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The book "Geological Disasters in the Philippines" The July 1990 earthquake and the June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, was presented for the first time to the World Conference on Natural Disasters, held in Yokohama (Japan) May 23 1994, within the contribution of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the International Decade for Natural Disasters Reduction (IDNDR). The second edition of the book (2012), two decades after the 1990 and 1991 geological events in the Philippines, calls for a deep reflection on the seismicity along the werstern border of the Pacific Plate. The Japan...

The social, political and economic transition from 3.8 billion people in 1970 to 7 billion in 2011 and most probably 8 in 2025, represents a new phase in human history. Great changes are expected to occurr in the next two decades and radical decisions are to be taken accordingly: humanity is currently confronted with huge environmental impacts, the further deterioration of climate and the decline of biodiversity. To these phenomena, which have already occurred in the past, are now associted risks such as the decreasing hospitability of the biosphere, the on going financial ed economic global...