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Repairing Domestic Climate Displacement: The Peninsula Principles

Repairing Domestic Climate Displacement: The Peninsula...
Author: Scott Leckie (Displacement Solutions, AUS) , Chris Huggins (University of Ottawa, Canada) ISBN: 9781138920385 Format: Hardback	$194.00
Climate change, sometimes thought of as a problem for the future, is already impacting people’s lives around the... Read More >>

Hazard Mitigation in Emergency Management

Hazard Mitigation in Emergency Management
Author: Tanveer Islam (Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Management, Jacksonville State University, AL, USA) , Jeffrey Ryan (Department of Emergency Management, Jacksonville State University, AL, USA) ISBN: 9780124201347 Format: Hardback	$263.87
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Risk, Uncertainty and Policy

Risk, Uncertainty and Policy
Author: Patrick Brown (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) , Anna Olofsson (Mid Sweden University, Oestersund, Sweden) ISBN: 9781138934566 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Policy-making has always involved uncertainty; however the presence of unknowns has become far more conspicuous... 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, (Mu ISBN: 9781340813659 Format: Hardback	$81.71
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization... Read More >>

Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf...
Author: Natasha Trethewey , Natasha Trethewey ISBN: 9780820349022 Format: Paperback	$60.59
Offers a very personal profile of Natasha Trethewey’s natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose... Read More >>

America's Great Storm: Leading through Hurricane Katrina

America's Great Storm: Leading through Hurricane Katrina...
Author: Haley Barbour , Jere Nash ISBN: 9781496805065 Format: Hardback	$66.00
A first-person account of the year following the worst natural disaster in American history Read More >>

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters, PT. 200-End, Revised as of July 1, 2015

Code of Federal Regulations, Title 33, Navigation and...
Author: Army Corps of Engineers (Us) , U S Office of the Federal Register ISBN: 9780160929137 Format: Paperback	$166.32
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The """Katrina Effect""": On the Nature of Catastrophe

The """Katrina Effect""": On the Nature of Catastrophe...
Author: William M. Taylor (University of Western Australia, Australia) , Michael P. Levine (University of Western Australia, Australia) ISBN: 9781472595171 Format: Paperback	$54.99
On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina’s storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke... Read More >>

A Study of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident Process: What caused the core melt and hydrogen explosion?

A Study of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident Process:...
Author: Michio Ishikawa ISBN: 9784431555421 Format: Paperback	$145.17
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Enhanced Surface Imaging of Crustal Deformation: Obtaining Tectonic Force Fields Using GPS Data

Enhanced Surface Imaging of Crustal Deformation: Obtaining...
Author: A. John Haines , Lada L. Dimitrova ISBN: 9783319215778 Format: Paperback	$145.17
This book takes an in depth look at a novel methodology for analyzing Global Positioning System (GPS) data to obtain... Read More >>

Early Warning for Geological Disasters: Scientific Methods and Current Practice

Early Warning for Geological Disasters: Scientific Methods...
Author: Friedemann Wenzel , Jochen Zschau ISBN: 9783642429408 Format: Paperback	$448.77
Early warning for geologic disasters is a subject of intensive research. Opening up the path for students and lecturers... Read More >>

A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka

A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis,...
Author: Meera Subramanian ISBN: 9781610395304 Format: Hardback	$49.99
A dazzling, intimate portrait of India's natural world at the brink of a precipice-imperiled by a surging population... Read More >>

Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake: Tsunami, Radioactive, and Reputational Damages

Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great...
Author: Toshiyuki Monma , Itsuo Goto ISBN: 9784431555575 Format: Hardback	$158.37
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Disaster and Crisis Management: Public Management Perspectives

Disaster and Crisis Management: Public Management Perspectives...
Author: Naim Kapucu (University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA) , Arjen Boin (Leiden University, The Netherlands) ISBN: 9781138935167 Format: Hardback	$284.00
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Recovery from Disaster

Recovery from Disaster
Author: Ian Davis , David Alexander ISBN: 9780415611688 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term... Read More >>

Financing Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Services in a Development Context: Global Overview and African Regional Perspective

Financing Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Services...
Author: Rajib Shaw , Al-Hamdou Dorsouma ISBN: 9781785602382 Format: Electronic book text	$303.47
This book presents an overview of financing for Disaster Risks Reduction (DDR) and climate services in the context... Read More >>

The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896

The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May...
Author: Julian Curzon ISBN: 9781298946829 Format: Hardback	$76.43
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization... Read More >>

Cities and Disasters

Cities and Disasters
Author: Davia Cox Downey ISBN: 9781482247404 Format: Paperback	$101.00
Cities and Disasters presents interdisciplinary and multinational perspectives on emergency management policy, economic... Read More >>

Business Continuity Planning: A Project Management Approach

Business Continuity Planning: A Project Management Approach...
Author: Ralph L. Kliem , Gregg D. Richie (P8, LLC, Orting, Washington, USA) ISBN: 9781482251784 Format: Hardback	$310.50
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Droughts in Agricultural Production: Monitoring & Management

Droughts in Agricultural Production: Monitoring & Management...
Author: G.G.S.N. Rao ISBN: 9788119072897 Format: Paperback	$266.51
Book will be useful to the students and research scholars of Agrometeorology, Meteorology and Geography and all... Read More >>

Computer Aided Seismic and Fire Retrofitting Analysis of Existing High Rise Reinforced Concrete Buildings

Computer Aided Seismic and Fire Retrofitting Analysis...
Author: Raja Rizwan Hussain , Muhammad Wasim ISBN: 9789401772969 Format: Hardback	$290.37
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Global Implications of Development, Disasters and Climate Change: Responses to Displacement from Asia Pacific

Global Implications of Development, Disasters and Climate...
Author: Susanna Price , Jane Singer (Kyoto University, Japan) ISBN: 9781138838178 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Storm Struck: When Supercharged Winds Slammed Northwest Michigan

Storm Struck: When Supercharged Winds Slammed Northwest...
Author: Bob Sutherland , Robert Campbell ISBN: 9781943995004 Format: Paperback	$56.76
SOFTCOVER WITH MATTE INTERIOR PAGES. STORM STRUCK: When Supercharged Winds Slammed Northwest Michigan It was... Read More >>

Why Does It Happen?: Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Why Does It Happen?: Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Author: Baby Professor ISBN: 9781682128961 Format: Paperback	$28.44
Earthquakes and volcano eruptions are natural disasters that are best faced prepared. Through this picture book,... Read More >>

Why Does It Happen?: Oceans, Seas, Lakes and Rivers

Why Does It Happen?: Oceans, Seas, Lakes and Rivers...
Author: Baby Professor ISBN: 9781682128978 Format: Paperback	$28.44
"Try teaching a young child about oceans, seas and rivers and other bodies of water and you will most certainly... Read More >>

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