Natural disasters books

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Geo-disaster Modeling and Analysis: An SPH-based Approach

Geo-disaster Modeling and Analysis: An SPH-based Approach...

Author: Yu Huang ,  Zili Dai
ISBN: 9783662442104
Format: Hardback
$340.56

Through application of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method, this monograph mainly focuses on large...  Read More >>

Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats to Growing Global Populations

Countering 21st Century Social-Environmental Threats...

Author: Frederic R. Siegel
ISBN: 9783319096858
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This book brings together in a single volume a grand overview of solutions - political, economic, and scientific...  Read More >>

Hyogo Framework for Action and Urban Disaster Resilience

Hyogo Framework for Action and Urban Disaster Resilience...

Author: Yuki Matsuoka ,  Rajib Shaw
ISBN: 9781783509270
Format: Hardback
$184.00

In a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering as a result of natural hazards, local level disaster...  Read More >>

Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest

Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific...

Author: Sandi Doughton
ISBN: 9781570619427
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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FEMAs Disaster Relief Fund: Elements and Considerations

FEMAs Disaster Relief Fund: Elements and Considerations...

Author: Angelica Conner
ISBN: 9781633216303
Format: Paperback
$219.12

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Wildfires and Droughts: Federal Assistance and Funds

Wildfires and Droughts: Federal Assistance and Funds...

Author: Shirley M Costanzo
ISBN: 9781633216365
Format: Hardback
$415.14

Federal funding for wildfire management (WFM) is provided in the annual Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies...  Read More >>

Vulnerability and Risk Measurement of Climate Induced Disasters in Gujarat

Vulnerability and Risk Measurement of Climate Induced...

Author: Shital Shukla
ISBN: 9789332701069
Format: Hardback
$90.43

Risk and vulnerability measurement is the first necessary step for any serious contemplation of disaster reduction...  Read More >>

Desastres naturales: Clima violento

Desastres naturales: Clima violento

Author: Professor of Latin David West (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) ,  Steve Parker
ISBN: 9781500924485
Format: Paperback
$29.01

En Pakistán, inundaciones provocadas por un catastrófico monzón cubren una quinta parte del país. En Portugal, un...  Read More >>

Shit Doesn't Just Happen II: Challenger, Czar, Sultana, Mulholland, Kursk, Pearl Harbor, Alive!: The Gift of Failure

Shit Doesn't Just Happen II: Challenger, Czar, Sultana,...

Author: Bob Mayer
ISBN: 9781621252153
Format: Paperback
$23.73

Book Two in the Shit Doesn't Just Happen: The Gift of Failure Series by NY Times Bestselling Author, West Point...  Read More >>

Disasters and Vulnerable Populations: Evidence-Based Practice for the Helping Professions

Disasters and Vulnerable Populations: Evidence-Based...

Author: Lisa Baker, PhD, LCSW ,  Loretta Cormier, PhD, MA, BSN
ISBN: 9780826198457
Format: Paperback
$120.00

Vulnerable populations such as children, older adults, and people with disabilities are disproportionately affected...  Read More >>

Hyogo Framework for Action and Urban Disaster Resilience

Hyogo Framework for Action and Urban Disaster Resilience...

Author: Yuki Matsuoka ,  Rajib Shaw
ISBN: 9781783509287
Format: Electronic book text
$329.87

In a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering as a result of natural hazards, local level disaster...  Read More >>

Disaster Law

Disaster Law

Author: Kristian Cedervall Lauta
ISBN: 9780415705974
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Disasters and their management are today central to public and political agendas. Rather than being understood as...  Read More >>

Geotechnics for Catastrophic Flooding Events

Geotechnics for Catastrophic Flooding Events

Author: Susumu Iai
ISBN: 9781138027091
Format: Hardback
$525.00

Geotechnics for Catastrophic Flooding Events presents the keynote lectures (book, 264 pages) and keynote lectures...  Read More >>

Education for Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction

Education for Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk...

Author: Rajib Shaw ,  Yukihiko Oikawa
ISBN: 9784431550891
Format: Hardback
$290.37

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Disaster Risk Reduction Education (DRRE) have overlapping areas...  Read More >>

Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa

Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa

Author: Mark Pelling ,  Ben Wisner
ISBN: 9781138002050
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Dating Torrential Processes on Fans and Cones: Methods and Their Application for Hazard and Risk Assessment

Dating Torrential Processes on Fans and Cones: Methods...

Author: Michelle Schneuwly-Bollschweiler ,  Markus Stoffel
ISBN: 9789400799868
Format: Paperback
$316.77

This book provides a detailed overview on methods used for the dating of past torrential activity on fans and cones...  Read More >>

Integrated Risk Governance: Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters

Integrated Risk Governance: Science Plan and Case Studies...

Author: Peijun Shi ,  Carlo Jaeger
ISBN: 9783642447891
Format: Paperback
$290.37

""Integrated Risk Governance: Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters"" is the first book in the...  Read More >>

Earthquake Prediction by Seismic Electric Signals: The success of the VAN method over thirty years

Earthquake Prediction by Seismic Electric Signals: The...

Author: Mary S. Lazaridou-Varotsos
ISBN: 9783642437540
Format: Paperback
$498.96

This book presents the VAN earthquake prediction method. It details the theoretical model -based on solid state...  Read More >>

Shit Doesn't Just Happen: Titanic, Kegworth, Custer, Schoolhouse, Donner, Tulips, Apollo 13: The Gift of Failure

Shit Doesn't Just Happen: Titanic, Kegworth, Custer,...

Author: Bob Mayer
ISBN: 9781621252078
Format: Paperback
$23.73

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A Comparative Geography of China and the U.S.

A Comparative Geography of China and the U.S.

Author: Rudi Hartmann ,  Jing'ai Wang
ISBN: 9789401787918
Format: Hardback
$290.37

The book is the outcome of a unique venture: a team of Chinese geographers and a team of American geographers collaborated...  Read More >>

Performance-Based Seismic Engineering: Vision for an Earthquake Resilient Society

Performance-Based Seismic Engineering: Vision for an...

Author: Matej Fischinger
ISBN: 9789401788748
Format: Hardback
$448.77

The Bled workshops have traditionally produced reference documents providing visions for the future development...  Read More >>

Power Grid Down: Prepare, Survive, and Thrive After The Lights Go Out

Power Grid Down: Prepare, Survive, and Thrive After...

Author: Tara Dodrill
ISBN: 9781500945572
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Power Grid Down Second Edition - Discover why threats to the power grid put American life, as we know it, at total...  Read More >>

Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy

Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy

Author: Sophie Cunningham
ISBN: 9781922079367
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The sky at the top end is big and the weather moves like a living thing. You can hear it in thecracking air when...  Read More >>

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