Natural disasters books

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

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

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

This book features a collection of sections that examine the latest strategies and technologies for reducing flood...  Read More >>

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

Cyclonic Lives explores how cyclones in Mauritius shape identity, memory, and power. Blending history, myth, and...  Read More >>

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

This book covers an overview of the distribution of permafrost in China and its engineering properties as well as...  Read More >>

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

This book presents state-of-the-art research in rock mechanics, tunnel/geotechnical engineering, addressing infrastructure,...  Read More >>

In this book, the authors discuss the different climate events, extreme events, compound extreme events, use of...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resilience and Recovery in Disaster and Emergency Management  Read More >>

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

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