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The Gardens of their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History

The Gardens of their Dreams: Desertification and Culture...
Author: Brian Griffith ISBN: 9781856497992 Format: Hardback	$250.67
The human consequences of the spread of the desert from Mauretania in West Africa through Central Asia to China... Read More >>

Risk Management and Society

Risk Management and Society
Author: Eve Coles , Denis Smith ISBN: 9780792368991 Format: Hardback	$351.12
Audience: The book will be of benefit to scientists, managers, politicians and trainers in academia, business and... Read More >>

The Seasons of Fire: Reflections on Fire in the West

The Seasons of Fire: Reflections on Fire in the West...
Author: David J. Strohmaier ISBN: 9780874174830 Format: Paperback	$57.95
Addresses our ambivalence about fire and the realities of loss to it. This book examines the process of renewal... Read More >>

Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders

Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New...
Author: Kim Fortun ISBN: 9780226257204 Format: Paperback	$67.95
In exploring the worldwide political and environmental aftermath of the Bhopal disaster in 1984, this text discusses... Read More >>

Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders

Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New...
Author: Kim Fortun ISBN: 9780226257198 Format: Hardback	$184.80
In exploring the worldwide political and environmental aftermath of the Bhopal disaster in 1984, this text discusses... Read More >>

North Carolina's Hurricane History

North Carolina's Hurricane History
Author: Jay Barnes ISBN: 9780807849699 Format: Paperback	$58.08
An illustrated history of more than 50 great storms that have pounded the """"Tar Heel"""" state from the days of... Read More >>

Coastal Defences: Processes, Problems and Solutions

Coastal Defences: Processes, Problems and Solutions...
Author: Peter W. French ISBN: 9780415198455 Format: Paperback	$158.00
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Coastal Defences: Processes, Problems and Solutions

Coastal Defences: Processes, Problems and Solutions...
Author: Peter W. French ISBN: 9780415198448 Format: Hardback	$462.00
This work presents the broad spectrum of methods that engineers use to protect the coastline and investigates the... Read More >>

Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000

Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000
Author: Frances Christie , Joseph Hanlon ISBN: 9780253339782 Format: Hardback	$131.87
Mozambique and the Great Flood of 2000 Frances Christie and Joseph Hanlon Analyzes the effectiveness of Mozambican... Read More >>

Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters
Author: Marlene Bradford , Robert S Carmichael ISBN: 9780893560713 Format: Hardback	$873.84
Organized alphabetically by disaster type, this natural-disaster reference describes each disaster in scientific... Read More >>

Scanning the Skies: A History of Tornado Forecasting

Scanning the Skies: A History of Tornado Forecasting...
Author: Marlene Bradford ISBN: 9780806133027 Format: Hardback	$65.87
This book highlights the modern tornado watch system and explains how advancements during the latter half of the... Read More >>

Yellowstone on Fire!

Yellowstone on Fire!
Author: Robert Ekey , Pat Bellinghausen ISBN: 9780962761874 Format: Paperback	$39.47
Chronicles the massive forest fires of 1988, how they were fought, what caused them, and how fire-management policy... Read More >>

Living in the Danger Zone: Realities about Hurricanes

Living in the Danger Zone: Realities about Hurricanes...
Author: Bill Marscher , Fran Marscher ISBN: 9780595170425 Format: Paperback	$44.75
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Redefining Sustainable Development

Redefining Sustainable Development
Author: Neil Middleton , Phil O’Keefe ISBN: 9780745316055 Format: Paperback	$47.95
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Redefining Sustainable Development

Redefining Sustainable Development
Author: Neil Middleton , Phil O’Keefe ISBN: 9780745316109 Format: Hardback	$221.76
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Forest Fires: Behavior and Ecological Effects

Forest Fires: Behavior and Ecological Effects
Author: Edward A. Johnson (Professor of Biological Sciences Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Calgary, Canada) , Kiyoko Miyanishi (Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada) ISBN: 9780123866608 Format: Hardback	$303.60
Even before the myth of Prometheus, fire played a crucial ecological role around the world. Numerous plant communities... Read More >>

Act of God/Active God: Recovering from Natural Disasters

Act of God/Active God: Recovering from Natural Disasters...
Author: Gary L. Harbaugh ISBN: 9780800632151 Format: Paperback	$21.99
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Applied Geomorphology for Mitigation of Natural Hazards

Applied Geomorphology for Mitigation of Natural Hazards...
Author: Masahiko Oya ISBN: 9780792367192 Format: Hardback	$237.47
There are many natural hazards such as floods, landslides, volcanoes and earthquakes in the Asia-Pacific Region.... Read More >>

Coping With Flash Floods

Coping With Flash Floods
Author: Eve Gruntfest , John Handmer ISBN: 9780792368267 Format: Paperback	$224.27
This volume is the proceedings of a NATO-sponsored Advanced Study Institute (ASI) entitled ""Coping with Flash Floods""... Read More >>

Coping With Flash Floods

Coping With Flash Floods
Author: Eve Gruntfest , John Handmer ISBN: 9780792368250 Format: Hardback	$630.96
This volume is the proceedings of a NATO-sponsored Advanced Study Institute (ASI) entitled ""Coping with Flash Floods""... Read More >>

The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone

The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche...
Author: Mckay Jenkins ISBN: 9780385720779 Format: Paperback	$34.32
In 1969, five young men from Montana set out to accomplish what no one had before: to scale the sheer north face... Read More >>

Blizzard of '78

Blizzard of '78
Author: Michael Tougias ISBN: 9780971954755 Format: Paperback	$39.47
New England was knocked to its knees on February 6th and 7th, 1978, by the incredible snow and wind referred to... Read More >>

Earth Rising II - the Betrayal of Science

Earth Rising II - the Betrayal of Science
Author: Nick Begich , James Roderick ISBN: 9781890693442 Format: Paperback	$47.39
In Earth Rising II, Begich and Roderick explore several new technology areas as well as their implications for personal... Read More >>

Environmental Disaster and the Archaeology of Human Response

Environmental Disaster and the Archaeology of Human...
Author: Garth Bawden , Richard Martin Reycraft ISBN: 9780912535142 Format: Hardback	$92.27
This collection of papers, taken from the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Nashville... Read More >>

A Biological Assessment of the Aquatic Ecosystems of the Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

A Biological Assessment of the Aquatic Ecosystems of...
Author: Philip W. Willink , Barry Chernoff ISBN: 9781881173359 Format: Paperback	$32.95
The largest wetland in the world, the Pantanal is threatened by silt runoff from deforested highlands. This assesment... Read More >>

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