Natural disasters books

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Proceedings of the 4th Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction: Increasing the Effectiveness and Relevance of Our Institutes

Proceedings of the 4th Global Summit of Research Institutes...

Author: Hirokazu Tatano ,  Andrew Collins
ISBN: 9789811955655
Format: Hardback
$413.97

This book presents selected papers by the keynote speakers and other presenters from various disciplines and includes...  Read More >>

Service-Learning for Disaster Resilience: Partnerships for Social Good

Service-Learning for Disaster Resilience: Partnerships...

Author: Lucia Velotti (City University of New York (CUNY), USA) ,  Rebecca Morgenstern Brenner (Cornell University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032023434
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Service-Learning for Disaster Resilience is the first to discuss, in practical and theoretical terms, the pedagogical...  Read More >>

Climate Change and Risk in South and Southeast Asia: Sociopolitical Perspectives

Climate Change and Risk in South and Southeast Asia:...

Author: Devendraraj Madhanagopal (Xavier University, India) ,  Salim Momtaz (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
ISBN: 9781032106700
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book, focuses on South and Southeast Asia, upgrades our understanding of the influence of multiple sociopolitical...  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: 9781469671345
Format: Hardback
$159.50

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Prepper's Guide to Survival Off the Grid: How to Plan and Execute Living off the Grid

Prepper's Guide to Survival Off the Grid: How to Plan...

Author: Jack Bright
ISBN: 9788367314213
Format: Paperback
$60.46

Dive into the fascinating world of off-grid projects! Have you ever contemplated living off the grid? Does...  Read More >>

Geohazard Mitigation: Select Proceedings of VCDRR 2021

Geohazard Mitigation: Select Proceedings of VCDRR 2021...

Author: Basanta Raj Adhikari ,  Sreevalsa Kolathayar
ISBN: 9789811661426
Format: Paperback
$569.22

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021). This...  Read More >>

Prepper's Guide to Survival Off the Grid: How to Plan and Execute Living off the Grid

Prepper's Guide to Survival Off the Grid: How to Plan...

Author: Jack Bright
ISBN: 9788367314220
Format: Hardback
$84.22

Dive into the fascinating world of off-grid projects! Have you ever contemplated living off the grid? Does...  Read More >>

Geohazards and Risks Studied from Earth Observations

Geohazards and Risks Studied from Earth Observations...

Author: Teodolina Lopez ,  Anny Cazenave
ISBN: 9783030879914
Format: Paperback
$181.10

The Sentinel missions of the COPERNICUS Programme of the European Union, as well as other Earth Observation missions,...  Read More >>

The Global Perspective on Meteotsunami Science

The Global Perspective on Meteotsunami Science

Author: Ivica Vilibić ,  Alexander B. Rabinovich
ISBN: 9783030870294
Format: Paperback
$362.22

This book contains a collection of papers from the special issue on the global perspective on meteotsunami science,...  Read More >>

Instrumentation and Measurement Technologies for Water Cycle Management

Instrumentation and Measurement Technologies for Water...

Author: Anna Di Mauro ,  Andrea Scozzari
ISBN: 9783031082610
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book aims at presenting a unified framework for the description of working principles, recent advances and...  Read More >>

The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels: Rewritings from a Drowning World

The Noah Myth in Twenty-First-Century Cli-Fi Novels:...

Author: Helen E. Mundler
ISBN: 9781640141315
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Breaks new ground by both analyzing the literary qualities of four recent rewritings of the Noah myth and contextualizing...  Read More >>

Vesiculation and Crystallization of Magma: Fundamentals of the Volcanic Eruption Process

Vesiculation and Crystallization of Magma: Fundamentals...

Author: Atsushi Toramaru
ISBN: 9789811642111
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This book comprehensively illustrates the elemental processes of vesiculation and crystallization recorded in volcanic...  Read More >>

Housing Market Response to Sea-Level Rise in Florida

Housing Market Response to Sea-Level Rise in Florida...

Author: Risa Palm ,  Toby Bolsen
ISBN: 9783030884376
Format: Paperback
$284.60

South Florida continues to attract new residents despite its susceptibility to sea-level rise. This book explores...  Read More >>

Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia

Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia

Author: Joy Jacqueline Pereira ,  Mohd Khairul Zain
ISBN: 9789811660900
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book highlights the current issues, challenges, and priorities for climate change adaptation in the ten member...  Read More >>

Two 2018 Destructive Indonesian Tsunamis: Palu (Sulawesi) and Anak Krakatau

Two 2018 Destructive Indonesian Tsunamis: Palu (Sulawesi)...

Author: Alexander B. Rabinovich
ISBN: 9783030951818
Format: Paperback
$284.60

On 28 September a Mw 7.5 local earthquake near nprthwestern Sulawesi Island caused a strong tsunami that destructively...  Read More >>

Build Back Better: Challenges of Asian Disaster Recovery

Build Back Better: Challenges of Asian Disaster Recovery...

Author: Toshihisa Toyoda ,  Jianping Wang
ISBN: 9789811659812
Format: Paperback
$310.47

International society led by the United Nations has been working to improve and standardize every country's post-disaster...  Read More >>

Seasonal Flood Forecasts and Warning Response Opportunities: ENSO Applications in Bangladesh

Seasonal Flood Forecasts and Warning Response Opportunities:...

Author: Md. Rashed Chowdhury
ISBN: 9783031178238
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This book explores the feasibility of using El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-based forecasts and early warning...  Read More >>

The Tornado: 30 Facts About Tornadoes, Types, Causes, Full Details And Warnings

The Tornado: 30 Facts About Tornadoes, Types, Causes,...

Author: Thomas Roberts
ISBN: 9798369694312
Format: Paperback
$31.65

"On Saturday 10th, 2023, Tornadoes occurred in several regions of the globe, including Australia, Europe, Africa,...  Read More >>

Building Resilient Energy Systems: Lessons from Japan

Building Resilient Energy Systems: Lessons from Japan...

Author: Jennifer F. Sklarew
ISBN: 9781032130835
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This book explores an ongoing puzzle: why don’t catastrophic events, such as oil shocks and nuclear meltdowns, always...  Read More >>

The Blessings of Disaster: The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our Future Depends on It

The Blessings of Disaster: The Lessons That Catastrophes...

Author: Michel Bruneau
ISBN: 9781633888234
Format: Hardback
$60.99

Are we doomed? As individuals, certainly, eventually, inevitably. But as a species? As a civilization? Leading catastrophe...  Read More >>

Coseismic Landslides: Phenomena, Long-Term Effects and Mitigation

Coseismic Landslides: Phenomena, Long-Term Effects and...

Author: Ikuo Towhata ,  Gonghui Wang
ISBN: 9789811965968
Format: Hardback
$465.72

This book is the result of an elaborate project initiated by the Joint Technical Committee (JTC-1) of 1) the International...  Read More >>

Geological and Geo-Environmental Processes on Earth

Geological and Geo-Environmental Processes on Earth...

Author: Arun Kumar Shandilya ,  Vinod Kumar Singh
ISBN: 9789811641244
Format: Paperback
$362.22

This volume throws light on the applications of remote sensing, GIS (Geographical Information System) and SRTM data...  Read More >>

Climate Change Impact on Soil Erosion in Sub-tropical Environment: Application of Empirical and Semi-empirical Models

Climate Change Impact on Soil Erosion in Sub-tropical...

Author: Subodh Chandra Pal ,  Rabin Chakrabortty
ISBN: 9783031157202
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This work focuses on the potential impact of climate change on soil erosion in a monsoon-dominated sub-tropical...  Read More >>

Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains

Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century...

Author: Kevin Z. Sweeney
ISBN: 9780806191249
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl...  Read More >>

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