Natural disasters books

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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive...
Author: Annalee Newitz ISBN: 9780385535915 Format: Hardback	$71.15
Newitz's brilliantly speculative and hopeful work of popular science focuses attention on humanity's long history... Read More >>

The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake

The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti...
Author: David Homel , Dany Laferriere ISBN: 9781551524986 Format: Paperback	$22.99
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Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Social, Political and Environmental Issues

Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi: Social, Political...
Author: Richard Hindmarsh ISBN: 9780415527835 Format: Hardback	$305.00
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Cities at Risk: Living with Perils in the 21st Century

Cities at Risk: Living with Perils in the 21st Century...
Author: Helene Joffe , Tiziana Rossetto ISBN: 9789400761834 Format: Hardback	$290.37
The book therefore not only brings to light the ways that different cultures represent natural hazards but also... Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards

Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards
Author: Pedro Basabe , Peter T. Bobrowsky ISBN: 9789048186990 Format: Hardback	$1449.36
Few subjects share the true interdisciplinary dependency that characterizes the field of natural hazards. The Encyclopedia... Read More >>

The Lost Fens: England's Greatest Ecological Disaster

The Lost Fens: England's Greatest Ecological Disaster...
Author: Ian D. Rotherham ISBN: 9780752486994 Format: Paperback	$47.99
However, pause a while off main roads and consider place names and road names: Fenny Lane, The Withies, Commonside,... Read More >>

Asteroid Impact! Revelation Foretells Our End

Asteroid Impact! Revelation Foretells Our End
Author: Walter Parks ISBN: 9781484808801 Format: Paperback	$39.57
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth....Revelation 6:13 An asteroid will destroy mankind just as one destroyed... Read More >>

Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters
Author: Robert Smith (University of Oxford) ISBN: 9781484817445 Format: Paperback	$42.21
Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Tornado 3. Earthquake 4. Hurricane 5. Tsunami 6. Wildfire 7. Volcano Eruption... Read More >>

Flood and Fire

Flood and Fire
Author: Janet Elaine Smith ISBN: 9781935188513 Format: Paperback	$31.55
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Managing Extreme Climate Change Risks through Insurance

Managing Extreme Climate Change Risks through Insurance...
Author: W. J. Wouter Botzen (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam) ISBN: 9781107033276 Format: Hardback	$323.44
In recent years, the damage caused by natural disasters has increased worldwide. This book considers how the most... Read More >>

Managing Natural Catastrophies: Viable Systems to Prevent Human Tragedy - the Hawai'ian Example

Managing Natural Catastrophies: Viable Systems to Prevent...
Author: Anja Christina Reissberg ISBN: 9783593396217 Format: Paperback	$114.95
Natural disasters appear to be on the rise worldwide and their increasing frequency and far-reaching devastation... Read More >>

Natural Disasters: Prevention, Risk Factors & Management

Natural Disasters: Prevention, Risk Factors & Management...
Author: Biljana Raskovic , Svetomir Mrdja ISBN: 9781622576760 Format: Hardback	$516.78
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Oil Spills: Bibliographic Resources on Response, Restoration & Research Initiatives

Oil Spills: Bibliographic Resources on Response, Restoration...
Author: Tito Barale ISBN: 9781624176456 Format: Hardback	$839.52
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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Engineering under Uncertainty: Safety Assessment and Management (ISEUSAM - 2012)

Proceedings of the International Symposium on Engineering...
Author: Subrata Chakraborty , Gautam Bhattacharya ISBN: 9788132207566 Format: Paperback	$871.17
International Symposium on Engineering under Uncertainty: Safety Assessment and Management (ISEUSAM - 2012) is organized... Read More >>

Columbus and the Great Flood of 1913: The Disaster That Reshaped the Ohio Valley

Columbus and the Great Flood of 1913: The Disaster That...
Author: Conrade C Hinds ISBN: 9781540208514 Format: Hardback	$84.45
Beginning on Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913, Columbus and the Ohio Valley endured a downpour that would produce the... Read More >>

A Guide to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules

A Guide to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules
Author: Clyde Croft, SC , Christopher Kee (Senior Researcher, University of Aberdeen) ISBN: 9781139018135 Format: Undefined	$594.00
The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules are so pervasive and the consequences of the new version potentially so significant... Read More >>

Beyond Shelter after Disaster: Practice, Process and Possibilities

Beyond Shelter after Disaster: Practice, Process and...
Author: David Sanderson (Oxford Brookes University, England, UK) , Jeni Burnell (Oxford Brookes University, UK) ISBN: 9780415814232 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Beyond Shelter after Disaster critiques past approaches and explores future options for improving practice in one... Read More >>

Earthquake Hazard Evaluation

Earthquake Hazard Evaluation
Author: Eiichi Fukuyama , John B. Rundle ISBN: 9783034805872 Format: Paperback	$145.17
This book presents a series of numerical simulation studies of the earthquake generation process and the evaluation... Read More >>

Floods in a Megacity: Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

Floods in a Megacity: Geospatial Techniques in Assessing...
Author: Ashraf Dewan ISBN: 9789400758742 Format: Hardback	$290.37
This book uses geospatial techniques to evaluate hazards, risk and vulnerability at a metropolitan scale in a data-scarce... Read More >>

Colorado Natural Hazard Events: an overview of when and where nature impacted people in Colorado

Colorado Natural Hazard Events: an overview of when...
Author: Bill Highland ISBN: 9781482742510 Format: Paperback	$52.67
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The Human Side of Disaster

The Human Side of Disaster
Author: Thomas E. Drabek (University of Denver, USA) ISBN: 9781466506855 Format: Hardback	$221.00
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Tohoku, Japan, Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011: Survey of Coastal Structures

Tohoku, Japan, Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011: Survey...
Author: Lesley Ewing , Shigeo Takahashi ISBN: 9780784412695 Format: Paperback	$214.76
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Hurricane Ike Field Investigations: A Report of Field Operations from October 3-6, 2008

Hurricane Ike Field Investigations: A Report of Field...
Author: Hurricane Ike Field Assessment Team ISBN: 9780784411209 Format: Paperback	$217.35
Describes the environmental and infrastructure impacts of Hurricane Ike on the upper Texas coast. Most important,... Read More >>

The Discovery of Weather: Stephen Saxby, the Tumultuous Birth of Weather Forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869

The Discovery of Weather: Stephen Saxby, the Tumultuous...
Author: Jerry Lockett ISBN: 9781459500808 Format: Hardback	$64.99
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Human Casualties in Earthquakes: Progress in Modelling and Mitigation

Human Casualties in Earthquakes: Progress in Modelling...
Author: Robin Spence , Emily So ISBN: 9789400734784 Format: Paperback	$290.37
Assessment of human casualties in earthquakes has become a topic of vital importance for national and urban authorities... Read More >>

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