Natural disasters books

This book introduces an innovative three-tier architecture approach for modeling the dynamics and consequences of...  Read More >>

This is the full color edition of the historical flooding from the Susquehanna River, which occurred in our valley...  Read More >>

Over the last decades, the rapid growth of the world population has led to a large number of emerging megacities....  Read More >>

This is the first book on disaster diplomacy. Disaster-politics interactions have been studied for decades, but...  Read More >>

The scope of disasters ranges from man-made emergency to natural calamity, from a kitchen grease fire to a hurricane...  Read More >>

In just over a week, a group of unpaid professional and citizen journalists who met on Twitter created a book to...  Read More >>

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Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Commentary and analysis typically focused on what...  Read More >>

Current knowledge and state-of-the-art developments in topics related to the seismic performance and risk assessment...  Read More >>

This book deals with the theory and the applications of a new time domain, termed natural time domain, that has...  Read More >>

This book provides a unique perspective on the destruction - both natural and human-caused - of coral reef ecosystems....  Read More >>

"Intends to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a ""perfect storm"", but a tragedy of our own making - and one that...  Read More >>

Disaster management, which involves prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and rehabilitation efforts, has...  Read More >>

An eye-of-the-hurricane view of storm chasing from the star of the Discovery Channel hit series Storm Chasers....  Read More >>

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The Asian tsunami in December 2004 was reported on exhaustively all around the world. But this is the first full-length...  Read More >>

In Fixing Haiti, some of the world's leading experts on that troubled nation examine the challenges it faces, the...  Read More >>

Natural disasters shape lives and economies through loss and devastation. In 2008, natural disasters killed more...  Read More >>

This leads to gravity waves in bounded domains of constant depth, Kelvin, Poincaré and Sverdrup waves, reflection...  Read More >>

Experts agree everyone will have to confront at least one type of natural or man-made disaster in their lifetime....  Read More >>

The Tsunami from the 1960 Chilean earthquake affected the entire Pacific Ocean and motivated the international coordination...  Read More >>

Since 2008, the Global Center of Excellence (COE) at Kyoto University, Japan, has been engaged in a program called...  Read More >>

Discusses the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) the multi-agency federal program to reduce the...  Read More >>

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The role of fire in Australia's ecosystems, and how to manage fire both for safety and for diversity.  Read More >>