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Encyclopedia of Disasters - Environmental Catastrophes and Human Tragedies [2 volumes] (Hardcover, New)
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Encyclopedia of Disasters - Environmental Catastrophes and Human Tragedies [2 volumes] (Hardcover, New)
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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. The Encyclopedia of Disasters
covers over 180 of the most important disasters in history.
Arranged chronologically, the encyclopedia includes entries on
those disasters that have had the greatest historical,
environmental, and cultural impact: BLThe eruption of Mt. Vesuvius,
which destroyed the towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum The London
Fire of 1666, which flattened much of London and allowed the
rebuilding of the city BLThe influenza epidemic of 1918, which
killed millions BLThe 1964 Prince William Sound earthquake in
Alaska, which caused death and destruction as far away as Hawaii
BLThe worst nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in
1964, that has rendered the surrounding landscape uninhabitable
BLThe 2004 earthquake that created a tsunami that killed thousands
in Sumatra Each entry includes a list of readings for additional
research, and the encyclopedia is illustrated withnumerous photos
and line illustrations that show the destruction and despair caused
by these disasters.
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