Natural disasters books

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Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters: Place, Culture and Survival

Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters: Place,...

Author: Nahid Rezwana (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh) ,  Rachel Pain
ISBN: 9780367545789
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book investigates the widespread and persistent relationship between disasters and gender-based violence, drawing...  Read More >>

Community Development for Times of Crisis: Creating Caring Communities

Community Development for Times of Crisis: Creating...

Author: Mark A. Brennan ,  Rhonda Phillips
ISBN: 9781032080437
Format: Paperback
$75.99

This book explores the intersection of community development and local capacity building as a basis for effective...  Read More >>

Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters: Place, Culture and Survival

Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters: Place,...

Author: Nahid Rezwana (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh) ,  Rachel Pain
ISBN: 9780367545772
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book investigates the widespread and persistent relationship between disasters and gender-based violence, drawing...  Read More >>

Community Development for Times of Crisis: Creating Caring Communities

Community Development for Times of Crisis: Creating...

Author: Mark A. Brennan ,  Rhonda Phillips
ISBN: 9781032080444
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book explores the intersection of community development and local capacity building as a basis for effective...  Read More >>

The Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface

The Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface...

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ,  Division on Earth and Life Studies
ISBN: 9780309277051
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Wildfires in America are becoming larger, more frequent, and more destructive, driven by climate change and existing...  Read More >>

Climate Change and Earthquake Exposure in Asia and the Pacific: Assessment of Energy and Transport Infrastructure

Climate Change and Earthquake Exposure in Asia and the...

Author: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9789292699758
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Analyses the exposure of energy and transport assets in Asia and the Pacific to climate change and earthquake hazards...  Read More >>

Seismic Design Methods for Steel Building Structures

Seismic Design Methods for Steel Building Structures...

Author: George A. Papagiannopoulos ,  George D. Hatzigeorgiou
ISBN: 9783030806897
Format: Paperback
$310.47

The book, after two introductory chapters on seismic design principles and structural seismic analysis methods,...  Read More >>

A Significant Emergency: California's battle against storms and mudslide

A Significant Emergency: California's battle against...

Author: Mary Jane
ISBN: 9798373545785
Format: Paperback
$29.01

The new year didn't appear too friendly for the golden state of California. This book provide you with every necessary...  Read More >>

River Hydraulics: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering Vol. 2

River Hydraulics: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal...

Author: Ramakar Jha ,  V. P. Singh
ISBN: 9783030817701
Format: Paperback
$388.10

This book presents key principles of the hydraulics of river basins, with a unique focus on the interplay between...  Read More >>

Considerations for a Post-COVID-19 Technology and Innovation Ecosystem in China

Considerations for a Post-COVID-19 Technology and Innovation...

Author: Jinling Hua ,  Bismark Adu Gyamfi
ISBN: 9789811669613
Format: Paperback
$284.60

China, where COVID-19 started, has developed and utilized different types of technologies, including both traditional...  Read More >>

Why Global Warming Cannot Be Stopped and How It Will Lead to Mass Migration

Why Global Warming Cannot Be Stopped and How It Will...

Author: Boris Soukharev ,  Anita Zavodska
ISBN: 9788396607805
Format: Paperback
$92.37

This popular science book explains why further global warming is inevitable, why it will lead to forced mass migration,...  Read More >>

Geospatial Technologies for Land and Water Resources Management

Geospatial Technologies for Land and Water Resources...

Author: Ashish Pandey ,  V. M. Chowdary
ISBN: 9783030904814
Format: Paperback
$362.22

This book focuses on the application of geospatial technologies to study the land use land cover (LULC) dynamics,...  Read More >>

Mia: Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones

Mia: Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones

Author: Dianne Wolfer ,  Lyn White
ISBN: 9781911679578
Format: Paperback
$20.67

A powerful story of one girl's experience of 2019's Cyclone Veronica in Western Australia.  Read More >>

Case Studies in Disaster Recovery: A Volume in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation Series

Case Studies in Disaster Recovery: A Volume in the Disaster...

Author: Jane Kushma (Professor Emerita of Emergency Management and Director of the Center for Disaster and Community Resilience, Jacksonville State University, Alabama, USA)
ISBN: 9780128095744
Format: Paperback
$211.07

Case Studies in Disaster Recovery, the initial release in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in...  Read More >>

Post-Disaster Governance in Southeast Asia: Response, Recovery, and Resilient Societies

Post-Disaster Governance in Southeast Asia: Response,...

Author: Andri N.R. Mardiah ,  Robert B. Olshansky
ISBN: 9789811674037
Format: Paperback
$336.35

While the experiences of disaster risk reduction and climate change implementation in Southeast Asian countries...  Read More >>

The Snow Apocalypse: How to Prepare and Survive a Winter Storm

The Snow Apocalypse: How to Prepare and Survive a Winter...

Author: Harold M Hunter
ISBN: 9798372381254
Format: Paperback
$26.37

Are you ready for the snow apocalypse? Winter storms can be beautiful, but they can also be dangerous and disruptive....  Read More >>

Vanguard Of Nature Book One Of Nature Against Humanity: Let No Beast Stand In Their Way

Vanguard Of Nature Book One Of Nature Against Humanity:...

Author: T William Pleasant
ISBN: 9781736559833
Format: Hardback
$87.89

Vanguard Of Nature Let No Beast Stand In Their Way T. William Pleasant July 5th, 2021 ISBN 978-1-7365598-3-3 Copyright...  Read More >>

Geospatial Technology for Environmental Hazards: Modeling and Management in Asian Countries

Geospatial Technology for Environmental Hazards: Modeling...

Author: Pravat Kumar Shit ,  Hamid Reza Pourghasemi
ISBN: 9783030751999
Format: Paperback
$362.22

The book demonstrates the geospatial technology approach to data mining techniques, data analysis, modeling, risk...  Read More >>

Flooding in the Golden State: California's Battle Against Flood Risk

Flooding in the Golden State: California's Battle Against...

Author: Harold M Hunter
ISBN: 9798372161795
Format: Paperback
$23.73

California's Battle with Flood Risk is a captivating read that takes you on a journey through the Golden State's...  Read More >>

Monitoring and Managing Multi-hazards: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Monitoring and Managing Multi-hazards: A Multidisciplinary...

Author: Jayanta Das ,  Sudip Kumar Bhattacharya
ISBN: 9783031153761
Format: Hardback
$362.22

​To monitor multi-hazards, Remote Sensing and GIS-based multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques have been...  Read More >>

5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume II

5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume II...

Author: S. Anand Babu
ISBN: 9781032355467
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The fifth WCDM deliberates on three critical issues that pose the most serious challenges as well as hold the best...  Read More >>

How to Think About Catastrophe: Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying

How to Think About Catastrophe: Toward a Theory of Enlightened...

Author: Jean-Pierre Dupuy ,  M B Debevoise
ISBN: 9781611864366
Format: Paperback
$59.40

How can we look forward and work past the dire position we now find ourselves in to achieve a sustainable future?...  Read More >>

Narrowing the Disaster Risk Protection Gap in Central Asia

Narrowing the Disaster Risk Protection Gap in Central...

Author: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9789292696795
Format: Paperback
$81.84

Examines risks from flooding and earthquakes in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region. The...  Read More >>

Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South

Hurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of...

Author: Caroline Grego
ISBN: 9781469671352
Format: Paperback
$48.40

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