Search results for “[Subject: natural-disasters]”

• 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): 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): GATES • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: TerrorismEARTH’S FURY Natural disasters are any catastrophic loss of life and/or property caused by a natural event or situation. ...

• 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): 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): Peter Bunyard • Publisher: Floris Books • Publisher Imprint: Floris B. • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: WeatherAbout the Book Describing and exploring extreme weather events, including Hurricane Katrina, the Alpine flood...

• 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): Roig Benoit • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Acad Pr • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Natural DisastersManagement of Emerging Public Health Issues and Risks: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Changing Environ...

• 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): Colker Ryan • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: But-Hein • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Natural DisastersOptimizing Community Infrastructure: Resilience in the Face of Shocks and Stresses examines the resilience...

• 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): Charles Officer • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc • BISAC: ScienceIn New England, 1816 was called the Year Without a Summer. Crops failed throughout America and, in Western Euro...

• 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): 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): 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): Todd A. DeMitchell • Publisher: Hachette Children's Group • Publisher Imprint: Hachette Children's Group • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentExplore Earth's natural disasters through mapsWhat are natural disasters and why do they hap...

• 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): Razmig Keucheyan • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyAbout the Book In the midst of the current ecological crisis, there is often lofty t...

• 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): 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): Nasreen | Mahbuba • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Ecosystems & Habitats - Coastal Regions & ShorelinesThis book addresses disaster and disaster ri...

• Author(s): Claire B. Rubin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Disasters & Disaster ReliefAbout the Book The spate of disaster events ranging from major to catastrop...

• Author(s): Davies | Tim • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyFrom the Back CoverNatural disasters are occasional intense events that disturb Earth's surface, but their impact can be felt long after. Haz...

• Author(s): Samui Pijush • Publisher: ELSEVIER • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Seismology & VolcanismIntegrated Disaster Science and Management: Global Case Studies in Mitigation a...

• 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): JC Gaillard • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in dis...

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

• Author(s): Simon Winchester • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books, Limited (UK) • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentChronicles the destruction of Indonesian island of Krakatoa in 1883. This book describes how one island and it...

• 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): Tedim Fantina • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Extreme Wildfire Events and Disasters: Root Causes and New Mana...

• 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): Lawrence R. Walker • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyAbout the Book This book provides the first global synthesis of the biology of disturbed ha...

• 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): Josiah Dwight Whitney • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earthquakes & Volcanoes""Earthquakes, Volcanoes And Mountain-Building"" by Josiah D. ...