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Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters: The Perspective from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi: Summary of a Workshop

Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters:...
Author: The National Academies , Disasters Roundtable ISBN: 9780309215275 Format: Paperback	$95.04
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Catastrophic Gumbo: Part Two: the International Series

Catastrophic Gumbo: Part Two: the International Series...
Author: Alvin JacQues ISBN: 9781426969133 Format: Paperback	$39.60
From avalanches to volcanoes, and from the Gulf Oil Spill to bridge collapses, author Alvin JacQues explores the... Read More >>

Energy and the Wealth of Nations: Understanding the Biophysical Economy

Energy and the Wealth of Nations: Understanding the...
Author: Charles A. S. Hall , Kent A. Klitgaard ISBN: 9781441993977 Format: Hardback	$261.36
Concepts such as energy return on investment (EROI) provide powerful insights into the real balance sheets that... Read More >>

Catastrophic Gumbo: Part Two: the International Series

Catastrophic Gumbo: Part Two: the International Series...
Author: Alvin JacQues ISBN: 9781426969140 Format: Hardback	$66.00
From avalanches to volcanoes, and from the Gulf Oil Spill to bridge collapses, author Alvin JacQues explores the... Read More >>

Catastrophic Gumbo: Part I: the Signature Series

Catastrophic Gumbo: Part I: the Signature Series
Author: ALVIN JACQUES ISBN: 9781426969102 Format: Paperback	$39.60
There's no doubt that Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating weather events to hit the United States-costing... Read More >>

Natural Processes and Human Impacts: Interactions between Humanity and the Environment

Natural Processes and Human Impacts: Interactions between...
Author: Sergey M. Govorushko ISBN: 9789400714236 Format: Hardback	$340.56
It covers both sides of this delicate balancing act, explaining how various natural processes influence humanity,... Read More >>

Catastrophic Gumbo: Part I: the Signature Series

Catastrophic Gumbo: Part I: the Signature Series
Author: ALVIN JACQUES ISBN: 9781426969119 Format: Hardback	$66.00
There's no doubt that Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating weather events to hit the United States-costing... Read More >>

Stimulus for Human and Societal Dynamics in the Prevention of Catastrophes

Stimulus for Human and Societal Dynamics in the Prevention...
Author: A. Avagyan , D. L. Barry ISBN: 9781607507376 Format: Hardback	$517.44
Presents 34 papers, arising from the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) held in Yerevan, Armenia, in October... Read More >>

Contagion of the New Millennium: H5N1 - Surviving the Avian Flu Virus

Contagion of the New Millennium: H5N1 - Surviving the...
Author: Victor Chase ISBN: 9781466322851 Format: Paperback	$23.63
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Crisis in the Gulf

Crisis in the Gulf
Author: Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff , Paul Rosenfeld ISBN: 9781118062746 Format: Hardback	$462.00
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Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America

Coastal Marine Ecosystems of Latin America
Author: U. Seeliger , B. Kjerfve ISBN: 9783642086571 Format: Paperback	$472.56
Coastal and marine ecosystems, some severely degraded, other still pristine, control rich resources of inshore environments... Read More >>

Pelagic Nutrient Cycles: Herbivores as Sources and Sinks

Pelagic Nutrient Cycles: Herbivores as Sources and Sinks...
Author: Tom Andersen ISBN: 9783642082795 Format: Paperback	$419.76
Outstanding examples of predictive ecology are Vollenweider's models on the relationship between phosphorus load... Read More >>

Fire Management in the American West: Forest Politics and the Rise of Megafires

Fire Management in the American West: Forest Politics...
Author: Mark Hudson ISBN: 9781607320883 Format: Hardback	$145.20
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Global Catastrophic Risks

Global Catastrophic Risks
Author: Nick Bostrom (Department of Philosophy, Oxford University) , Milan M. Cirkovic (Astronomical Observatory, Belgrade) ISBN: 9780199606504 Format: Paperback	$57.95
A Global Catastrophic Risk is one that has the potential to inflict serious damage to human well-being on a global... Read More >>

The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937

The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster...
Author: David Welky (University of Central Arkansas) ISBN: 9780226887166 Format: Hardback	$49.95
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Aralkum - a Man-Made Desert: The Desiccated Floor of the Aral Sea (Central Asia)

Aralkum - a Man-Made Desert: The Desiccated Floor of...
Author: Siegmar-W. Breckle , Walter Wucherer ISBN: 9783642211164 Format: Hardback	$472.56
Having been the fourth largest lake on the globe roughly 50 years ago, today the Aral Sea no longer exists. The... Read More >>

Hurricane Story

Hurricane Story
Author: Jennifer Shaw ISBN: 9780984457632 Format: Hardback	$32.99
An odyssey of exile, birth and return told through dreamlike and sometimes haunting images of toys and dolls. Read More >>

Measuring Vulnerability in Developing Countries: New Analytical Approaches

Measuring Vulnerability in Developing Countries: New...
Author: Wim Naude (Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands) , Amelia Santos-Paulino (UNCTAD, Switzerland) ISBN: 9780415685948 Format: Hardback	$284.00
Advancing global development need to go beyond simple measures of poverty towards measuring and understanding human... Read More >>

Light Absorption in Sea Water

Light Absorption in Sea Water
Author: Bogdian Wozniak , Jerzy Dera ISBN: 9781441921499 Format: Paperback	$525.36
This book provides a detailed description of light absorption and absorbents in seawaters with respect to provenance,... Read More >>

Natural Hazard Mitigation Policy: Implementation, Organizational Choice, and Contextual Dynamics

Natural Hazard Mitigation Policy: Implementation, Organizational...
Author: Daniel J. Alesch , Lucy A. Arendt ISBN: 9789400722347 Format: Hardback	$340.56
The book weaves together several threads essential to understanding the effectiveness of public policies intended... Read More >>

Baltic Coastal Ecosystems: Structure, Function and Coastal Zone Management

Baltic Coastal Ecosystems: Structure, Function and Coastal...
Author: Gerald Schernewski , Ulrich Schiewer ISBN: 9783642076909 Format: Paperback	$446.16
Between November 20 and 23, 2000, the workshop ""Baltic Coastal Ecosystems - Structure, Function and Coastal Zone... Read More >>

Dealing with Disaster: Public Management in Crisis Situations

Dealing with Disaster: Public Management in Crisis Situations...
Author: Saundra K. Schneider ISBN: 9780765622433 Format: Paperback	$92.99
Now updated with examples through 2010, this classic study examines the disruptive effects of disasters on patterns... Read More >>

Dealing with Disaster: Public Management in Crisis Situations

Dealing with Disaster: Public Management in Crisis Situations...
Author: Saundra K. Schneider ISBN: 9780765622426 Format: Hardback	$326.00
Now updated with examples through 2010, this classic study examines the disruptive effects of disasters on patterns... Read More >>

Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests

Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug...
Author: Andrew Nikiforuk ISBN: 9781553655107 Format: Paperback	$32.99
Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation. Read More >>

Satellite Geology and Photogeomorphology: An Instructional Manual for Data Integration

Satellite Geology and Photogeomorphology: An Instructional...
Author: Lambert A. Rivard ISBN: 9783642206078 Format: Mixed media product	$340.56
This is the first book to deal with the systematic integration of airphotos and satellite images in geological terrain... Read More >>

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