Natural disasters books

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Planning for a New Energy and Climate Future

Planning for a New Energy and Climate Future

Author: Scott Shuford ,  Suzanne Rynne
ISBN: 9781932364767
Format: Paperback
$158.40

Planners have an important role to play in helping communities meet energy needs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions,...  Read More >>

Deformation and Gravity Change: Indicators of Isostasy, Tectonics, Volcanism, and Climate Change, Vol. II

Deformation and Gravity Change: Indicators of Isostasy,...

Author: Detlef Wolf ,  Pablo J Gonz Lez
ISBN: 9783034601481
Format: Undefined
$65.87

<p>During the last decades, the monitoring and modelling of various geodynamic processes have gained ever increasing...  Read More >>

Recovering from Earthquakes: Response, Reconstruction and Impact Mitigation in India

Recovering from Earthquakes: Response, Reconstruction...

Author: Shirish Patel ,  Aromar Revi
ISBN: 9780415562973
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The End: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival

The End: Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and...

Author: Marq De Villiers
ISBN: 9780312603496
Format: Undefined
$42.21

In sparkling, insightful prose, the author explains how to understand natural calamities, prepare for their inevitable...  Read More >>

The Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea

Author: Alain Saliot
ISBN: 9783642064029
Format: Paperback
$789.36

Our current knowledge on chemicals in the Mediterranean Sea is presented.  Read More >>

Extreme Events in Nature and Society

Extreme Events in Nature and Society

Author: Sergio Albeverio ,  Volker Jentsch
ISBN: 9783642066795
Format: Paperback
$261.36

Presents unifying and distinguishing features of extreme events, including problems of understanding and modelling...  Read More >>

Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Northern Sea Route: Studies and Applications

Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Northern Sea Route:...

Author: Ola M. Johannessen ,  Vitali Alexandrov
ISBN: 9783642063787
Format: Paperback
$657.36

Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Northern Sea Route: Studies and Applications initially provides a history of the...  Read More >>

Physical Approach to Short-Term Wind Power Prediction

Physical Approach to Short-Term Wind Power Prediction...

Author: Matthias Lange ,  Ulrich Focken
ISBN: 9783642065088
Format: Paperback
$446.16

Offers an approach to the ultimate goal of the short-term prediction of the power output of winds farms. This book...  Read More >>

Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins: Linking Ecological, Economic and Social Constraints of Land Use and Conservation

Stability of Tropical Rainforest Margins: Linking Ecological,...

Author: Teja Tscharntke ,  Christoph Leuschner
ISBN: 9783642067747
Format: Paperback
$604.56

Contributes to an improved understanding of the processes that have destabilizing effects on ecological and socio-economic...  Read More >>

Environmental Photochemistry Part II

Environmental Photochemistry Part II

Author: Pierre Boule ,  Detlef Bahnemann
ISBN: 9783642055430
Format: Paperback
$974.16

This new volume on Environmental Photochemistry up-dates the previous edition with chapters on basic aspects including...  Read More >>

Aerosol Optics: Light Absorption and Scattering by Particles in the  Atmosphere

Aerosol Optics: Light Absorption and Scattering by Particles...

Author: Alexander A. Kokhanovsky
ISBN: 9783642062681
Format: Paperback
$419.76

Springer/Praxis have a successful mini program of books on various aspects of light scattering, and now have a journal...  Read More >>

Palladium Emissions in the Environment: Analytical Methods, Environmental Assessment and Health Effects

Palladium Emissions in the Environment: Analytical Methods,...

Author: Fathi Zereini ,  Friedrich Alt
ISBN: 9783642067235
Format: Paperback
$578.16

Presents research results related to various aspects of palladium emissions in the environment, as well as an assessment...  Read More >>

Earth System Science in the Anthropocene: Emerging Issues and Problems

Earth System Science in the Anthropocene: Emerging Issues...

Author: Eckart Ehlers ,  C. Moss
ISBN: 9783642065903
Format: Paperback
$472.56

Earth System Science in the Anthropocene aims to provide an in-depth perspective and update on special topics in...  Read More >>

Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

Tropical Rainforest Responses to Climatic Change

Author: John Flenley ,  Mark Bush
ISBN: 9783642062902
Format: Paperback
$630.96

The goal of this book is to provide a current overview of the impacts of climate change on tropical forests, to...  Read More >>

Oxidants and Antioxidant Defense Systems

Oxidants and Antioxidant Defense Systems

Author: Tilman Grune
ISBN: 9783642061257
Format: Paperback
$446.16

Oxidants and free radicals are connected with diseases such as cancer, diabetes, infectious, cardiovascular and...  Read More >>

Micro Cogeneration: Towards Decentralized Energy Systems

Micro Cogeneration: Towards Decentralized Energy Systems...

Author: Martin Pehnt ,  Martin Cames
ISBN: 9783642064982
Format: Paperback
$446.16

New technologies – such as renewable energy, combined heat and power (CHP), or “clean coal” technologies – are emerging....  Read More >>

Mississippi Angels In Hurricane Katrina

Mississippi Angels In Hurricane Katrina

Author: A P Call ,  Carolina E Call
ISBN: 9780578051062
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Hurricane Katrina is a story of survival and personal growth. People working together to restore the communities...  Read More >>

The Great Louisville Tornado of 1890

The Great Louisville Tornado of 1890

Author: Keven McQueen
ISBN: 9781540234926
Format: Hardback
$84.45

On March 27, 1890, a devastating storm moved over the Ohio River Valley, spawning dozens of deadly tornados. The...  Read More >>

Beyond 72 Hours How to Prepare for a Disaster and Stuff You Need to Know After a Disaster

Beyond 72 Hours How to Prepare for a Disaster and Stuff...

Author: John W Hill (Emeritus, University of Wisconsin--River Falls)
ISBN: 9781884979095
Format: Paperback
$36.83

A comprehensive, practical and sane strategy for preparing for and surviving any disaster. Many internet resources...  Read More >>

And They Said Foot & Mouth Didn't Affect Humans: Diary of a Slaughterman.

And They Said Foot & Mouth Didn't Affect Humans: Diary...

Author: Gordon Nixon
ISBN: 9781451528138
Format: Paperback
$118.80

This book relates the horrors and the heartbreak suffered by the farmers and their families as they watched their...  Read More >>

A Future In Flames, A

A Future In Flames, A

Author: Clode, Danielle
ISBN: 9780522857238
Format: Paperback
$71.28

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The Great Louisville Tornado of 1890

The Great Louisville Tornado of 1890

Author: Keven McQueen
ISBN: 9781596298927
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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A Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism and Survival in the Face of a Deadly Avalanche

A Wall of White: The True Story of Heroism and Survival...

Author: Jennifer Woodlief
ISBN: 9781416546948
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Originally published in hardcover in 2009.  Read More >>

New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences

New Frontiers in Integrated Solid Earth Sciences

Author: S.A.P.L. Cloetingh ,  Jorg Negendank
ISBN: 9789048127368
Format: Hardback
$340.56

As advances in the earth sciences lead to ever more advanced ways of modeling the complex processes in the solid...  Read More >>

This Borrowed Earth: Lessons from the Fifteen Worst Environmental Disasters Around the World

This Borrowed Earth: Lessons from the Fifteen Worst...

Author: Robert Emmet Hernan
ISBN: 9780230619838
Format: Paperback
$44.88

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