Natural disasters books

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

This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood...  Read More >>

The first comprehensive book on the subject, this is an easy-to-follow guide to understanding how sinkholes form...  Read More >>

People on the Move in a Changing Climate  Read More >>

There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field. In...  Read More >>

Landslides in cold regions have different mechanisms from those in other areas, and comparatively few research efforts...  Read More >>

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From the author of The Forgotten 500 comes the heartbreaking, thrilling, and inspirational story of the impact of...  Read More >>

This report describes how the U.S. military responded to the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti, and it presents...  Read More >>

Subtitle on cover: The investigations, facts and lessons for process safety.  Read More >>

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Presents eighteen case studies of natural disasters from around the world. By comparing the impacts, it aims to...  Read More >>

The Tohoku earthquake on March 11, 2011, officially designated the “Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku, Japan Earthquake”...  Read More >>

Aunque percibimos naturalmente a través de nuestro cuerpo y nuestro subconsciente todos los peligros de nuestro...  Read More >>

This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium...  Read More >>

This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium...  Read More >>

Addresses the importance of resilience, discussed different challenges and approaches for building resilience, and...  Read More >>

On 30 January 1607 a huge wave, over 7 meters high, swept up the River Severn, flooding the land on either side....  Read More >>

When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake occurred off the coast of Chile on February 27, 2010, it affected 80 percent of...  Read More >>

This World Bank study brings together the forecast climate change impacts, costs vs. benefits of adaptation measures,...  Read More >>

This World Bank study brings together the forecast climate change impacts, costs vs. benefits of adaptation measures,...  Read More >>

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Landslides in sensitive clays represent a major hazard in the northern countries of the world such as Canada, Finland,...  Read More >>

The study of disaster statistics and disaster occurrence is a complicated interdisciplinary field involving the...  Read More >>