emergency management

"Examines what scientists know about wildfires, whether we can predict them, and how we learn from each event. Case studies and brief bios of key scientists and organizations highlight the information"--Provided by publisher.

"[This book] will teach you how to prepare for disasters that might befall you--like fires, blizzards, tornados, floods, and earthquakes. [It] shares . . . lifesaving strategies to deal with threats ranging from low-risk to apocalyptic. Also includes expert tips on . . . equipment to keep on hand as well as many . . . survival stories"--Provided by publisher.

Although infectious disease outbreaks have long threatened the well-being of human societies, the realization that such epidemics and pandemics can be controlled or even prevented in the first place is recent. With advances in scientific understanding of disease and the development of technologies for the early detection of infectious agents, health agencies are better equipped for disease prevention and surveillance. This volume explores epidemic and pandemic threats and approaches to disease detection, prevention, and surveillance, relating them to concepts that lie at the foundation of STEM education. It also describes the steps readers can take to prepare for disease outbreaks.

"When seventh-grader Eleanor reads an article online claiming that an asteroid will hit Earth in April, she starts an underground school club to prepare kids for the end of the world as we know it"--Provided by the publisher.

An examination of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami that covers early warning signs, consequences of the disaster, damages to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, and other related topics.

Detail the procedures commonly used by emergency personnel in dealing with natural disasters.

Readers will learn why volcanoes erupt, what damage they cause, and how eruptions are predicted.

"Ellis Kimball, sixteen, whose anxiety disorder causes her to prepare for the imminent end of the world, meets Hannah, who claims to know when it will happen"--Provided by publisher.

"When seventh-grader Eleanor reads an article online claiming that an asteroid will hit Earth in April, she starts an underground school club to prepare kids for the end of the world as we know it"--Provided by publisher.