Critical Perspectives on Natural Disasters

by Jennifer Viegas (Editor)

The impact of natural disasters and forces of nature including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, storms and asteroids are explored. Discussions range from the disaster’s effects on lives and livelihoods to the cutting-edge technologies used to research and better predict these events.

247 pages, Library Binding

First published July 1, 2006

Reviews

[Emily Beauparlant · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a very informational book. It was filled with interesting facts about weather disasters. I liked almost all of the book, YES some of it was really boring,but the rest was very interesting to me.

Natural disasters was a very interesting book to read for many different reasons! It was full of informational text about many different weather disasters such as tornadoes and earth quakes. It informed me about how they form and why they can get so damaging.

This story was about how this weather forms and how it gets to be as bad as they can get. It showed me with diagrams and with words that tornadoes are cause by the wind going in a circular motion and the hot and cold air combining. Also that and earth quake is caused by two tech tonic plates colliding and create a large movement and impact on earths surface or oceans.

I think that the authors purpose of reading this is to teach and inform the reader about these disasters. I think that the author achieved her goal of giving helpful information to the reader.