Natural disasters books

This book is the result of the work of the first international congress of the ArabGU (Arabian Geosciences Union)...  Read More >>

A specific case study focuses on social representations and the family as a social institution in transition in...  Read More >>

English summary: At the end of the 18th century Europe suffered one of the worst subsistence crises of the Little...  Read More >>

Disasters happen all the time in the world affecting people's life, peace and joy as well as challenging their faith...  Read More >>

This book explains the tragic tale of the Satluj floodplain since its inception. As a landscape this floodplain...  Read More >>

This monograph presents the state of art of the geologic knowledge about the Spanish coast obtained through scientific...  Read More >>

Harvey the Teddy Bear watches outside as the rains keep pouring, and the waters rise during the Hurricane Harvey...  Read More >>

In November 2008, a vicious wildfire swept through Santa Barbara, California, forcing many residents to flee in...  Read More >>

Trained wildland firefighter and photojournalist Stuart Palley documents California's raging wildfires and the forces...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the spatial distribution of landslide hazards of the Darjeeling Himalayas. Knowledge driven...  Read More >>

This book is a unique, transdisciplinary summary of the state of the art of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Indonesia....  Read More >>

This book offers a systematic investigation of the ecological and environmental issues related to the land cover...  Read More >>

This book covers the restoration and reconstruction process and activities undertaken in Japan in the first five...  Read More >>

A young teenager named Derek is seeing the world and how terrible it is in the current time he's living in. He goes...  Read More >>

This book provides the proceedings of the 13th International Conference of Meteorology, Climatology and Atmospheric...  Read More >>

This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium...  Read More >>

This book presents methods and results that cover and extend beyond the state-of-the-art in structural dynamics...  Read More >>

After a flood, people are often uncertain if their eligibility for federal disaster assistance is linked to any...  Read More >>

This book describes the second phase of the Qinghai–Tibetan railway construction project and is the first technological...  Read More >>

Steven Serels charts the erosion of this moral economy, a slow-moving process that began during the Little Ice Age...  Read More >>

This book addresses earthquakes, with a special focus on the Ghorka earthquake, which struck parts of central Nepal...  Read More >>

This study proposes an eco-political reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses by looking into four aspects of the environment...  Read More >>

This book is one out of six IAEG XIII Congress and AEG 61st Annual Meeting proceeding volumes, and deals with topics...  Read More >>

Rodger Madden is immersed in his work when he learns of the Indonesian tsunami. Not realizing a disaster halfway...  Read More >>

La historia verdadera de cómo un grupo de chefs alimentó a cientos de miles de estadounidenses hambrientos después...  Read More >>