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Author : Oliver Lanard Fassig
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Hurricanes of the West Indies written by Oliver Lanard Fassig and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart B. Schwartz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173605
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Sea of Storms written by Stuart B. Schwartz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the Caribbean The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced the region's history, from the rise of plantations, to slavery and its abolition, to migrations, racial conflict, and war. Taking readers from the voyages of Columbus to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Schwartz looks at the ethical, political, and economic challenges that hurricanes posed to the Caribbean’s indigenous populations and the different European peoples who ventured to the New World to exploit its riches. He describes how the United States provided the model for responding to environmental threats when it emerged as a major power and began to exert its influence over the Caribbean in the nineteenth century, and how the region’s governments came to assume greater responsibilities for prevention and relief, efforts that by the end of the twentieth century were being questioned by free-market neoliberals. Schwartz sheds light on catastrophes like Katrina by framing them within a long and contentious history of human interaction with the natural world. Spanning more than five centuries and drawing on extensive archival research in Europe and the Americas, Sea of Storms emphasizes the continuing role of race, social inequality, and economic ideology in the shaping of our responses to natural disaster.
Author : Matthew Mulcahy
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801898978
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783 written by Matthew Mulcahy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-08-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricanes created unique challenges for the colonists in the British Greater Caribbean during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These storms were entirely new to European settlers and quickly became the most feared part of their physical environment, destroying staple crops and provisions, leveling plantations and towns, disrupting shipping and trade, and resulting in major economic losses for planters and widespread privation for slaves. In this study, Matthew Mulcahy examines how colonists made sense of hurricanes, how they recovered from them, and the role of the storms in shaping the development of the region's colonial settlements. Hurricanes and Society in the British Greater Caribbean, 1624–1783 provides a useful new perspective on several topics including colonial science, the plantation economy, slavery, and public and private charity. By integrating the West Indies into the larger story of British Atlantic colonization, Mulcahy's work contributes to early American history, Atlantic history, environmental history, and the growing field of disaster studies.
Author : Benito Viñes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Practical Hints in Regard to West Indian Hurricanes written by Benito Viñes and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Bennett Garriott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book West Indian Hurricanes written by Edward Bennett Garriott and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper reviews the writings of the more prominent meteorologists of the nineteenth century, so far as they refer to the tropical storms of the North Atlantic, and presents a chronological list of West Indian storms for four hundred years"--Letter of transmittal
Author : Wayne Neely
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475949278
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The Great Hurricane of 1780 written by Wayne Neely and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Great Hurricane of 1780," also known as Hurricane San Calixto II, is one of the most powerful and deadliest North Atlantic hurricanes on record. Often regarded as a cataclysmic hurricane, the storm's worst effects were experienced on October 10, 1780. In "The Great Hurricane of 1780," author Wayne Neely chronicles the chaos and destruction it brought to the Caribbean. This storm was likely generated in the mid Atlantic, not far from the equator; it was first felt in Barbados, where just about every tree and house on the island was blown down. The storm passed through the Lesser Antilles and a small portion of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean between October 10 and October 16 of 1780.Because the storm hit several of the most populous islands in the Caribbean, the death toll was very high. The official death toll was approximately 22,000 people but some historians have put the death toll as high as 27,500. Specifics on the hurricane's track and strength are unclear since the official North Atlantic hurricane database only goes back as far as 1851. Even so, it is a fact that this hurricane had a tremendous impact on economies in the Caribbean and parts of North America, and perhaps also played a major role in the outcome of the American Revolution. This thoroughly researched history considers the intense storm and its aftermath, offering an exploration of an important historical weather event that has been neglected in previous study.
Author : Everett Hayden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book West Indian Hurricanes and the March Blizzard,1888 written by Everett Hayden and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309494583
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Strengthening Post-Hurricane Supply Chain Resilience written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resilient supply chains are crucial to maintaining the consistent delivery of goods and services to the American people. The modern economy has made supply chains more interconnected than ever, while also expanding both their range and fragility. In the third quarter of 2017, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria revealed some significant vulnerabilities in the national and regional supply chains of Texas, Florida, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The broad impacts and quick succession of these three hurricanes also shed light on the effectiveness of the nation's disaster logistics efforts during response through recovery. Drawing on lessons learned during the 2017 hurricanes, this report explores future strategies to improve supply chain management in disaster situations. This report makes recommendations to strengthen the roles of continuity planning, partnerships between civic leaders with small businesses, and infrastructure investment to ensure that essential supply chains will remain operational in the next major disaster. Focusing on the supply chains food, fuel, water, pharmaceutical, and medical supplies, the recommendations of this report will assist the Federal Emergency Management Agency as well as state and local officials, private sector decision makers, civic leaders, and others who can help ensure that supply chains remain robust and resilient in the face of natural disasters.
Author : Victor Jaccarini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401732884
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Ecology of Mangrove and Related Ecosystems written by Victor Jaccarini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mangrove, seagrass and coral reef ecosystems are of paramount ecological importance but have already undergone great degradation, which is advancing at an alarming rate. If present trends continue, the natural resource basis of the economy and ecology of tropical coastal regions will soon be ruined. This was the unanimous conclusion of the 110 scientists from 23 countries who gathered in Mombasa, Kenya, for a Symposium on the ecology of these ecosystems. Mangrove forest systems yield large amounts of fish, crabs, prawns and oysters. They are also valuable sources of fuelwood, timber, tannin and other natural products. Their non-marketable value is of equal importance: stabilization of the coastline, an indispensable nursery ground for numerous marine species with commercial value, a natural filter maintaining the clarity of nearshore water, a home for resident and migratory birds and other wildlife. Many of the true mangrove flora and fauna are now endangered by the clearing of the mangroves. It has been shown that in many countries between 25 and 100% of the mangrove forest has been destroyed alraedy in the last twenty years. The international scientific assembly concluded that much can be done to stop the degradation of these damaged ecosystems and to rehabilitate them. But new techniques must be found to use them on a sustainable basis for long-term economic return and for the well-being of coastal human settlements and a healthy environment.
Author : Thomas F Malone
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Compendium of Meteorology written by Thomas F Malone and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book West Indian Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivan Ray Tannehill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Hurricanes, Their Nature and History, Particularly Those of the West Indies and the Southern Coasts of the United States written by Ivan Ray Tannehill and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gertrude Fallows Newnham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Hurricanes and Tropical Revolving Storms written by Gertrude Fallows Newnham and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book West Indies Pilot: The Lesser Antilles and the seacoast of Venezuela written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sailing Directions for the West Indies written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Naval Oceanographic Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sailing Directions for the West Indies written by United States. Naval Oceanographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book United States Coast Pilot, West Indies written by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
