Natural disasters books

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Gender, Climate Change and Disaster Resilience: An Asia-Pacific Perspective

Gender, Climate Change and Disaster Resilience: An Asia-Pacific...

Author: Mausumi Bhattacharyya ,  Rajib Shaw
ISBN: 9789819561872
Format: Hardback
$310.47

Gender plays a crucial role in shaping the vulnerabilities and resilience of communities in the face of disaster...  Read More >>

Extreme Climate Events, Loss and Damage in Africa: Resilience and Adaptation

Extreme Climate Events, Loss and Damage in Africa: Resilience...

Author: Ayansina Ayanlade ,  Mary Nyasimi
ISBN: 9783032116772
Format: Hardback
$465.72

This book highlights empirical evidence of how African continent is confronting extreme climate events, focusing...  Read More >>

Global Drought and Sustainability

Global Drought and Sustainability

Author: Ali Fares (Endowed Professor of Water Security and Water-Energy-Food Nexus, USA)
ISBN: 9780443446252
Format: Paperback
$462.00

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From Hazard to Disaster: The Vulnerability of People in South Asia

From Hazard to Disaster: The Vulnerability of People...

Author: Pradeep Kumar Parida
ISBN: 9781041273592
Format: Paperback
$108.65

This volume explores the complex relationships between hazard, vulnerability and disaster for steering the challenges...  Read More >>

Critical Spatial Thinking and Extreme Events: Tools for Multiple Disciplines

Critical Spatial Thinking and Extreme Events: Tools...

Author: Simonetta Armondi ,  Gloria Pessina
ISBN: 9783032188748
Format: Paperback
$100.29

This open access book explores the complexity of socio-environmental extreme events and the possible ways to cope...  Read More >>

From Hazard to Disaster: The Vulnerability of People in South Asia

From Hazard to Disaster: The Vulnerability of People...

Author: Pradeep Kumar Parida
ISBN: 9781041273585
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This volume explores the complex relationships between hazard, vulnerability and disaster for steering the challenges...  Read More >>

Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic Rush to Rebuild L.A.

Torched: How a City Was Left to Burn, and the Olympic...

Author: Jonathan Vigliotti
ISBN: 9781668219034
Format: Hardback
$59.99

CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti’s searing firsthand account of the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the failures...  Read More >>

Echoes of Ash: Life in Herculaneum

Echoes of Ash: Life in Herculaneum

Author: Adrian Murdoch
ISBN: 9781803999913
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, discover Herculaneum: a remarkable window into the ancient...  Read More >>

The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume 1: Cadomian Cycle

The Geology of Iberia: A Geodynamic Approach: Volume...

Author: J. Javier Álvaro ,  Cecilio Quesada
ISBN: 9783030103972
Format: Hardback
$465.72

Pursuing a new global approach, this unique book provides an updated review of the geology of Iberia and its continental...  Read More >>

Earthquake Source Physics

Earthquake Source Physics

Author: Teruo Yamashita ,  Nobuki Kame
ISBN: 9789819535088
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book provides an introduction to earthquake source physics, at the heart of modern earthquake seismology. It...  Read More >>

Monetizing and Localizing Foreign Aid: Evolving Paths and the Professionals Treading Them

Monetizing and Localizing Foreign Aid: Evolving Paths...

Author: Molly Sundberg
ISBN: 9781032908670
Format: Hardback
$401.06

This book investigates the uneasy coexistence of two current policy pathways within international development: to...  Read More >>

Film and the Natural History of Destruction: Walter Benjamin for the Anthropocene

Film and the Natural History of Destruction: Walter...

Author: Alan Wright
ISBN: 9789463720564
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Film and the Natural History of Destruction explores the interface between film, memory and ecological thought....  Read More >>

India and imperial vulnerability: Knowledge, aesthetics and subjects in British discourses of disaster, 1763-1939

India and imperial vulnerability: Knowledge, aesthetics...

Author: Pramod K Nayar
ISBN: 9781526178114
Format: Hardback
$194.99

This is a study of disasters cyclones, earthquakes and famines in British India, 1770-1934, through a reading...  Read More >>

Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering of Concrete Dams

Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering of Concrete...

Author: M Amin Hariri-Ardebili ,  Rocio L Segura
ISBN: 9783032141439
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The seismic safety of dams is a critical concern worldwide, especially in seismically active regions where aging...  Read More >>

Slope Monitoring for Early Warning of Rapid Landslides: Mitigating Rainfall-induced Disasters

Slope Monitoring for Early Warning of Rapid Landslides:...

Author: Ikuo Towhata (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan) ,  Lin Wang (Chuo-Kaihatsu Inc)
ISBN: 9781032647319
Format: Hardback
$336.38

Towhata and coauthors draw on their decades of research and innovation to describe an inexpensive and easy to interpret...  Read More >>

Riverscape Dynamics and Contemporary Hazards

Riverscape Dynamics and Contemporary Hazards

Author: Mery Biswas (Presidency University, India) ,  Adrija Raha (Presidency University, India)
ISBN: 9781032898674
Format: Hardback
$250.96

This book combines all the morpho-hydro-sediment interactive processes to explain the channel planform with the...  Read More >>

Remembering Future Disasters: Temporal Ecologies in the Peruvian Andes

Remembering Future Disasters: Temporal Ecologies in...

Author: Tomás Usón
ISBN: 9783837678895
Format: Paperback
$99.95

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Reimagining Disasters: Voices in the Pluriverse

Reimagining Disasters: Voices in the Pluriverse

Author: JC Gaillard (Auckland University, NZ.) ,  Ksenia Chmutina
ISBN: 9781032632773
Format: Paperback
$108.65

Reimagining Disasters builds on the momentum gained by the 2019 Disaster Studies Manifesto, which aims to inspire...  Read More >>

Reimagining Disasters: Voices in the Pluriverse

Reimagining Disasters: Voices in the Pluriverse

Author: JC Gaillard (Auckland University, NZ.) ,  Ksenia Chmutina
ISBN: 9781032632582
Format: Hardback
$401.06

Reimagining Disasters builds on the momentum gained by the 2019 Disaster Studies Manifesto, which aims to inspire...  Read More >>

Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2025: Rising Heat, Rising Risk: Policy Pathways for Regional Resilience

Asia Pacific Disaster Report 2025: Rising Heat, Rising...

Author: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific 
ISBN: 9789211544558
Format: Paperback
$124.20

Dissecting the rising threat of extreme heat in the Asia-Pacific, the report examines its profound effects on communities,...  Read More >>

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