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Discover and access geoscience information resources via one of the world’s premier Earth science libraries.We feel the need to fight natural forces, to reclaim what weassume is ours, and to protect ourselves from what we perceive to be wrath from outside our communities.

A thin, invisible layer of air surrounds the Earth, sustaining all known life on the planet and creating the unique climates and weather patterns that make each part of the world different. They arise from the political processes dictating where and what we build, and from social circumstances which create and perpetuate poverty and discrimination.This attitude distracts us from the real causes of disasters: humanity's decisions, as societies and as individuals. They develop from the social preference to blame nature for the damage wrought, when in fact events such as earthquakes and storms are entirely commonplace environmental processes. In this wide-ranging, one-stop guide, James Temperton outlines the medical revolutions that are transforming healthcare. The Pgak’yau people in northern Thailand must survive solastalgia (mental distress from forced environmental change). assume is ours, and to protect ourselves from what we perceive to be wrath from outside our communities.

Disaster by Choice demonstrates in a vivid and engaging way why big issues like the current climate crisis, where people are starting to accept that their actions can contribute to a collective result on a global scale, are just the tip of the iceberg. An] engaging book filled with rich examples and details of specific historical events Kelmans succinct and generally lucid account of the state of knowledge within the field, will likely be useful to a wide range of readers. Damming Finland’s River Kemi wrecked livelihoods and people-land connections, exemplifying mental health impacts from human-caused environmental change. But we can combat this, as Kelman shows, describing inspiring examples ofeffective human action that limits damage, such as managing flooding in Toronto and villages in Bangladesh, or wildfires in Colorado.

Disaster by Choice really brings the examples and recommendations down to our daily lives and practices to make them more impactful. We put ourselves in harm's way; we fail to take measures which we know would prevent disasters, no matter what the environment does. Despite eco-trauma and solastalgia (mental distress), the indigenous Ogiek people in Kenya are opposing evictions from and destruction of their forest.

Dr Christian Busch has spent a decade exploring how unexpected encounters can enhance our worldview, expand our social circles and create new opportunities. If you continue without changing your settings we'll assume you are happy to receive all GSL cookies. Taking us from the everyday numbers that govern our health and wellbeing to the statistics used to wield enormous power and influence, ‘The Number Bias’ counsels us to think more wisely. The thing that makes a natural hazard a disaster is when it impacts on human populations, taking assets or (worse yet) lives. Geoscientist is the Fellowship magazine of the Geological Society: with news about science, people, the Society, features, reviews, opinion, letters and forthcoming events.Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami continue to provide many post-disaster mental health and wellbeing lessons to be implemented for prevention. Environmental psychology and philosophy take us from "solastalgia" to radical anticipation of a new era. The disaster is not the tornado, the volcanic eruption, or climate change, but the deaths and injuries, the loss of irreplaceable property, and the lack and even denial of support to affected people, so that a short-term interruption becomes a long-term recovery nightmare. Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. A new scientific study explores how youth’s disaster-coping strategies can lead to maladjustment or adjustment.