Natural disasters books

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Disaster Forensics: Understanding Root Cause and Complex Causality

Disaster Forensics: Understanding Root Cause and Complex...

Author: Anthony J. Masys
ISBN: 9783319824451
Format: Paperback
$448.77

It opens the black box of disasters by presenting ‘forensic analysis approaches’ to disasters, thereby revealing...  Read More >>

Chicxulub: The Impact and Tsunami: The Story of the Largest Known Asteroid to Hit the Earth

Chicxulub: The Impact and Tsunami: The Story of the...

Author: David Shonting ,  Cathy Ezrailson
ISBN: 9783319818979
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 Km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf...  Read More >>

Proceedings of International Conference on Remote Sensing for Disaster Management: Issues and Challenges in Disaster Management

Proceedings of International Conference on Remote Sensing...

Author: Peddada Jagadeeswara Rao ,  Kakani Nageswara Rao
ISBN: 9783319772752
Format: Hardback
$580.77

The natural disasters are the killer agents which can/can't be predicted even though we have modern technology....  Read More >>

InSAR Observations of Ground Deformation: Application to the Cascades Volcanic Arc

InSAR Observations of Ground Deformation: Application...

Author: Amy Laura Parker
ISBN: 9783319817996
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This doctoral thesis applies measurements of ground deformation from satellite radar using their potential to play...  Read More >>

Clive Owen Adult Coloring Book: Croupier Star and Academy Award Winner, Sin City Lead Actor and Primetime Emmy Award Winner Inspired Adult Coloring Book

Clive Owen Adult Coloring Book: Croupier Star and Academy...

Author: Carla Lewis
ISBN: 9781723508769
Format: Paperback
$26.40

This is work of creative art and satire (17 U.S. Code 107) Clive Owen is an English actor who first gained recognition...  Read More >>

Unravelling the Fukushima Disaster

Unravelling the Fukushima Disaster

Author: Mitsuo Yamakawa (Teikyo University, Japan.) ,  Daisaku Yamamoto (Colgate University, USA.)
ISBN: 9781138624207
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The Fukushima disaster continues to appear in national newspapers when there is another leakage of radiation-contaminated...  Read More >>

Geotechnical Hazards from Large Earthquakes and Heavy Rainfalls

Geotechnical Hazards from Large Earthquakes and Heavy...

Author: Hemanta Hazarika ,  Motoki Kazama
ISBN: 9784431567783
Format: Paperback
$580.77

This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Workshop on Geotechnical Natural Hazards held...  Read More >>

Environment and Earth Observation: Case Studies in India

Environment and Earth Observation: Case Studies in India...

Author: S. Hazra ,  A. Mukhopadhyay
ISBN: 9783319834184
Format: Paperback
$422.37

This book presents relevant and contemporary research on the remote sensing of landscapes, agriculture & forestry,...  Read More >>

Modeling with Digital Ocean and Digital Coast

Modeling with Digital Ocean and Digital Coast

Author: Xin Zhang ,  Lei Wang
ISBN: 9783319826417
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book presents essential new insights in research and applications concerning spatial information technologies...  Read More >>

Lyla: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones

Lyla: Through My Eyes - Natural Disaster Zones

Author: Fleur Beale ,  Lyn White
ISBN: 9781760634773
Format: Paperback
$18.09

A gripping and personal story about one girl's experience of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and its aftermath....  Read More >>

Reducing Lightning Injuries Worldwide

Reducing Lightning Injuries Worldwide

Author: Mary Ann Cooper ,  Ronald L. Holle
ISBN: 9783319775616
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book is a resource for understanding why Lightning continues to be a major health hazard, especially in the...  Read More >>

Peri-Urban Areas and Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Sustainability and Resilience Strategies in the Age of Climate Change

Peri-Urban Areas and Food-Energy-Water Nexus: Sustainability...

Author: Angela Colucci ,  Marcello Magoni
ISBN: 9783319822433
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book explores the nexus among food, energy and water in peri-urban areas, demonstrating how relevant this nexus...  Read More >>

Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction, Migration, Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Shaping Debates and Policies

Identifying Emerging Issues in Disaster Risk Reduction,...

Author: Karen Sudmeier-Rieux ,  Manuela Fernández
ISBN: 9783319816234
Format: Paperback
$448.77

The goal of this book is to explore disaster risk reduction (DRR), migration, climate change adaptation (CCA) and...  Read More >>

Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Hazards

Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Hazards

Author: Walter Leal Filho ,  Haruna Musa
ISBN: 9783319819877
Format: Paperback
$448.77

The contributors cover topics such as climate change adaptation in coastal zones, the evaluation of community land...  Read More >>

Disaster Risk Governance in India and Cross Cutting Issues

Disaster Risk Governance in India and Cross Cutting...

Author: Indrajit Pal ,  Rajib Shaw
ISBN: 9789811098406
Format: Paperback
$290.37

This book provides an analytical discussion of the status of disaster risk reduction and governance in an Indian...  Read More >>

Into the Storm: Big Ships, Bigger Hurricanes, and an Incredible Rescue Mission on the Raging Seas

Into the Storm: Big Ships, Bigger Hurricanes, and an...

Author: Tristram Korten
ISBN: 9781524797881
Format: Hardback
$73.92

A tale of two ships, a ferocious hurricane, and a daring rescue mission--a window into the fascinating world of...  Read More >>

An Overview of the SIGMA Research Project: A European Approach to Seismic Hazard Analysis

An Overview of the SIGMA Research Project: A European...

Author: Alain Pecker ,  Ezio Faccioli
ISBN: 9783319863351
Format: Paperback
$316.77

This book presents a summary of the important outcomes of the SIGMA project related to all aspects of Probabilistic...  Read More >>

Disaster Resilience of Education Systems: Experiences from Japan

Disaster Resilience of Education Systems: Experiences...

Author: Koichi Shiwaku ,  Aiko Sakurai
ISBN: 9784431567448
Format: Paperback
$263.97

Education is regarded as a cross-cutting issue for disaster risk reduction (DRR) through reviewing the Sendai Framework...  Read More >>

Controlling Hurricanes Using Oceanic Water

Controlling Hurricanes Using Oceanic Water

Author: Hensley Pink
ISBN: 9781983087950
Format: Paperback
$26.32

This book presents a concept, morphed into a system design, that is daring, unprecedented, straight forward, verifiable,...  Read More >>

Situational Survival: How To Survive A Plane Crash, A Summer Threats, And During Martial Law

Situational Survival: How To Survive A Plane Crash,...

Author: Patrick Harris ,  Peter Jenkins
ISBN: 9781722349059
Format: Paperback
$44.22

Situational Survival: How To Survive A Plane Crash, A Summer Threats, And During Martial Law Book 1: How To Survive...  Read More >>

The Wyoming Blizzard of 1949: Surviving the Storm

The Wyoming Blizzard of 1949: Surviving the Storm

Author: James C Fuller ,  Sue Castaneda
ISBN: 9781540235374
Format: Hardback
$84.45

Snow, wind and frigid temperatures devastated parts of Wyoming and neighboring states in 1949. For nearly two months,...  Read More >>

Post-Fukushima Activism: Politics and Knowledge in the Age of Precarity

Post-Fukushima Activism: Politics and Knowledge in the...

Author: Azumi Tamura
ISBN: 9781138068865
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Firestorm: Vignettes From The Epicenter of the Tubbs Firestorm - One of the Most Destructive Wildfires in California History

Firestorm: Vignettes From The Epicenter of the Tubbs...

Author: Jon Humboldt Gates ,  Renee Davis
ISBN: 9781878136022
Format: Paperback
$36.20

A personal memoir in the aftermath of the 2017 Tubbs Wildfire in Sonoma County California that burned 5600 homes,...  Read More >>

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