Natural disasters books

This book offers anthropological insights into disasters in Latin America. It fills a gap in the literature by bringing...  Read More >>

This book collects a series of review articles summarizing the outcomes of collaborative research projects on the...  Read More >>

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Addresses the ways in which natural disasters impact the strategies and priorities of neoliberalizing states in...  Read More >>

Security and Safety in the Era of Global Risks provides a forum for a robust theoretical and policy debate to unlock...  Read More >>

En el año 1979, ocurrió en la República Dominicana, uno de los acontecimientos más grande de todos los tiempos....  Read More >>

Written to engage students and to provide a flexible foundation for instructors and practitioners, this interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

"""Binge-reading at its best."" Book Two of the best-selling Deep Series. Divemasters Boone Fischer and Emily Durand...  Read More >>

Written to engage students and to provide a flexible foundation for instructors and practitioners, this interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

The book presents meteorological and climatic aspects of tropical cyclones, including reviews on forecasting, warning...  Read More >>

This book calls for re-conceptualising urban recovery by exploring the intersection of reconstruction and displacement...  Read More >>

In the mid-19th century, pioneers made their way west along the Oregon Trail to a perilous portion of the path down...  Read More >>

This book evaluates the seismic performance of concrete gravity dams, considering the effects of strong motion duration,...  Read More >>

This book includes a careful selection of significant contributions from international experts that were presented...  Read More >>

TIMED FOR THE FIFTEENTH COMMEMORATION of Hurricane Katrina's dreadful epic of destruction and loss, suffering and...  Read More >>

In The Humanitarian Machine aid workers reflect on their own experiences of working in crisis. As they write about...  Read More >>

Disasters and Economic Recovery provides perspectives on the economic issues that emerge before, during and after...  Read More >>

In The Humanitarian Machine aid workers reflect on their own experiences of working in crisis. As they write about...  Read More >>

This book presents fundamental and applied research in developing geospatial modeling solutions to manage the challenges...  Read More >>

Disasters and Economic Recovery provides perspectives on the economic issues that emerge before, during and after...  Read More >>

The book highlights the root cause of human trafficking and analyses how factors of vulnerability affect the marginalized,...  Read More >>

With A Furious Sky, best-selling author Eric Jay Dolin tells the history of America itself through its five-hundred-year...  Read More >>

This book provides insight on how disaster risk management can increase the resilience of society to various natural...  Read More >>

It addresses new concepts in connection with the kinematical element method, discontinuity kinematical element method,...  Read More >>

For Jim Bradley, serving his nation in Afghanistan was an honor, and one he will always cherish. But, despite his...  Read More >>