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Natural Disasters, 12th edition focuses on explaining how the
normal processes of Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy
blows to humans and their structures. Students have a natural
curiosity about natural disasters and why they occur. This text
explains why natural disasters occur by interweaving the themes of
Energy sources, Plate tectonics, Climate change, Earth Processes,
Geologic time, the complexities of multiple variables operating
simultaneously throughout the text.
"Natural Disasters," 9th edition, updates text, tables and figures;
adds new photos; places more emphasis on processes and less on case
histories. Chapter 1 now includes a brief section on disease
pandemics. Chapter 13 on floods is rewritten. A brief, new Chapter
16 pulls together coastal processes and adds rip currents and tidal
bores. Chapter 18 on mass extinctions (Great Dyings) is updated and
available for inclusion in the textbook. Significant events added
include the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami; the record-setting
2011 U.S. tornado year; and the felony conviction of seven Italian
scientists for not giving better prediction of the L'Aquila
earthquake. The book retains its focus on Earth's natural processes
and the disasters that occur when the Earth concentrates its energy
and releases it, causing death and destruction.
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