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Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes: Panel Report

Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes: Panel Report...
Author: Panel on Earthquake Loss Estimation Methodology , National Research Panel on Earthquake Loss Estimation Methodology Committee on Earthquake Engineering ISBN: 9781280260407 Format: Electronic book text	$64.02
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Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes

Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes
Author: Panel on Earthquake Loss Estimation Methodology , National Research Panel on Earthquake Loss Estimation Methodology Committee on Earthquake Engineering ISBN: 9781280260391 Format: Electronic book text	$131.34
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Global Climatic Catastrophes

Global Climatic Catastrophes
Author: Michael I. Budyko , V.G. Yanuta ISBN: 9783540186472 Format: Paperback	$105.47
The necessity of eliminating the possibility of a large-scale nuclear conflict from the future of mankind is the... Read More >>

Managing Disaster: Strategies and Policy Perspectives

Managing Disaster: Strategies and Policy Perspectives...
Author: Louise K. Comfort , Louise K. Comfort ISBN: 9780822308164 Format: Paperback	$105.47
This book reflects an important shift in society's definition of disaster. For centuries catastrophic events have... Read More >>

Natural and Man-Made Hazards: Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Rimouski, Quebec, Canada, 3-9 August, 1986

Natural and Man-Made Hazards: Proceedings of the International...
Author: Mohammed I. El-Sabh , Tad S. Murty ISBN: 9789027725240 Format: Hardback	$974.16
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Rural Vulnerability to Famine in Ethiopia: 1958-77

Rural Vulnerability to Famine in Ethiopia: 1958-77
Author: Mesfin Wolde Mariam ISBN: 9780946688036 Format: Paperback	$51.62
This book sets out to demonstrate that the subsistence production system, with the disincentives of oppression and... Read More >>

Practical Approaches to Earthquake Prediction and Warning

Practical Approaches to Earthquake Prediction and Warning...
Author: C. Kisslinger , Tsuneji Rikitake ISBN: 9789027721686 Format: Hardback	$990.00
A seminar on ""Practical Approaches to Earthquake Prediction and Warning"" was held in Tokyo and Tsukuba, Japan... Read More >>

Recovering From Catastrophes: Federal Disaster Relief Policy and Politics

Recovering From Catastrophes: Federal Disaster Relief...
Author: Peter May ISBN: 9780313246982 Format: Hardback	$103.00
This book examines the evolution of federal disaster relief policy, assesses problems with current policy, and provides... Read More >>

All Hell Broke Loose: Experiences of Young People During the Armistice Day 1940 Blizzard

All Hell Broke Loose: Experiences of Young People During...
Author: William H Hull ISBN: 9781882376964 Format: Paperback	$42.11
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Earthquake Prediction

Earthquake Prediction
Author: UNESCO ISBN: 9789231018831 Format: Hardback	$180.95
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Earthquake Prediction Read More >>

Advances in Risk Analysis: Issues, Methods, and Case Studies

Advances in Risk Analysis: Issues, Methods, and Case...
Author: Ray A. Waller ISBN: 9780306417252 Format: Hardback	$597.96
In recent years public attention has focused on an array of low-probability/high-consequence (LC/HC) events that... Read More >>

Disaster Management: Warning Response and Community Relocation

Disaster Management: Warning Response and Community...
Author: Alvin H. Mushkatel , Ronald Perry ISBN: 9780899300788 Format: Hardback	$141.95
This book addresses two common problems encountered by emergency services personnel: the design and implementation... Read More >>

Victims of the Environment: Loss from Natural Hazards in the United States, 1970–1980

Victims of the Environment: Loss from Natural Hazards...
Author: James D. Wright , Peter H. Rossi ISBN: 9780306414138 Format: Hardback	$258.72
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Tsunamis: Their Science and Engineering: Proceedings of the International Tsunami Symposium 1981 IUGG Tsunami Commission May, 1981 Sendai-Ofunato-Kamaishi, Japan

Tsunamis: Their Science and Engineering: Proceedings...
Author: T. Iwasaki , K. Iida ISBN: 9789027716118 Format: Hardback	$921.36
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Earthquake Forecasting and Warning

Earthquake Forecasting and Warning
Author: Tsuneji Rikitake ISBN: 9789027712189 Format: Hardback	$446.16
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Current Research in Earthquake Prediction Vol.I

Current Research in Earthquake Prediction Vol.I
Author: Tsuneji Rikitake ISBN: 9789027711335 Format: Hardback	$789.36
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The Economic Effects of Floods: Investigations of a Stochastic Model of Rational Investment Behavior in the Face of Floods

The Economic Effects of Floods: Investigations of a...
Author: J.P. Brown ISBN: 9783540059257 Format: Paperback	$39.60
There is by now a large literature on the economic aspects of flood control and flood relief policies. This is the... Read More >>

The Problem of Krakatao as Seen by a Botanist

The Problem of Krakatao as Seen by a Botanist
Author: C.A. Backer ISBN: 9789401519977 Format: Paperback	$290.37
I. Introduction. II. The vegetati(l)n of Krakatao before the catastrophe of Aug. 27th 1883. 15 III. The destruction... Read More >>

Die Wassernoth im Emmenthal am 13. August 1837

Die Wassernoth im Emmenthal am 13. August 1837
Author: Jeremias Gotthelf ISBN: 9783642471803 Format: Paperback	$158.37
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Nightshining

Nightshining
Author: Jennifer Kabat ISBN: 9781639550708 Format: Paperback	$34.99
""A braided memoir about flooding in the Catskills, the region's history regarding GE and cloud seeding, and the... Read More >>

The Anti-Catastrophe League: The Pioneers and Visionaries on a Quest to Save the World

The Anti-Catastrophe League: The Pioneers and Visionaries...
Author: Tom Ough ISBN: 9780008722357 Format: Paperback	$34.99
A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant... Read More >>

Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters

Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters
Author: Cary J. Griffith ISBN: 9781517915575 Format: Paperback	$29.99
Stories from survivors of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness's epochal weather disaster On July 4, 1999,... Read More >>

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve: From Local Thinking to Global Actions

Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Seaflower...
Author: José Ernesto Mancera Pineda , Andrés F. Osorio ISBN: 9789819766628 Format: Hardback	$158.37
This open access book addresses the following topics for the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve (BR) in the Colombian Archipelago... Read More >>

The Anti-Catastrophe League: The Pioneers and Visionaries on a Quest to Save the World

The Anti-Catastrophe League: The Pioneers and Visionaries...
Author: Tom Ough ISBN: 9780008722340 Format: Hardback	$59.99
A superbly written work of narrative non-fiction by an exciting new talent, The Anti-Catastrophe League is a brilliant... Read More >>

Volcano Geomorphology: Landforms, Processes, and Hazards

Volcano Geomorphology: Landforms, Processes, and Hazards...
Author: Dávid Karátson , Jean-Claude Thouret ISBN: 9783031776922 Format: Hardback	$498.96
It describes in detail volcanic landforms and related geomorphic processes.It provides a review of the recent outcomes... Read More >>

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