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Geophysical Hazards: Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Awareness

Geophysical Hazards: Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Awareness...
Author: Tom Beer ISBN: 9789048132355 Format: Hardback	$340.56
The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) was established as a means of raising worldwide public and political... Read More >>

Answers to Questions About Substantially Damaged Buildings

Answers to Questions About Substantially Damaged Buildings...
Author: Emergency Management Agency Federal ISBN: 9780160852176 Format: Paperback	$18.48
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Disaster!: A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues, and Other Catastrophes

Disaster!: A History of Earthquakes, Floods, Plagues,...
Author: John Withington ISBN: 9781602397491 Format: Hardback	$65.87
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Second Treatise on the Decrease of Water in Springs, Creeks, and Rivers: Contemporaneously with an Increase in Height of Floods in Cultivated Countries

Second Treatise on the Decrease of Water in Springs,...
Author: Gustav Wex , Godfrey Weitzel ISBN: 9781145573918 Format: Paperback	$46.86
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing... Read More >>

When the Planet Rages: Natural Disasters, Global Warming and the Future of the Earth

When the Planet Rages: Natural Disasters, Global Warming...
Author: Charles Officer , Jake Page ISBN: 9780195377019 Format: Paperback	$26.95
In New England, 1816 was called the Year Without a Summer. Crops failed throughout America and, in Western Europe,... Read More >>

A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save the World and Create Prosperity

A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How We Can Save the...
Author: Nicholas Stern ISBN: 9780099524052 Format: Paperback	$32.99
droughts occur in Australia and Darfur... Further substantial climate change is unavoidable and the risks to the... Read More >>

Desertification and Its Control in China

Desertification and Its Control in China
Author: Longjun Ci , Xiaohui Yang ISBN: 9783642018688 Format: Hardback	$736.56
Summarizing the achievements in desertification control in China over the past 50 years, this book discusses desertification... Read More >>

Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins: A Global Synthesis

Carbon and Nutrient Fluxes in Continental Margins: A...
Author: Kon-Kee Liu , Larry Atkinson ISBN: 9783540927341 Format: Hardback	$446.16
This book is a product of the joint JGOFS (Joint Global Ocean Flux Study)/LOICZ (Land–Ocean Interactions in the... Read More >>

Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters: Vulnerability, Preparedness and Mitigation

Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters: Vulnerability,...
Author: M.K. Jha ISBN: 9789048124978 Format: Hardback	$551.76
The major challenges of the 21st century faced by human beings are how to achieve water security, food security,... Read More >>

The Hurricane of 1938

The Hurricane of 1938
Author: Robert Allison , Robert Allison ISBN: 9781889833750 Format: Paperback	$34.19
A gripping description of New England's storm of the century. Read More >>

The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896. Being a Full History of the Most Terrifying and Destructive Tornado in the

The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May...
Author: Julian Curzon ISBN: 9781152929326 Format: Paperback	$60.96
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The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May 27, 1896

The Great Cyclone at St. Louis and East St. Louis, May...
Author: Julian Curzon ISBN: 9781152929302 Format: Paperback	$60.96
Publisher: St. Louis, Mo., Pease-Taylor publishing co Publication date: 1896 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There... Read More >>

Okavango Delta: Floods of Life

Okavango Delta: Floods of Life
Author: John Mendelson , Cornelis Vanderpost ISBN: 9789991678054 Format: Hardback	$129.36
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Firestorm: Black Saturday's Tragedy

Firestorm: Black Saturday's Tragedy
Author: ISBN: 9780646521305 Format: Hardback	$105.47
Brings to you previously untold real life stories of heroism, duty, care, survival, selflessness, gutsy life and... Read More >>

Hydrogeodynamics of Oil and Gas Basins

Hydrogeodynamics of Oil and Gas Basins
Author: V.I. Djunin , A. V. Korzun ISBN: 9789048128464 Format: Hardback	$446.16
This book, with a special chapter on the problem of oil origin and the formation of hydrocarbon fields, is an in-depth... Read More >>

Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis

Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis...
Author: Pamela S. Showalter , Yongmei Lu ISBN: 9789048122370 Format: Hardback	$446.16
This book is the second in a series that examines how geographic information te- nologies (GIT) are being implemented... Read More >>

Atlas of Remote Sensing of the Wenchuan Earthquake

Atlas of Remote Sensing of the Wenchuan Earthquake
Author: Guo Huadong (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China) ISBN: 9781439816745 Format: Hardback	$431.00
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Dangerous Materials: Control, Risk Prevention and Crisis Management: From New Global Threats to New Global Responses: A Picture of Transition

Dangerous Materials: Control, Risk Prevention and Crisis...
Author: Alberto Brugnoli ISBN: 9781283511063 Format: Electronic book text	$498.96
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Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Lessons from Aceh

Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Lessons from Aceh
Author: Matthew Clarke (Deakin University, Australia) , Matthew Clarke (Deakin University, Australia) ISBN: 9781282726505 Format: Electronic book text	$303.60
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Bretz's Flood

Bretz's Flood
Author: John Soennichsen ISBN: 9781282718968 Format: Undefined	$44.75
The land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains is characterized by gullies, coulees, and deserts--in geologic... Read More >>

Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire

Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon...
Author: John N MacLean ISBN: 9780061829611 Format: Paperback	$39.57
Maclean chronicles the deadly 1994 Colorado forest fire that was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in... Read More >>

Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe

Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe...
Author: Florin Diacu ISBN: 9780691133508 Format: Hardback	$65.87
Can we predict cataclysmic disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or stock market crashes? This book... Read More >>

Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North Australian Savannas

Culture, Ecology and Economy of Fire Management in North...
Author: Jeremy Russell-Smith , Peter Whitehead ISBN: 9780643094024 Format: Paperback	$99.95
The savannas of northern Australia are the most fire-prone part of a fire-prone continent. The book documents key... Read More >>

Crisis: The Most Likely Catastrophes of the Next Decade; Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Survival

Crisis: The Most Likely Catastrophes of the Next Decade;...
Author: Brock Livingston ISBN: 9781936136124 Format: Undefined	$36.83
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The Tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka: Impacts and Policy in the Shadow of Civil War

The Tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka: Impacts and Policy...
Author: Piers Blaikie , Piers Blaikie (University of East Anglia, UK) ISBN: 9780415559096 Format: Hardback	$294.00
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