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Encyclopedia of Disasters [2 volumes]: Environmental Catastrophes and Human Tragedies
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Angus M. Gunn, "Encyclopedia of Disasters [2 volumes]: Environmental Catastrophes and Human Tragedies"
English | ISBN: 0313340021 | 2007 | 824 pages | AZW3 | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 0313340021 | 2007 | 824 pages | AZW3 | 8 MB
Disasters can strike at any time. From the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius to Hurricane Katrina, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters have caused tremendous loss of life, human suffering, and environmental catastrophe. The complex technological and social changes of the last few centuries have not only intensified the impact of such natural disasters, but have added new introduced new reasons to be concerned - plane crashes, bombings, industrial accidents, genocides. Calling some disasters natural and others man-made downplays the important interrelationship between the event and human actions. Human actions - or inactions - can catapult a natural phenomenon into a deadly catastrophe. Likewise, nature can be terribly disrupted by events that are created by humans.
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