Natural disasters books

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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 >>

Remembering Future Disasters: Temporal Ecologies in the Peruvian Andes

Remembering Future Disasters: Temporal Ecologies in...

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

An ethnographic exploration of the multiple ways in which disasters and time are co-constituted in the Peruvian...  Read More >>

Surviving White Island: An inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery after surviving the New Zealand volcanic eruption

Surviving White Island: An inspiring memoir of physical...

Author: Kelsey Waghorn
ISBN: 9781775542919
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Surviving the unsurvivable. Healing from the unhealable. This is an inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery,...  Read More >>

Advanced Landslide Susceptibility Modeling: Effects on Sustainability and Human and Economic Welfare

Advanced Landslide Susceptibility Modeling: Effects...

Author: R. M. Yuvaraj ,  M. V. Karunambigai
ISBN: 9783032144843
Format: Hardback
$422.37

This contributed volume covers a broad range of topics related to landslide susceptibility including modeling, related...  Read More >>

Wicked Weather: Natural Disasters that Changed History

Wicked Weather: Natural Disasters that Changed History...

Author: professor Alexander Gates (Rutgers University, USA)
ISBN: 9781538198933
Format: Hardback
$60.00

Looks at the most significant natural disasters in Earth’s history and considers whether we can prevent them from...  Read More >>

Climate and Natural Hazard Risks

Climate and Natural Hazard Risks

Author: Peter Sammonds (Professor of Geophysics and Climate Risks, University College London, UK) ,  Lisa Guppy (Lecturer in Global Humanitarian Studies, University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780443273681
Format: Paperback
$396.00

Climate and Natural Hazard Risks is an in-depth examination of the physical, environmental, economic, and social...  Read More >>

Climate Extremes and Emerging Solutions: Data-Driven Insights and Geospatial Techniques

Climate Extremes and Emerging Solutions: Data-Driven...

Author: Vikas Poonia ,  Somil Swarnkar
ISBN: 9783032144560
Format: Hardback
$580.77

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Natural Disasters in the Himalaya: Case Studies, Impacts, and Responses

Natural Disasters in the Himalaya: Case Studies, Impacts,...

Author: Vishwambhar Prasad Sati
ISBN: 9783032173744
Format: Hardback
$369.57

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of natural disasters—both terrestrial and hydrological—specifically...  Read More >>

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
$422.37

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

International Conference on Civil Engineering Innovative Development in Engineering Advances (ICC IDEA - 2025) Volume 3: Next-Generation Composite Structures, Transportation, Structural Health Monitoring, and Disaster Resilience

International Conference on Civil Engineering Innovative...

Author: Md. Abdul Mannan ,  Hemant S.Chore
ISBN: 9789819520138
Format: Hardback
$791.97

This book compiles select proceedings from the International Conference on Civil Engineering Innovative Development...  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 >>

Greensburg: Susanne Walström

Greensburg: Susanne Walström

Author: Susanne Walström
ISBN: 9783735610508
Format: Hardback
$105.00

In Greensburg, Susanne Walström returns to a Kansas town nearly destroyed by a 2007 tornado. Decades after first...  Read More >>

Advances in Rock Mechanics—Infrastructure Development, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 13th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium (ARMS13)

Advances in Rock Mechanics—Infrastructure Development,...

Author: Debasis Deb ,  V. M.S.R. Murthy
ISBN: 9789819542543
Format: Hardback
$791.97

This book provides an integrated view of underground and geotechnical engineering, combining experimental, numerical,...  Read More >>

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 >>

Blueprint to Reverse Climate Change: Concise, Clear Ideas and Actions

Blueprint to Reverse Climate Change: Concise, Clear...

Author: Dan Paul
ISBN: 9781953104410
Format: Paperback
$26.40

Climate change won't slow down on its own, and neither should you. This book cuts through the noise and gives you...  Read More >>

International Conference on Tsunami Risk Reduction and Resilience

International Conference on Tsunami Risk Reduction and...

Author: Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh ,  N. Vinod Chandra Menon
ISBN: 9783032096203
Format: Hardback
$659.97

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, in collaboration...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary Studies on Global Disasters

Interdisciplinary Studies on Global Disasters

Author: İsmet Guney ,  Mehmet Ali Celik
ISBN: 9798337362755
Format: Paperback
$501.60

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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
$580.77

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

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