NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS, 5e brings course concepts to life with interactive learning, study, and exam preparation tools along with up-to-date, market-leading text content. Adopt the resources that enable your students to purchase the right solution to meet their needs, whether it’s a traditional printed text, all digital learning platform, or package that includes the best of both worlds. With the fully updated NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS and CourseMate’s interactive teaching and learning tools, it’s never been easier to help students understand the underlying geological processes, explore the impact these processes have on humans and vice versa, and analyze strategies for mitigating these hazards’ physical and financial harm.

1. Natural Hazards and Disasters.
2. Plate Tectonics and Physical Hazards.
3. Earthquakes and Their Causes.
4. Earthquake Predictions, Forecasts, and Mitigation.
5. Tsunami.
6. Volcanoes: Tectonic Environments and Eruptions.
7. Volcanoes: Hazards and Mitigation.
8. Landslides and Other Downslope Movements.
9. Sinkholes, Land Subsidence, and Swelling Soils.
10. Weather, Thunderstorms, and Tornadoes.
11. Climate Change: Processes and History
12. Climate Change: Impacts and Mitigation
13. Streams and Flood Processes.
14. Floods and Human Interactions.
15. Waves, Beaches, and Coastal Erosion.
16. Hurricanes and Nor’easters.
17. Wildfires.
18. Asteroids and Comet Impacts.

NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS, 5e brings course concepts to life with interactive learning, study, and exam preparation tools along with up-to-date, market-leading text content. Adopt the resources that enable your students to purchase the right solution to meet their needs, whether it’s a traditional printed text, all digital learning platform, or package that includes the best of both worlds. With the fully updated NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS and CourseMate’s interactive teaching and learning tools, it’s never been easier to help students understand the underlying geological processes, explore the impact these processes have on humans and vice versa, and analyze strategies for mitigating these hazards’ physical and financial harm. EXPANDED COVERAGE of key topics includes information on the polar vortex and new insights on earthquakes associated with fracking. GLOBAL WARMING AND CLIMATE CHANGE is now presented in two chapters to accommodate new findings. NEW SURVIVAL GUIDES highlight information to keep in mind when preparing for or encountering a significant natural hazard. CRITICAL VIEW features ask students to use what they have learned in the chapters to analyze potential hazards in photographs of real situations. CRITICAL THINKING QUESTIONS at the end of each chapter help students apply concepts from the chapter to difficult real-life situations. BY THE NUMBERS boxes present quantitative aspects of the concepts explained in the book, offering instructors the flexibility to incorporate more or less of this material according to their preferences. CASES IN POINT bring to life real examples of recent disasters, with questions to engage students in the issues.