00000nam a22000008i 4500 20260913094814.0 260919s2009 ii 00 0 eng d 9788190657907 Nancy Williams Fury of Natural Disasters / Nancy Williams. New Delhi Readworthy Press Corporation 2009. A natural disaster is the consequence of a natural hazard such as volcanic eruption, earthquake or landslide which affect human activities. Human vulnerability, exacerbated by the lack of planning or appropriate emergency management leads to financial, environmental and human losses. The resulting loss depends on the capacity of the population to support or resist the disaster. Human history is replete with various types of natural disasters, some recent being Tsunami in Indian Ocean, Sichuan earthquake, Orissa super cyclone, and Katrina hurricane in the U.S. This book describes the characteristics and magnitude of these deadly natural disasters, along-with the damages and causalities caused by them as well as their social, economic and environmental impacts. Also, it presents some moving stories survival and rehabilitation. Natural disasters. Disaster relief. Disaster victims--Rehabilitation--Government policy. Indian Ocean Tsunami,. Earthquakes--China--Sichuan Sheng. Cyclone Orissa,. Hurricane Katrina,. NATURE / Natural Disasters bisacsh