Disaster by Choice: How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes

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effective human action that limits damage, such as managing flooding in Toronto and villages in Bangladesh, or wildfires in Colorado. The Geological Society of London is the UK's national society for geoscience, providing support to over 12,000 members in the UK and overseas. Two scientific papers describe the mental health and coping mechanisms of youth experiencing the disaster of a flood in Germany. Games can help change our psychology about disasters, creating confidence that we can and should prevent them. If you continue without changing your settings we'll assume you are happy to receive all GSL cookies.

In this wide-ranging, one-stop guide, James Temperton outlines the medical revolutions that are transforming healthcare. Disasters arise when we fail to build suitable housing capable of withstanding 400 kph winds, fail to shun places subject to lava flows or tsunamis, or do not create a culture of warning and safe shelter for all – including for those with disabilities. Environmental psychology and philosophy take us from "solastalgia" to radical anticipation of a new era.From a couples’ meet-cute to businesspeople who’ve turned misfires into multi-million dollar ideas, Christian reveals the secrets behind the hidden force that rules the universe – serendipity. Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami continue to provide many post-disaster mental health and wellbeing lessons to be implemented for prevention.

He looks at the burgeoning immune therapies that could one day cure such life-threatening diseases as cancer. An] engaging book filled with rich examples and details of specific historical events Kelmans succinct and generally lucid account of the state of knowledge within the field, will likely be useful to a wide range of readers. We feel the need to fight natural forces, to reclaim what we assume is ours, and to protect ourselves from what we perceive to be wrath from outside our communities. This Way to the Universe’ is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the scale of our daily lives. Disasters arise from a lack of preparedness, which may result from individual actions or a lack of political will.

A new scientific study explores how youth’s disaster-coping strategies can lead to maladjustment or adjustment.

The disaster is not the tornado, the volcanic eruption, or climate change, but the deaths and injuries, the loss of irreplaceable property, and the lack and even denial of support to affected people, so that a short-term interruption becomes a long-term recovery nightmare. A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and creating the unique climates and weather patterns that make each part of the world different. We put ourselves in harm’s way; we fail to take measures which we know would prevent disasters, no matter what the environment does.Despite environmental destruction impacting mental health and wellbeing, connecting science, art, and action helps heal and improve. Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. Indigenous people in northern Sweden experience the mental health impact of losing their land, heritage, and livelihood. The thing that makes a natural hazard a disaster is when it impacts on human populations, taking assets or (worse yet) lives.