Unraveling Environmental Disasters

Daniel A. Vallero, Trevor Letcher

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443186523
• Print ISBN:
  9780443186516
• Edition: 2

Unraveling Environmental Disasters, Second Edition provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways disasters could have been prevented and how to minimize risk of similar disasters in the future. In this new edition the authors provide foundational knowledge on why certain environmental disasters occur and ways of reducing the risk of recurrences. Anyone involved in teaching or working in the main sciences of physics, chemistry, and biology, or in the applied sciences, including engineering, design, planning, and homeland security, should read the book to become acquainted with these very important issues. - Evaluates natural hazards and disasters with an emphasis on lessons learned for better future forecasting - Considers the impact of human systems on environmental disasters, treating disasters as complex systems - Provides detailed predictions, based upon sound science, on why disasters occur - Includes fully updated chapters on food, health, and water - Focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects of each disaster - Includes disasters related to climate change and pollution

Table of contents

• Unraveling Environmental Disasters
• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Disaster characterization
• Chapter 2 Failure
• Chapter 3 Science
• Chapter 4 Chemical public health disasters
• Chapter 5 Explosions
• Chapter 6 Atmospheric plumes
• Chapter 7 Leaks
• Chapter 8 Spills
• Chapter 9 Fires
• Chapter 10 Climate: The scientific basis of pending disasters
• Chapter 11 Climate: Addressing the problems
• Chapter 12 Nature
• Chapter 13 Minerals
• Chapter 14 Recalcitrance
• Chapter 15 Radiation
• Chapter 16 Biodiversity
• Chapter 17 Products
• Chapter 18 Unsustainability
• Chapter 19 Society
• Chapter 20 Future
• Glossary
• Glossary
• Glossary
• Index
• Index - Continued