This book explores stories of some of our worst disasters to show how we can and should act to stop people dying when nature unleashes its energies. This Way to the Universe’ is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the scale of our daily lives. He explores the science – and ethics – of genetic engineering and its potential to create ‘designer babies’. One day later a wildfire lit up the forest in the Cold Springs Fire, which killed numerous animals, forced 2000 people to evacuate, and destroyed eight homes. Information about the Geological Society’s internationally acclaimed books and journals for authors, editors, librarians and readers.

Indigenous people in northern Sweden experience the mental health impact of losing their land, heritage, and livelihood. However, eight houses within the burnt area were participating in the Wildfire Partners programme of mitigation measures. 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. Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. Disasters arise when we fail to build suitable housing capable of withstanding 400 kph winds, fail to shun places subject to lava flows or tsunamis, or do not create a culture of warning and safe shelter for all – including for those with disabilities.

But we can combat this, as Kelman shows, describing inspiring examples of effective human action that limits damage, such as managing flooding in Toronto and villages in Bangladesh, or wildfires in Colorado. Floods, fires and viruses are just three of a panoply of natural hazards that includes earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and many others. This is an excellent little book that crystallises ideas about the influence and impact of human actions on natural catastrophes into a thoughtful and informative narrative, concluding - and rightly so - that there is no such thing as a natural disaster.

In this wide-ranging, one-stop guide, James Temperton outlines the medical revolutions that are transforming healthcare. Sanne Blauw travels the world to unpick our relationship with numbers and demystify our misguided allegiance, from Florence Nightingale using statistics to petition for better conditions during the Crimean War to the manipulation of numbers by the American tobacco industry and the ambiguous figures pedalled during the EU referendum. This attitude distracts us from the real causes of disasters: humanity's decisions, as societies and as individuals. Dr Christian Busch has spent a decade exploring how unexpected encounters can enhance our worldview, expand our social circles and create new opportunities. 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.

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. assume is ours, and to protect ourselves from what we perceive to be wrath from outside our communities. Life is full of the unexpected: chance encounters, changing plans, delayed journeys and other mishaps.

He looks at the burgeoning immune therapies that could one day cure such life-threatening diseases as cancer. The thing that makes a natural hazard a disaster is when it impacts on human populations, taking assets or (worse yet) lives. Damming Finland’s River Kemi wrecked livelihoods and people-land connections, exemplifying mental health impacts from human-caused environmental change. The Geological Society offers grades of membership for every stage of your career, from student to retirement.In a story that resonates with the moorland fires in England, three people in July 2016 chose to camp in the woodlands around Nederland, Colorado, and did not properly extinguish their barbeque. Two scientific papers describe the mental health and coping mechanisms of youth experiencing the disaster of a flood in Germany.