Taking us from the everyday numbers that govern our health and wellbeing to the statistics used to wield enormous power and influence, ‘The Number Bias’ counsels us to think more wisely.

Disaster by Choice demonstrates in a vivid and engaging way why big issues like the current climate crisis, where people are starting to accept that their actions can contribute to a collective result on a global scale, are just the tip of the iceberg. The Pgak’yau people in northern Thailand must survive solastalgia (mental distress from forced environmental change). 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. Geoscientist is the Fellowship magazine of the Geological Society: with news about science, people, the Society, features, reviews, opinion, letters and forthcoming events.We put ourselves in harm's way; we fail to take measures which we know would prevent disasters, no matter what the environment does. The thing that makes a natural hazard a disaster is when it impacts on human populations, taking assets or (worse yet) lives. Environmental psychology and philosophy take us from "solastalgia" to radical anticipation of a new era.

Information about the Geological Society’s internationally acclaimed books and journals for authors, editors, librarians and readers. This attitude distracts us from the real causes of disasters: humanity's decisions, as societies and as individuals. Damming Finland’s River Kemi wrecked livelihoods and people-land connections, exemplifying mental health impacts from human-caused environmental change. Discover and access geoscience information resources via one of the world’s premier Earth science libraries. This attitude distracts us from the real causes of disasters: humanity’s decisions, as societies and as individuals.As prospects for space travel and settlement expand, mental and physical health risks and disaster risks must be managed. Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, England and a Professor II at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway.

They tell us how we’re doing at school, how much we weigh, who might win an election and whether the economy is booming.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. effective human action that limits damage, such as managing flooding in Toronto and villages in Bangladesh, or wildfires in Colorado. 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.