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• Author(s): Mohamed Gad-el-Hak • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyAbout the Book Extreme events - including climatic events, such a...

• Author(s): Rajesh Arora | Preeti Arora • Publisher: CABI • Publisher Imprint: CABI • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Allied Health Services - Emergency Medical ServicesAbout the Book Disaster management is an increasingly important ...

• Author(s): Jacquleen Joseph | Surinder Jaswal • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentThis book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected peo...

• Author(s): Tuhin Ghosh | Indrajit Pal • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaNatural disasters are more common now than they have been ever befor...

• Author(s): Bill Mcguire • Publisher: Hodder Arnold • Publisher Imprint: Hodder Arn • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentIn the opening year of the new millennium, an astonishing one in every thirty people on the planet were affected by floods, s...

• Author(s): Heimburger • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-ISTE • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental - GeneralJapan is one of those countries most often affected by powerful natural hazards: earthquakes, tsunamis...

• Author(s): Adenrele Awotona • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyWe are witnessing an ever-increasing level and intensity of disasters from Ecua...

• Author(s): Kapur • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Foundation Books • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a differe...

• Author(s): Rajendra K. Pandey • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentThis book explores policies, structures, and processes of disaster management in India examining key theore...

• Author(s): Deeming • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeneralFrom the Back CoverAN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE FOUNDATIONS, RESEARCH AND PRACTICES OF COMMUNITY DISASTER RE...

• Author(s): Francisco Castro Rego | Penelope Morgan | Paulo Fernandes • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Natural DisastersFrom the Back CoverThis textbook provides students an...

• Author(s): LENAT • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-ISTE • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Natural DisastersThe impact of natural disasters has become an important and ever-growing preoccupation for modern societies. Volc...

• Author(s): Ranjan Chakrabarti • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentClimate, Calamity and the Wild: An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta c.1737–1947 offers a climatic and environmen...

• Author(s): Alejandro Lopez-Carresi | Others • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefThere is a perennial gap between theory and practice, betw...

• Author(s): Theresa Deichert • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentThe Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011 left Japan grappling with profound social, political, and e...

• Author(s): Shanmugam P. Subbiah • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Foundation Books • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment

• Author(s): Edgardo Latrubesse • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the...

• Author(s): K.R. Gupta • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentGlobal Warming is one of the most serious threats that the planet Earth and its inhabitants may ever face. The Earth’s climate has cha...

• Author(s): DAVIS • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyA new edition of a unique textbook that provides an exhaustive treatment of the world's different coasts--with ...

• Author(s): Kelman • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. W...

• Author(s): SEMPERE-TORRES • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyFrom the Back Cover An up-to-date discussion of the latest in weather-related ev...

• Author(s): Ramesh p. Singh • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeneralOver the years, the interactions between land, ocean, biosphere and atmosphere hav...

• Author(s): Darius Bartlett • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Chapman Hall • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeneralThe Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 has identified four ...

• Author(s): N.P. Rao • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentThe efforts made at the international level by the United Nations Agencies on Environmental destination problems and saving the earth fr...

• Author(s): Mili Ghose • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentGlobal climate change poses a genuine risk to the survival of the human species and raises questions regarding human existence on...

• Author(s): Alam | Asraful • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentThis volume addresses key issues related to agricultural disaster risk, resilient agriculture, and livelihoods....

• Author(s): Schumann Bates Apel Aronica • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyFrom the Back CoverFlooding can be a costly natural disaster in terms of damage to la...

• Author(s): Chamila (Don) Subasinghe • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment

• Author(s): Col. Bhaskar Sarkar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentMan is powerless in the face of the wrath of Nature. Natural disasters like earthquakes, floods and cyclones cannot be prevent...

• Author(s): Samuel Mullen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Industrial Health & SafetyAn increase in major natural disasters--and the growing number of damaging eve...

• Author(s): Suzanne Lacasse | Luciano Picarelli • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Civil - Soil & RockMany countries are increasingly threatened by major landslide d...

• Author(s): Penning-Rowsell | Edmund C • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Natural DisastersThis Handbook provides a state-of-the-science review of research and practice ...

• Author(s): John Gray | K. Clive Thompson • Publisher: Royal Society of Che • Publisher Imprint: RSC • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)By leading experts, this is an up-to-dat...

• Author(s): Mitsuhiro Toriumi • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Physics - GeophysicsFrom the Back CoverThe recent explosion of global and regional seismicity data in the worl...

• Author(s): Dr Pam Hazelton • Publisher: CABI • Publisher Imprint: CABI Publishing • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Agriculture - Agronomy - Soil ScienceUnderstanding Soils in Urban Environments is a concise book explaining how urba...

• Author(s): Eline Boelee • Publisher: CABI • Publisher Imprint: CABI • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyAbout the Book Water protection, food production and ecosystem health are worldwide issues. Changes in the ...