Natural disasters books

This book presents the results of seismic data analysis and interpretation based on nearly one million seismic events....  Read More >>

This book presents a comprehensive framework for disaster communication, with a main focus on earthquake-related...  Read More >>

This book offers a high-level summary of shallow magmatic systems (dykes, sills and laccoliths) to support geoscience...  Read More >>

This book bridges the gap between history and science, reexamining eyewitness accounts of the flood and historic...  Read More >>

This book is the hearing that took place on September 14th 2005 before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental...  Read More >>

Although the last volcanic activity on Nisyros dates back at least 20,000 to 25,000 years, it encompasses an active...  Read More >>

Breathing Again is an inspirational memoir following the stories of those whose lives intersected with the author's...  Read More >>

This book gathers the most recent scientific research on the geological, geotechnical and geophysical aspects of...  Read More >>

Drawing on information gathered from a study of the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 26, 2004, this book explores...  Read More >>

Survivor accounts of the 1900 hurricane that decimated Galveston, as complied by John Coulter in the aftermath of...  Read More >>

This book presents landslide studies using the geographic information system (GIS), which includes not only the...  Read More >>

This is the first book combining research on the Global Environment, Catastrophic Risks and Economic Theory and...  Read More >>

An engaging and suspenseful story about one girl surviving Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013.  Read More >>

This book uses narrative responses to the 2010 Haiti earthquake as a starting point for an analysis of notions of...  Read More >>

This book presents natural hazards and risk--one of the fastest-growing and most relevant fields of pure and applied...  Read More >>

Trapped in Earthquake Canyon is an actual account of surviving the powerful 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake Earthquake and...  Read More >>

Aid led not only to widespread relief and recovery but also to an exacerbation of old forms of inequities and the...  Read More >>

This book discusses the interconnected, complex and emerging risks in today’s societies and deliberates on the various...  Read More >>

This book presents ongoing research and ideas related to earth observations and global change, natural hazards and...  Read More >>

This is an updated edition of the book by the same author: ""Plio-Quaternary volcanism in Italy - Petrology, geochemistry,...  Read More >>

This book serves as a guide to discovering the most interesting volcano sites in Italy. Accompanied by some extraordinary...  Read More >>

This book highlights the aeolian processes in the desert zone of Kazakhstan and Central Asian Deserts, and analyzes...  Read More >>

The first edition of this monograph, presenting accurate and efficient simulations of seismic damage to buildings...  Read More >>

This book, with contributions from international landslide experts, presents in-depth knowledge of theories, practices,...  Read More >>

This book reviews and assesses the various methodologies for site characterization and site effect estimation to...  Read More >>