Books

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In this section, you will find books that cover many natural disasters. This page highlights general resources covering multiple natural disasters. The subpages for this section of the guide will focus on individual disaster types for more focused research. Due to overlap, some resources will display on multiple pages.

Each title links to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. While these titles are held by the Library of Congress, many of them will also be available through your local public or academic library.

General Resources

Dangerous Earth by Ellen Prager
Call Number: GB5014 .P73 2020
ISBN: 9780226541693
Published/Created: 2020
Dangerous Earth explores the science of investigating volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, rip currents, and climate change. Each chapter considers a specific hazard, begins with a game-changing historical event, and highlights what remains unknown about these dynamic phenomena.
Disaster! by John Withington
Call Number: D24 .W54 2010
ISBN: 9781602397491
Published/Created: 2010
Covers a wide range of historical disasters, both natural and of human creation, including tsunamis, earthquakes, terrorism, cholera and small pox, the Black Death, and the 1883 volcanic eruption on Krakatoa.
Earthshock: Hurricanes, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tornadoes and Other Forces of Nature by Andrew Robinson
Call Number: GB5014 .R63 1993
ISBN: 0500277389
Published/Created: 1993
This title provides information on a number of natural disasters and also includes information regarding climate change and how it affects the earth and atmosphere.
Environmental Hazards by Keith Smith
Call Number: GB5014 .S6 2013
ISBN: 9780415681056
Published/Created: 2013
The sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides an overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and employs a consistent chapter structure to demonstrate how individual hazards, such as earthquakes, severe storms, floods and droughts, plus biophysical and technological processes, create distinctive impacts and challenges throughout the world.
Extreme Weather by H. Michael Mogil
Call Number: QC981 .M645 2007
ISBN: 9781579127435
Published/Created: 2007
Organized by weather event including hurricanes, winter storms, lightning, tornadoes, floods, heat waves, and more, Extreme Weather takes a look at how meteorological systems work and discusses the impact human activity has had in altering both weather and climate.
Global Warming, Natural Hazards, and Emergency Management by George Haddow, Jane A. Bullock, Kim Haddow (Editors)
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 G581943 2009
ISBN: 9781420081824
Published/Created: 2008
This book offers case histories from communities across America that have successfully reduced the extent and consequences of natural disasters. It explains how to develop community partnerships among stakeholders, identifies staffing and resource requirements for successful programs, and provides a step-by-step demonstration of the disaster-planning process at the community level.
Guide to Global Hazards by Robert Kovach and Bill McGuire
Call Number: GB5014 .K69 2004
ISBN: 155297815X
Published/Created: 2004
This title serves as a guide to the many large-scale natural disasters that affect and afflict life on Earth -- both globally and locally. Some of the global hazards covered are earthquakes, volcanoes, fires, flooding, coastal erosion, tsunamis, hurricanes, and tornadoes.
Natural Disasters by Lee Davis
Call Number: GB5014 .D38 2008
ISBN: 9780816070008
Published/Created: 2008
In addition to providing the basic facts of each disaster, this text offers insight into the background of each event, the ultimate impact on mankind and the environment, and eyewitness accounts. Its coverage includes avalanches and landslides, cyclones, droughts and famines, earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes.
Notable Natural Disasters by Marlene Bradford and Robert S. Carmichael (Editors)
Call Number: GB5014 .N373 2007
ISBN: 9781587653681
Published/Created: 2007
Overview essays on disaster types explain them in scientific terms and discuss the science behind the phenomenon. Each event entry begins with a general description of location or the popular designation for the disaster, plus the most accurate date for the event.
Quakes, Eruptions and Other Geologic Cataclysms by Jon Erickson
Call Number: GB5014 .E75 2001
ISBN: 081604516X
Published/Created: 2001
This book provides coverage of the processes that produce natural catastrophes. Chapters include coverage of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, earth movements, floods and dust storms.

Natural Disasters: A Resource Guide

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General Resources