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Floods

Floods
Author: Mary Winget ISBN: 9781580138680 Format: Paperback	$18.35
Do you know how floods happen? What a flash flood is? How people can stay safe during a flood? Read this book to... Read More >>

Landslides

Landslides
Author: Jeffrey Zuehlke ISBN: 9781580138697 Format: Paperback	$18.35
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Tsunamis

Tsunamis
Author: Lisa Bullard ISBN: 9781580138710 Format: Paperback	$18.35
Do you know what a tsunami is? What causes a tsunami? What happens when a tsunami gets close to shore? Read this... Read More >>

Climate Resilient Cities: A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities to Disasters

Climate Resilient Cities: A Primer on Reducing Vulnerabilities...
Author: Neeraj Prasad , Federica Ranghieri ISBN: 9780821377666 Format: Mixed media product	$105.47
Shows how to plan for climate change impacts and impending natural disasters through sound urban planning. This... Read More >>

Optimisation of Disaster Forecasting and Prevention Measures in the Context of Human and Social Dynamics

Optimisation of Disaster Forecasting and Prevention...
Author: I. Apostol , D. L. Barry ISBN: 9781586039486 Format: Hardback	$440.88
Addresses a wide range of disaster-management regimes. This book discusses monitoring and the assessment of health... Read More >>

Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa

Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa
Author: Mark Pelling , Ben Wisner ISBN: 9781844075560 Format: Hardback	$305.00
Offers a fresh way of thinking about the reduction of risk in rapidly urbanizing cities across the globe. This book... Read More >>

In Time of Emergency (A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters)

In Time of Emergency (A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear...
Author: Department of Defense ISBN: 9781437887761 Format: Paperback	$232.29
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In the Grip of the Whirlwind: The Armistice Day Storm of 1940

In the Grip of the Whirlwind: The Armistice Day Storm...
Author: Tom Powers, S.J (School of Hospitality and Tourism Management University of Guelph Ontario Canada) ISBN: 9781933272207 Format: Paperback	$39.47
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Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change: Making Research Useful for Adaptation Decision Making and Policy

Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change:...
Author: Richard J. T. Klein , Anthony G. Patt ISBN: 9781844076970 Format: Hardback	$189.00
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Natural Disasters: Public Policy Options for Changing the Federal Role in Natural Catastrophe Insurance

Natural Disasters: Public Policy Options for Changing...
Author: Government Accountability Office ISBN: 9781604567175 Format: Paperback	$102.96
Examines the rationale for and resources of federal and state programs that provide natural catastrophe insurance.... Read More >>

San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906 Earthquake and Fires

San Francisco Is Burning: The Untold Story of the 1906...
Author: Dr Dennis Smith (Loughborough University UK) , Alan Sklar ISBN: 9781607756446 Format: Mixed media product	$171.57
At 5:12 a.m. on the morning of April 18, 1906, San Francisco was struck by one of the worst earthquakes in history,... Read More >>

Droughts: Causes, Effects & Predictions

Droughts: Causes, Effects & Predictions
Author: Javier M Sánchez ISBN: 9781604562859 Format: Hardback	$517.47
A drought is a period of unusually persistent dry weather that costs long enough to cause serious problems such... Read More >>

Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster That Warns of a Warmer World

Island in a Storm: A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast,...
Author: Abby Sallenger ISBN: 9781282460133 Format: Electronic book text	$65.87
This gripping recreation of a deadly 1856 hurricane also illuminates social history, weather, science, and the growing... Read More >>

Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses

Natural Disasters, Cultural Responses
Author: Professor Christof Mauch (Universitat zu Koln) , Professor Christof Mauch (Universitat zu Koln) ISBN: 9781282494305 Format: Electronic book text	$118.77
This is the first global history of natural catastrophes. It brings together some of the best scholars from different... Read More >>

The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: Assessing Pre-Katrina Vulnerability and Improving Mitigation and Preparedness

The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System: Assessing...
Author: Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects ISBN: 9781282239302 Format: Electronic book text	$55.44
Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans and surrounding areas in August 2005, ranks as one of the nation's most... Read More >>

Mapping the Zone: Improving Flood Map Accuracy

Mapping the Zone: Improving Flood Map Accuracy
Author: Committee on Fema Flood Maps ISBN: 9781282130357 Format: Electronic book text	$84.48
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Final Report from the NRC Committee on the Review of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration (Lacpr) Program

Final Report from the NRC Committee on the Review of...
Author: Committee on the Review of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration (Lacpr) Program ISBN: 9781282412538 Format: Electronic book text	$55.44
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Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana

Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection...
Author: Craig E Colten ISBN: 9781282485921 Format: Electronic book text	$132.00
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After Ike

After Ike
Author: MR Bryan Carlile ISBN: 9781299052086 Format: Electronic book text	$65.87
The day after Hurricane Ike made U.S. landfall at Galveston, Texas, photographer Bryan Carlile was in a helicopter,... Read More >>

Big Burn

Big Burn
Author: Timothy Egan ISBN: 9781299882058 Format: Electronic book text	$42.11
National Book Award-winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and... Read More >>

Natural Disasters, Vulnerability, and Sustainable Development

Natural Disasters, Vulnerability, and Sustainable Development...
Author: Ebru Gencer ISBN: 9783836475105 Format: Paperback	$293.04
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Amazing Grace

Amazing Grace
Author: Danielle Steel ISBN: 9780552154734 Format: Paperback	$23.26
Sister Maggie Kent, a nun who does her best work in jeans and trainers, searches through the rubble - and knows... Read More >>

Bioclimatology and Biogeography of Africa

Bioclimatology and Biogeography of Africa
Author: Henry N. Houérou ISBN: 9783540851912 Format: Hardback	$498.96
Covering an area of over 130 million km2 spanning the Mediterranean, equator and tropics, the African continent... Read More >>

Man Vs. Weather: Be Your Own Weatherman

Man Vs. Weather: Be Your Own Weatherman
Author: Dennis DiClaudio ISBN: 9780143113638 Format: Hardback	$36.96
A humorous and practical guide to the history and science of understanding the weather, including how to build your... Read More >>

Landslides: Disaster Risk Reduction

Landslides: Disaster Risk Reduction
Author: Kyoji Sassa , Paolo Canuti ISBN: 9783540699668 Format: Hardback	$710.16
In Tokyo in 2008, a number of international organizations convened for the First World Landslide Forum. This book... Read More >>

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