Natural disasters books

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Tsunami Data Assimilation for Early Warning

Tsunami Data Assimilation for Early Warning

Author: Yuchen Wang
ISBN: 9789811973413
Format: Paperback
$448.77

This book focuses on proposing a tsunami early warning system using data assimilation of offshore data. Furthermore,...  Read More >>

Society 5.0, Digital Transformation and Disasters: Past, Present and Future

Society 5.0, Digital Transformation and Disasters: Past,...

Author: Sakiko Kanbara ,  Rajib Shaw
ISBN: 9789811956485
Format: Paperback
$343.17

This book presents the evolution of the science technology paradigm in Japan and analyzes the critical community...  Read More >>

Naturkatastrophen und Risikomanagement: Geowissenschaften und soziale Verantwortung

Naturkatastrophen und Risikomanagement: Geowissenschaften...

Author: Ulrich Ranke
ISBN: 9783662632987
Format: Hardback
$211.17

Mit der Covid-19-Pandemie hat die Menschheit zu den bekannten Ereignissen in der Natur wie den extremen Hochwasserereignissen...  Read More >>

Environmental Hazards and Resilience: Theory and Evidence

Environmental Hazards and Resilience: Theory and Evidence...

Author: Dennis J. Parker ,  Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell (Middlesex University, UK)
ISBN: 9780367774509
Format: Paperback
$81.99

Building resilience to the world’s increasingly damaging environmental hazards has become a priority. This book...  Read More >>

Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery

Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery

Author: Lenka Slavíková ,  Thomas Hartmann (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781032017587
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book investigates how the implementation of financial schemes (government relief subsidies, insurance schemes,...  Read More >>

Risk Society and Education in Post-Disaster Fukushima

Risk Society and Education in Post-Disaster Fukushima...

Author: Kaoru Miyazawa
ISBN: 9780367546717
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book examines how the concept of a risk society was handled in education programs implemented in post-disaster...  Read More >>

Tsunami: Generation, Propagation, Effects and Modeling

Tsunami: Generation, Propagation, Effects and Modeling...

Author: Jaden Mason
ISBN: 9781647404086
Format: Hardback
$419.73

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The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire

The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True...

Author: Sandra Millers Younger
ISBN: 9798989154012
Format: Paperback
$47.49

"A survivor's heart-stopping account of a modern megafire, with a new introduction by the author ""The Cedar...  Read More >>

The Disaster Preparedness Survival Guide: 10 Tips on How to Plan and Prepare for Any Emergency

The Disaster Preparedness Survival Guide: 10 Tips on...

Author: Pasindu A
ISBN: 9798223447948
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Are you prepared for the next disaster? Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, wars, and wildfires can...  Read More >>

The Kilonova Explosion: A Scientist's Warning About the Most Dangerous Neutron Star Mergers, and the Future of Life on Earth

The Kilonova Explosion: A Scientist's Warning About...

Author: Evelyn Waite
ISBN: 9798866371242
Format: Paperback
$36.93

Prepare to embark on a cosmic journey like no other. In The kilonova explosion, we unveil the extraordinary world...  Read More >>

Climate Change Impacts in India

Climate Change Impacts in India

Author: Chaitanya B. Pande ,  Kanak N. Moharir
ISBN: 9783031420559
Format: Hardback
$527.97

This book focuses on the impact of climate change on India, addressing environmental problems and conducting an...  Read More >>

Unraveling Environmental Disasters

Unraveling Environmental Disasters

Author: Daniel A. Vallero (Full Adjunct Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, NC, USA) ,  Trevor Letcher (Emeritus Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
ISBN: 9780443186516
Format: Paperback
$343.20

Unraveling Environmental Disasters, Second Edition provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current...  Read More >>

Recovery of Disaster Victims: Results of Joint Survey in East Japan, Aceh, Sichuan, and Tacloban

Recovery of Disaster Victims: Results of Joint Survey...

Author: Yuka Kaneko ,  Teuku Alvisyahrin
ISBN: 9789819929566
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book presents the results of a joint survey conducted as of the tenth anniversary of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake,...  Read More >>

Die "globale Erwärmung wird viele Menschen ""abkühlen""."

Die "globale Erwärmung wird viele Menschen ""abkühlen""."...

Author: Manu Sekodi
ISBN: 9798868304361
Format: Paperback
$34.32

"""Die globale Erwärmung wird viele abkühlen..."" ist ein wichtiges Buch, das die dringenden Herausforderungen der...  Read More >>

Remote Sensing Technologies for Monitoring and Prediction of Disasters

Remote Sensing Technologies for Monitoring and Prediction...

Author: Aston Butler
ISBN: 9781641168281
Format: Hardback
$419.76

Disasters refer to severe disruptions that affect the functioning of a community, to an extent which is beyond its...  Read More >>

Disasters and Public Health: Planning and Response

Disasters and Public Health: Planning and Response

Author: Lawanna Boone
ISBN: 9798887400631
Format: Hardback
$409.17

Public health emergencies or disasters are events that negatively affect the public health system and its protective...  Read More >>

Climate Change and Conflict in the Pacific: Challenges and Responses

Climate Change and Conflict in the Pacific: Challenges...

Author: Ria Shibata ,  Seforosa Carroll
ISBN: 9780367431853
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Shibata, Carroll and Boege address the various dimensions of the climate change–conflict nexus and shed light on...  Read More >>

Hurricane Hilary: The Ultimate Hurricane Survival Guide (Your Emergency Essentials Guide for Hurricane Preparedness)

Hurricane Hilary: The Ultimate Hurricane Survival Guide...

Author: Daryl Mackey
ISBN: 9780995893641
Format: Paperback
$52.67

The hurricane season is here, and you have to be prepared. This book offers advice on what to do ahead of time to...  Read More >>

Global warming, which is going to chill a lot of people

Global warming, which is going to chill a lot of people...

Author: Manu Sekodi
ISBN: 9798867555924
Format: Paperback
$34.32

"Dive into the climate emergency and explore the depths of global warming in this captivating book that will take...  Read More >>

Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development: Volume 2 - Disaster Risk Science and Technology

Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster...

Author: Indrajit Pal ,  Sreevalsa Kolathayar
ISBN: 9789811963506
Format: Paperback
$316.77

This, conference proceeding, book contains invited articles and contributory papers from the 2nd International Symposium...  Read More >>

Himalayan Tsunami

Himalayan Tsunami

Author: Niranjan Seshadri ,  Erika Seshadri
ISBN: 9781528968911
Format: Paperback
$25.85

In June of 2013, darkened skies over northern India released torrential rains from multiple cloudbursts, leaving...  Read More >>

California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Changing Coastline

California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Changing...

Author: Rosanna Xia
ISBN: 9781597146197
Format: Hardback
$79.20

"""An exploration of the responses that sea level rise demands along the West Coast""--"  Read More >>

Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters

Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters...

Author: Myriam J. A. Chancy
ISBN: 9781477327814
Format: Hardback
$82.99

This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the...  Read More >>

Groundwater and Water Quality: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering

Groundwater and Water Quality: Hydraulics, Water Resources...

Author: Ramakar Jha ,  Vijay P. Singh
ISBN: 9783031095535
Format: Paperback
$290.37

The impact of climate change on water resources is drawing worldwide attention these days, for water resources in...  Read More >>

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