Manmade or technological disasters are unpredictable, can spread across geographical boundaries, may be unpreventable, and may have limited physical damage but long-term effects. Some disasters in ...

It is widely argued that seismic activities have intensified in Japan since the Great Hanshin earthquake (the Kobe earthquake) in 1995. And amongst the subsequent major earthquakes, the 2011 Tohoku ...

More and more people are building their homes in woodland settings in or near forests, rural areas, or remote mountain sites. As residential areas expand into relatively untouched wildlands, these ...

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As COVID-19 first broke in March 2020 and California wildfires raged, one thing became clear: The field of psychiatry needed a new way of thinking about and responding to complicated, overlapping ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. In the wake of a large-scale disaster, from the initial devastation through the long ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — As the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events in the United States are becoming more frequent, more intense, and increasingly costly. From 1980 through 2024, the United ...