Natural disasters books

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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries: Second International Conference, ISCRAM-med 2015, Tunis, Tunisia, October 28-30, 2015, Proceedings

Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management...

Author: Narjès Bellamine Ben Saoud ,  Carole Adam
ISBN: 9783319243986
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Information Systems for...  Read More >>

The Great Galveston Disaster Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times Including Vivid Descriptions of the Hurricane ..

The Great Galveston Disaster Containing a Full and Thrilling...

Author: Paul Lester
ISBN: 9781346015507
Format: Hardback
$61.97

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy

Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm...

Author: Michael J. Tougias ,  Douglas A. Campbell
ISBN: 9781476746647
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Synopsis coming soon.......  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: 9780415857406
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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

New Perspectives in Global Environmental Disasters

New Perspectives in Global Environmental Disasters

Author: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
ISBN: 9781785608094
Format: Paperback
$76.00

New Perspectives in Global Environmental Disasters is a collection of articles that represent high levels of scholarship...  Read More >>

The Great Galveston Disaster: Containing a Full and Thrilling Account of the Most Appalling Calamity of Modern Times Including Vivid Descriptions of the Hurricane

The Great Galveston Disaster: Containing a Full and...

Author: Paul Lester
ISBN: 9781345616149
Format: Hardback
$61.97

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Cities at Risk: Planning for and Recovering from Natural Disasters

Cities at Risk: Planning for and Recovering from Natural...

Author: Pierre Filion ,  Gary Sands
ISBN: 9781472441683
Format: Hardback
$284.00

As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity...  Read More >>

Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Integrated Solutions

Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards: Interdisciplinary...

Author: Paolo Gardoni ,  Colleen Murphy
ISBN: 9783319221250
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This volume investigates the interdisciplinary and cross-cutting challenges in the risk analysis of natural hazards....  Read More >>

Multihazard Simulation and Cyberinfrastructure

Multihazard Simulation and Cyberinfrastructure

Author: Andrea Donnellan ,  Charles Williams
ISBN: 9783034809443
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This issue contains 16 papers, presenting work on tsunami hazards, earthquakes, and related computational infrastructure....  Read More >>

Coping with Regional Vulnerability: Preventing and Mitigating Damages from Environmental Disasters

Coping with Regional Vulnerability: Preventing and Mitigating...

Author: Kiyoko Hagihara ,  Chisato Asahi
ISBN: 9784431551683
Format: Hardback
$145.17

We focus on regional vulnerability considering the fact that regional socioeconomic conditions determine the aspects...  Read More >>

Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship

Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in...

Author: Virgil Henry Storr ,  Stefanie Haeffele-Balch
ISBN: 9781137559715
Format: Paperback
$263.97

Explores the role of entrepreneurs in bringing about community rebound after disasters, with particular attention...  Read More >>

Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in Local Entrepreneurship

Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster: Lessons in...

Author: Virgil Henry Storr ,  Stefanie Haeffele-Balch
ISBN: 9781137286086
Format: Hardback
$343.17

Explores the role of entrepreneurs in bringing about community rebound after disasters, with particular attention...  Read More >>

Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences: 7th International Symposium

Submarine Mass Movements and their Consequences: 7th...

Author: Geoffroy Lamarche ,  Joshu Mountjoy
ISBN: 9783319209784
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This book is a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art studies of seafloor slope instability and their societal...  Read More >>

A Community-Based Flood Insurance Option

A Community-Based Flood Insurance Option

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ,  Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
ISBN: 9780309374682
Format: Paperback
$142.56

River and coastal floods are among the nation's most costly natural disasters. One component in the nation's approach...  Read More >>

Earthquakes and Their Impact on Society

Earthquakes and Their Impact on Society

Author: Sebastiano D'Amico
ISBN: 9783319217529
Format: Hardback
$422.37

Large earthquakes occurred in densely populated areas highlight the dramatic inadequacy of a massive portion of...  Read More >>

Managing Famine, Flood and Earthquake in China: Tianjin, 1958-85

Managing Famine, Flood and Earthquake in China: Tianjin,...

Author: Lauri Paltemaa (University of Turku, Finland)
ISBN: 9781138831391
Format: Hardback
$305.00

China suffers frequently from many types of natural disasters, which have affected the lives of many millions of...  Read More >>

Anticipatory Policymaking: When Government Acts to Prevent Problems and Why It Is So Difficult

Anticipatory Policymaking: When Government Acts to Prevent...

Author: Rob A. DeLeo
ISBN: 9781138813427
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Public policy analysts and political pundits alike tend to describe the policymaking process as a reactive sequence...  Read More >>

Rebuilding Community after Katrina: Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning Initiative

Rebuilding Community after Katrina: Transformative Education...

Author: Ken Reardon ,  John Forester
ISBN: 9781439911006
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Rebuilding Community after Katrina chronicles the innovative and ambitious partnership between Cornell University’s...  Read More >>

Understanding the drought impact of El Niao on the global agricultural areas: an assessment using FAO's Agricultural Stress Index (ASI)

Understanding the drought impact of El Niao on the global...

Author: Oscar Rojas ,  Food and Agriculture Organization
ISBN: 9789251086711
Format: Paperback
$38.50

The objective of this study is to enhance our understanding the El Nino phenomenon using FAO's Agricultural Stress...  Read More >>

Volcano Discoveries

Volcano Discoveries

Author: Tom Pfeiffer ,  Ingrid Smet
ISBN: 9781921517358
Format: Hardback
$40.00

One of the most eye-catching guides to the world's volcanoes ever published, packed with stunning photography. Introductory...  Read More >>

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