Natural disasters books

The Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale is used by the National Hurricane Center to categorize storms. It assigns...  Read More >>

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Disaster Resilience emphasizes the intersection of urban planning and hazard mitigation...  Read More >>

""The Cajun Navy recounts the origin of the Cajun Navy Foundation and its efforts to provide disaster relief during...  Read More >>

The author proposes to consolidate such lands and create wetlands because the paddy fields hold water during heavy...  Read More >>

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Ferocious storm Fiona hit eastern Canada on Saturday with gusts of a hurricane, uprooting trees and powerlines and...  Read More >>

Takes a comprehensive look at sacred and secular disaster songs, shining a spotlight on their historical and cultural...  Read More >>

This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from...  Read More >>

Takes a comprehensive look at sacred and secular disaster songs, shining a spotlight on their historical and cultural...  Read More >>

This book provides hands-on conceptual, theoretical, and case study discussions on vulnerability and resilience...  Read More >>

This book explains to governments, decision makers and disaster professionals the potential uses of recent technologies...  Read More >>

This book brings together contributions from world renowned researchers and practitioners in the field of geotechnical...  Read More >>

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The recent understandings about global earth mechanics are widely based on huge amounts of monitoring data accumulated...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the mechanical properties and permeability of coal, and the gas flow in coal seams. Based on...  Read More >>

This book deals with natural hazards of geophysical, meteorological, hydrological, and biological types that are...  Read More >>

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This book highlights the essential theoretical and practical aspects of lightning, lightning protection, safety...  Read More >>

The Plague Years collects scholarly and essayistic reflections on literary, visual, and sonic representations of...  Read More >>

This open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific...  Read More >>

This open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific...  Read More >>

Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from pre-European contact to the present....  Read More >>

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