P Blaikie, T Cannon, I Davis, B Wisner - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
The term'natural disaster'is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase'natural disaster'suggests an uncritical acceptance …
EM Everham, NVL Brokaw - The botanical review, 1996 - Springer
The literature on the effects of catastrophic wind disturbance (windstorms, gales, cyclones, hurricanes, tornadoes) on forest vegetation is reviewed to examine factors controlling the …
P Blaikie, T Cannon, I Davis, B Wisner - 2004 - books.google.com
At Risk reasserts the significance of the human factor in disasters. Establishing that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural …
RB Potter, D Barker, T Klak, D Conway - 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
This text focuses on the contemporary economic, social, geographical, environmental and political realities of the Caribbean region. Historical aspects of the Caribbean, such as …
Patterns of damage caused to trees ≧ 3 cm dbh in Jamaican montane rain forests by Hurricane Gilbert were described in a series of permanent plots over a study area of 2.5 km …
RP Spunt, E Ellsworth, R Adolphs - Social Cognitive and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Humans cannot help but attribute human emotions to non-human animals. Although such attributions are often regarded as gratuitous anthropomorphisms and held apart from the …
RS Pulwarty, WE Riebsame - Hurricanes: Climate and socioeconomic …, 1997 - Springer
Differences in research emphases into the impacts and management of natural hazards have, for the most part, resulted from two fundamentally different views environment-society …
Dualism, natural disasters and territorial size are identified as important constraints on agricultural development for tropical islands like Jamaica. Historically, unequal competition …