Natural disasters books

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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 >>

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 >>

Flood Risk Reduction: Cutting-Edge Strategies and Innovative Technologies

Flood Risk Reduction: Cutting-Edge Strategies and Innovative...
Author: Shakeel Mahmood ISBN: 9783032122247 Format: Hardback	$362.22
This book features a collection of sections that examine the latest strategies and technologies for reducing flood... 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	$310.47
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Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment, Disaster, and Identity in Modern Mauritius

Cyclonic Lives in an Indian Ocean World: Environment,...
Author: Robert M. Rouphail ISBN: 9780821426777 Format: Hardback	$208.00
Cyclonic Lives explores how cyclones in Mauritius shape identity, memory, and power. Blending history, myth, and... 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 >>

Frozen Soil Engineering in Cold Regions

Frozen Soil Engineering in Cold Regions
Author: Qingbai Wu , Changjiang Tong ISBN: 9789819525263 Format: Hardback	$362.22
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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 >>

Advances in Rock Mechanics—Infrastructure Development, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 13th Asian Rock Mechanics Symposium (ARMS13)

Advances in Rock Mechanics—Infrastructure Development,...
Author: Debasis Deb , V. M. S. R. Murthy ISBN: 9789819542628 Format: Hardback	$517.47
This book presents state-of-the-art research in rock mechanics, tunnel/geotechnical engineering, addressing infrastructure,... 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	$465.72
In this book, the authors discuss the different climate events, extreme events, compound extreme events, use of... 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	$310.47
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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	$284.60
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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 >>

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	$646.85
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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	$646.85
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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 >>

Resilience and Recovery in Disaster and Emergency Management

Resilience and Recovery in Disaster and Emergency Management...
Author: Krzysztof Goniewicz (Professor, Polish Air Force University, Poland) , Amir Khorram-Manesh (Associate Professor, University of Gothenburg, Sweden) ISBN: 9780443405099 Format: Paperback	$316.80
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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: 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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