Natural disasters books

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Catastrophes: Views from Natural and Human Sciences

Catastrophes: Views from Natural and Human Sciences...

Author: Andreas Hoppe
ISBN: 9783319208459
Format: Hardback
$100.29

The book also reminds of Hamburg’s Flood Disaster in 1962, the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and other historical...  Read More >>

Year of the Fire: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910

Year of the Fire: The Story of the Great Fires of 1910...

Author: Stephen J Pyne (Arizona State University, USA) ,  John N MacLean
ISBN: 9780878425440
Format: Paperback
$42.24

In the summer of 1910, wildfires int eh Northern Rockies scorched millions of acres, darkened skies in New England,...  Read More >>

Survival: Prepper's Survival Guide - Hunting, Fishing, Canning, and Foraging

Survival: Prepper's Survival Guide - Hunting, Fishing,...

Author: Jack Campbell
ISBN: 9781523205547
Format: Paperback
$23.02

Be Confident and Independent in the Face of Any Danger! What is Prepping? Can You Be a Prepper? Are you ready...  Read More >>

Toward Resilient Communities: Examining the Impacts of Local Governments in Disasters

Toward Resilient Communities: Examining the Impacts...

Author: Christopher L. Atkinson
ISBN: 9781138194045
Format: Paperback
$56.99

In June 2011, the city of Minot, North Dakota sustained the greatest flood in its history. Rather than buckling...  Read More >>

Local Disaster Resilience: Administrative and Political Perspectives

Local Disaster Resilience: Administrative and Political...

Author: Ashley D. Ross
ISBN: 9781138194441
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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The Wind Engineers: Building a Hurricane-Safe House

The Wind Engineers: Building a Hurricane-Safe House...

Author: Jeff Klinkenberg
ISBN: 9781942852094
Format: Paperback
$15.71

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Geostatistical and Geospatial Approaches for the Characterization of Natural Resources in the Environment: Challenges, Processes and Strategies

Geostatistical and Geospatial Approaches for the Characterization...

Author: N. Janardhana Raju
ISBN: 9783319186627
Format: Hardback
$871.17

These proceedings of the IAMG 2014 conference in New Delhi explore the current state of the art and inform readers...  Read More >>

Resilience, Development and Global Change

Resilience, Development and Global Change

Author: Katrina Brown
ISBN: 9780415663472
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Resilience is currently infusing policy debates and public discourses, widely promoted as a normative goal in fields...  Read More >>

Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the Course of Human History

Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the...

Author: Marie Jones ,  Dr John M Savino
ISBN: 9798223248309
Format: Paperback
$42.21

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Hurricane Mitigation for the Built Environment

Hurricane Mitigation for the Built Environment

Author: Ricardo A. Alvarez
ISBN: 9781498714983
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Focusing on coastal regions affected by tropical cyclones, this book highlights vulnerability, natural hazards,...  Read More >>

Survival Is Easy: Just Don't Die

Survival Is Easy: Just Don't Die

Author: Thomas Woodsman
ISBN: 9781522881490
Format: Paperback
$15.81

Survival is the celebration of choosing life over death. We know we're going to die. We all die. But survival is...  Read More >>

Tsunami 2004: Unawatuna, Sri Lanka

Tsunami 2004: Unawatuna, Sri Lanka

Author: Tracey Lee
ISBN: 9781522793267
Format: Paperback
$35.88

Boxing Day, 2004, in Sri Lanka was a day when many people lost their lives in a 'freak act of nature'. Asia experienced...  Read More >>

Current topics on deformation monitoring and modelling, geodynamics and natural hazards

Current topics on deformation monitoring and modelling,...

Author: Pablo J. González ,  Gerardo Herrera
ISBN: 9783034809566
Format: Paperback
$145.17

In this regard, the session XIII “Deformationmodelling, Geodynamics and Natural Hazards” served to discuss modelling...  Read More >>

Hurricanes vs. Tornadoes vs Typhoons: Wind Systems of the World

Hurricanes vs. Tornadoes vs Typhoons: Wind Systems of...

Author: Baby Professor
ISBN: 9781682801185
Format: Paperback
$28.44

Allow your child to discover the similarities and differences of weather disturbances like hurricanes, typhoons...  Read More >>

Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk and Cultivating Resilience: Case Studies for a Multi-disciplinary Approach

Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk...

Author: Jeanette L. Drake ,  Yekaterina Y. Kontar
ISBN: 9783319201603
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This edited volume emphasizes risk and crisis communication principles and practices within the up-to the minute...  Read More >>

The Raging Sea: The Powerful Account of the Worst Tsunami in U.S. History

The Raging Sea: The Powerful Account of the Worst Tsunami...

Author: Dennis M Powers
ISBN: 9780692290446
Format: Paperback
$34.98

""The maritime series of Sea Ventures Press.""  Read More >>

Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the Course of Human History

Supervolcano: The Catastrophic Event That Changed the...

Author: Marie Jones ,  Dr John M Savino
ISBN: 9781519783059
Format: Paperback
$29.01

A revised and updated comprehensive examination of the supervolcanic eruption of Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia over...  Read More >>

Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction

Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction...

Author: Juha I. Uitto ,  Rajib Shaw
ISBN: 9784431550778
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book focuses on exploring the linkages between natural disasters and sustainable development at the global,...  Read More >>

Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent Publics

Remaking Participation: Science, Environment and Emergent...

Author: Jason Chilvers (University of East Anglia, Norwich) ,  Matthew Kearnes
ISBN: 9780415857390
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Changing relations between science and democracy – and controversies over issues such as climate change, energy...  Read More >>

Physics of Tsunamis

Physics of Tsunamis

Author: Boris W. Levin ,  Mikhail Nosov
ISBN: 9783319240350
Format: Hardback
$290.37

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Earthquake Time Bombs

Earthquake Time Bombs

Author: Robert Yeats (Oregon State University)
ISBN: 9781107085244
Format: Hardback
$77.60

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