Natural disasters books

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Disaster Preparedness and Management

Disaster Preparedness and Management

Author: Judah Carter
ISBN: 9781682864913
Format: Hardback
$382.77

Disaster preparedness is the process in which systematic programmes are created to reduce potential damages that...  Read More >>

Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides: Volume 3 Advances in Landslide Technology

Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides: Volume...

Author: Matjaž Mikoš ,  Željko Arbanas
ISBN: 9783319534862
Format: Hardback
$580.77

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Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides: Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025

Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides: Volume...

Author: Kyoji Sassa ,  Matjaž Mikoš
ISBN: 9783319535005
Format: Hardback
$158.37

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Hurricane Agnes in the Wyoming Valley

Hurricane Agnes in the Wyoming Valley

Author: Bryan Glahn
ISBN: 9781540216489
Format: Hardback
$84.45

"Although history records the hurricane that struck northeastern Pennsylvania in June 1972 as ""Agnes,"" residents...  Read More >>

Urban Planning for Disaster Recovery

Urban Planning for Disaster Recovery

Author: Alan March (University of Melbourne, Australia) ,  Maria Kornakova (Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Australia <br>School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9780128042762
Format: Paperback
$263.87

Urban Planning for Disaster Recovery focuses on disaster recovery from the perspective of urban planning, an underutilized...  Read More >>

Governing Disasters: Engaging Local Populations in Humanitarian Relief

Governing Disasters: Engaging Local Populations in Humanitarian...

Author: Shahla F. Ali (The University of Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781107514225
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Drawing on international, state and private sector case studies and a survey of sixty-nine members of the post-disaster...  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: 9783319581538
Format: Hardback
$316.77

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Understanding Climate Change through Gender Relations

Understanding Climate Change through Gender Relations...

Author: Susan Buckingham ,  Virginie Le Masson
ISBN: 9781138957671
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Attempts to understand the production and impacts of climate change and proposals for mitigation and adaptation...  Read More >>

The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions

The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty...

Author: Paul B. Wignall
ISBN: 9780691176024
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the...  Read More >>

Natural Hazards, Second Edition: Explanation and Integration

Natural Hazards, Second Edition: Explanation and Integration...

Author: Burrell E. Montz (East Carolina University, United States) ,  Graham A. Tobin (University of South Florida, United States)
ISBN: 9781462529186
Format: Hardback
$213.00

What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters? What human and structural factors need to be addressed...  Read More >>

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal...

Author: Peter Brannen ,  Adam Verner
ISBN: 9781538416761
Format: Audio
$105.57

"""As new groundbreaking research suggests that climate change played a major role in the most extreme catastrophes...  Read More >>

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal...

Author: Peter Brannen ,  Adam Verner
ISBN: 9781538416785
Format: Audio
$105.57

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Landslide Science and Practice: Volume 1: Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility and Hazard Zoning

Landslide Science and Practice: Volume 1: Landslide...

Author: Claudio Margottini ,  Paolo Canuti
ISBN: 9783662522288
Format: Paperback
$448.77

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Storm over the Bay: The People of Corpus Christi and Their Port

Storm over the Bay: The People of Corpus Christi and...

Author: Mary Jo O'Rear
ISBN: 9781623495503
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction

Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction...

Author: Roberto E. Barrios
ISBN: 9780803262966
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Presents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters: southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch;...  Read More >>

SYNER-G: Typology Definition and Fragility Functions for Physical Elements at Seismic Risk: Buildings, Lifelines, Transportation Networks and Critical Facilities

SYNER-G: Typology Definition and Fragility Functions...

Author: K. Pitilakis ,  H. Crowley
ISBN: 9789402406900
Format: Paperback
$290.37

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Repairing Domestic Climate Displacement: The Peninsula Principles

Repairing Domestic Climate Displacement: The Peninsula...

Author: Scott Leckie (Displacement Solutions, AUS) ,  Chris Huggins (University of Ottawa, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138064980
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Climate change, sometimes thought of as a problem for the future, is already impacting people’s lives around the...  Read More >>

Rhode Island Shipwrecks

Rhode Island Shipwrecks

Author: Charlotte Taylor
ISBN: 9781467125062
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Rhode Island, the Ocean State, has more shipwrecks per square mile than any other state. The south coast and Block...  Read More >>

Economic Consequence Analysis of Disasters: The E-CAT Software Tool

Economic Consequence Analysis of Disasters: The E-CAT...

Author: Adam Rose ,  Fynnwin Prager
ISBN: 9789811025662
Format: Hardback
$171.57

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