Natural disasters books

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Florida Sinkholes: Science and Policy

Florida Sinkholes: Science and Policy

Author: Robert Brinkmann
ISBN: 9781306166256
Format: Electronic book text
$131.87

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Flood

Flood

Author: John Withington
ISBN: 9781322182759
Format: Electronic book text
$76.43

From the flood that remade the earth in the Old Testament to the 1931 China floods that killed almost four million...  Read More >>

Hurricane

Hurricane

Author: Robert Bahr
ISBN: 9781481183642
Format: Paperback
$29.01

Spend a week with the small community of Dauphin Island, on the northern shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico, as approaching...  Read More >>

The Spatial Dimension of Risk: How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes

The Spatial Dimension of Risk: How Geography Shapes...

Author: Detlef Muller-Mahn
ISBN: 9781849710855
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Through its exploration of the spatial dimensions of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk,...  Read More >>

Response of Flood Events to Land Use and Climate Change: Analyzed by Hydrological and Statistical Modeling in Barcelonnette, France

Response of Flood Events to Land Use and Climate Change:...

Author: Azadeh Ramesh
ISBN: 9789400755260
Format: Hardback
$448.77

This book is an original and novel contribution to flood hazard assessment, climate change and land use change and...  Read More >>

Earthquake and Atmospheric Hazards: Preparedness Studies

Earthquake and Atmospheric Hazards: Preparedness Studies...

Author: Mohammed I. El-Sabh ,  Srinivasan Venkatesh
ISBN: 9789401061131
Format: Paperback
$145.17

Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Sixth International...  Read More >>

Troy and the Great Flood of 1913

Troy and the Great Flood of 1913

Author: Troy Historical Society
ISBN: 9780738590592
Format: Paperback
$58.05

The rain began to fall on Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913. In Troy, 15 people lost their lives during the flood due...  Read More >>

The 1953 Essex Flood Disaster: The People's Story

The 1953 Essex Flood Disaster: The People's Story

Author: Patricia Rennoldson Smith
ISBN: 9780752465418
Format: Paperback
$27.99

On a stormy evening in January 1953, Peggy Morgan kissed her five-year-old son goodnight, blissfully unaware of...  Read More >>

Earthquake-Induced Landslides: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Earthquake-Induced Landslides, Kiryu, Japan, 2012

Earthquake-Induced Landslides: Proceedings of the International...

Author: Keizo Ugai ,  Hiroshi Yagi
ISBN: 9783642322372
Format: Hardback
$871.17

The Japan Landslide Society (JLS) therefore organized a meeting fully dedicated to the research area of earthquake...  Read More >>

Floods in a Changing Climate: Risk Management

Floods in a Changing Climate: Risk Management

Author: Slobodan P. Simonović (University of Western Ontario)
ISBN: 9781139088404
Format: Undefined
$435.60

This book presents flood risk management as a framework for identifying and assessing climate-related risks and...  Read More >>

Disaster!: A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes

Disaster!: A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues,...

Author: John Withington
ISBN: 9781620871812
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Tune into the news today, and one would think that human beings were at risk of being wiped from the face of the...  Read More >>

The Politics and Policies of Relief, Aid and Reconstruction: Contrasting approaches to disasters and emergencies

The Politics and Policies of Relief, Aid and Reconstruction:...

Author: Fulvio Attina
ISBN: 9781137026729
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Disaster policies present a new challenge to the practitioners and students of global politics; this book explains...  Read More >>

Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Disaster Analysis

Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Disaster Analysis

Author: V. Pisarenko ,  M. Rodkin
ISBN: 9789400732858
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book presents new approaches to seismic risk estimation and forecasting the damage caused by all types of earthquakes....  Read More >>

Aria, acqua, terra e fuoco - Volume II: Uragani, alluvioni, tsunami e asteroidi

Aria, acqua, terra e fuoco - Volume II: Uragani, alluvioni,...

Author: Fabio Vittorio De Blasio
ISBN: 9788847025431
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Si tratta delle estinzioni di massa, episodi in cui la biosfera è cambiata in maniera improvvisa e drammatica a...  Read More >>

Essential Bushfire Safety Tips

Essential Bushfire Safety Tips

Author: Joan Webster OAM
ISBN: 9780643107809
Format: Paperback
$29.95

Lists approximately 3000 tips to help you make an effective bushfire plan.  Read More >>

Agent-Based Simulation of Vulnerability Dynamics: A Case Study of the German North Sea Coast

Agent-Based Simulation of Vulnerability Dynamics: A...

Author: Cilli Sobiech
ISBN: 9783642323645
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This thesis constitutes an extraordinary innovative research approach in transferring the concepts and methods of...  Read More >>

Resilience and Urban Risk Management

Resilience and Urban Risk Management

Author: Damien Serre ,  Bruno Barroca
ISBN: 9780415621472
Format: Hardback
$221.00

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Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could End

Megacatastrophes!: Nine Strange Ways the World Could...

Author: David Darling ,  Dirk Schulze-Makuch
ISBN: 9781851689477
Format: Paperback
$17.99

Discover the mind-boggling science of the coming apocalypse!  Read More >>

The Culture of Disaster

The Culture of Disaster

Author: Marie-Helene Huet
ISBN: 9780226358215
Format: Hardback
$92.95

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Erdbeben: Eine Einführung für Geowissenschaftler und Bauingenieure

Erdbeben: Eine Einführung für Geowissenschaftler und...

Author: Götz Schneider ,  Gotz Schneider
ISBN: 9783827430809
Format: Paperback
$98.30

Jahr für Jahr verursachen Erdbeben empfindliche Personen- und Sachschäden. Diese Bedrohung kann man nur beherrschen,...  Read More >>

Fallout from Fukushima

Fallout from Fukushima

Author: Richard Broinowski
ISBN: 9781922070166
Format: Paperback
$27.99

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Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami,...

Author: Lucy Birmingham ,  David McNeill
ISBN: 9780230341869
Format: Hardback
$46.55

Blending history, science, and gripping storytelling, Strong in the Rain brings the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that...  Read More >>

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