRR, with examples from a global review and from national policies and priorities. Part II covers seven different hazards in Bangladesh, focusing on both shocks and stresses. Part III provides examples of approaches and issues of DRR practices. The primary target groups for this book are students and researchers in the fields of environment, disaster risk reduction, and climate change studies. The book will provide them with a good idea of the current trend of research in the field and will furnish basic knowledge on this important topic in Bangladesh. Another target group comprises practitioners and policy makers, who will be able to apply collective knowledge to policy and decision making.

Free Download Judgment on Erebus: A Notorious Air Disaster on Antarctica’s Mount Erebus Tests a Nation’s Conscience
by Joey Sheehan
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1647046629 | 404 Pages | True ePUB | 6.7 MB