[图书][B] Handbook of hazards and disaster risk reduction

B Wisner, JC Gaillard, I Kelman - 2012 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and
disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary …

Disaster geoarchaeology and natural cataclysms in world cultural evolution: An overview

I Liritzis, A Westra, C Miao - Journal of Coastal Research, 2019 - meridian.allenpress.com
ABSTRACT Liritzis, I.; Westra, A., and Miao, C., 2019. Disaster geoarchaeology and natural
cataclysms in world cultural evolution: An overview. Journal of Coastal Research, 35 (6) …

On the probability of occurrence of extreme space weather events

P Riley - Space Weather, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
By virtue of their rarity, extreme space weather events, such as the Carrington event of 1859,
are difficult to study, their rates of occurrence are difficult to estimate, and prediction of a …

[图书][B] Into the extreme: US environmental systems and politics beyond Earth

V Olson - 2018 - books.google.com
The first book-length, in-depth ethnography of US human spaceflight What if outer space is
not outside the human environment but, rather, defines it? This is the unusual starting point …

[图书][B] Imagining outer space: European astroculture in the twentieth century

ACT Geppert - 2012 - Springer
Imagining Outer Space makes a captivating advance into the cultural history of outer space
and extraterrestrial life in the European imagination. How was outer space conceived and …

Exploring the nature of myth and its role in science

WB Masse, EW Barber, L Piccardi… - … Society, London, Special …, 2007 - lyellcollection.org
The scientific study of myth is dominated by a paradigm that recognizes myth as having
been viewed as truthful narrative history by past traditional cultures and yet is considered …

[图书][B] The science of fear: How the culture of fear manipulates your brain

D Gardner - 2008 - books.google.com
“An invaluable resource for anyone who aspires to think clearly”(The Guardian) from the
New York Times bestselling author of Superforecasting and Future Babble From terror …

Asteroid impacts and modern civilization: Can we prevent a catastrophe?

AW Harris, M Boslough, CR Chapman, L Drube… - Asteroids IV, 2015 - elib.dlr.de
We are now approaching the level of technical expertise necessary to deflect a near-Earth
asteroid (NEA) capable of destroying a large urban area, if not a small country. The current …

Impossible to disprove yet impossible to believe: The unforgiving epistemology of deep-time oral tradition

D Henige - History in Africa, 2009 - cambridge.org
This is not a real old time myth but it is what they say now, and it must have been like that.
This man from Ulimang was highly skilled in the art of warfare—like Eisenhower. A Tahitian …

Political ecology in the extreme: Asteroid activism and the making of an environmental solar system

VA Olson - Anthropological Quarterly, 2012 - JSTOR
This case study examines how, in a post-Cold War context, aerospace and astronautics
practices and policies are becoming more comprehensively attached to national and …