Natural Disasters
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Death in the Air: The True Story of a Serial Killer, the Great London Smog, and the Strangling of a City
Kate Winkler DawsonCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99London in 1952 was a still recovering from the devastation wrought by World War II: rationing was still in effect, rates of crime and unemployment ...
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The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Professor Peter FrankopanCurrent price €35.51Original price €36.99THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 A BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK FOR THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT AND FINANCIAL ...
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A Century of Storms: The Historical Impact of Hurricanes on Florida
Katrina CharlesCurrent price €16.14Original price €16.99Current price €16.14Original price €16.99Save 5% -
Se Protéger des Inondations et Tempêtes: Guide Pratique: US TRANSLATION INCLUDE
Kharysma Arafat NzabaCurrent price €16.14Original price €16.99Current price €16.14Original price €16.99Save 5% -
Aeolian Desertification: Disaster with Visual Impact in Semi-arid Regions of Andhra Pradesh, South India
Padma Sree PujariCurrent price €116.84Original price €122.99This book summarizes contemporary research on land degradation, desertification, and how such issues relate to socioeconomic growth in developing c...
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Hurricane Milton (A Brewing Storm): Florida''s Urgent Call to Prepare
Nicholas HollifieldCurrent price €16.14Original price €16.99Current price €16.14Original price €16.99Save 5% -
Geohazards and Disasters: Modelling Scenarios as a Challenge for the Future
Elsevier - Health Sciences DivisionCurrent price €121.49Original price €134.99Geohazards and Disasters: Modelling Scenarios as a Challenge for the Future aims to depict an updated view of the most significant technical-scient...
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Sustainable and Innovative Mining Practices: International Conference on Sustainable and Innovative Mining Practices 2023
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €249.84Original price €262.99Sustainable mining is need of hour to fulfil the increasing energy demand of the country and at the same time reduction in rate of carbon emission ...
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Integrated Flood Risk Management: Basic Concepts and the Japanese Experience
Kuniyoshi TakeuchiCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99This book tackles the question of how we can manage flood-related disaster risks, such as from typhoons, monsoons, and torrential rain, which have ...
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Integrated Drought Management, Volume 2: Forecasting, Monitoring, and Managing Risk
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €74.69Original price €82.99The second volume of this comprehensive global perspective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on drought modeling, meteorological predicti...
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Integrated Drought Management, Volume 1: Assessment and Spatial Analyses in Changing Climate
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €73.79Original price €81.99The first volume of this comprehensive global perspective on Integrated Drought Management is focused on understanding drought, causes, and the ass...
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Urban Flood Mitigation Strategies Using Geo Spatial Tools: A Practical Approach for Cities and Towns of Developing World
Narendar KumarCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99The disastrous effects of floods in urban areas of various Indian cities have been increasing in severity and extent over the past decade. This boo...
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Centrifugal Disasters: Trajectories of Vulnerability, Recovery and Resilience
Jacquleen JosephCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected people congregated temporarily often by chance, unlike cent...
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Good Practices for Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage: Practices of ITC Participants
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99This book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating ...
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Educating for Sustainability in Japan: Fostering resilient communities after the triple disaster
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €49.49Original price €54.99Educating for Sustainable Development (ESD) approaches are holistic and interdisciplinary, values-driven, participatory, multi-method, locally rele...
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Rescue of the Bounty: Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy
Douglas A. CampbellCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the thrilling and perfectly paced (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of Bou...
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The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival
Chris BegleyCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Pandemic, climate change, or war: our era is ripe with the odor of doomsday. In movies, books, and more, our imaginations run wild with visions of ...
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International Case Studies in the Management of Disasters: Natural - Manmade Calamities and Pandemics
Emerald Publishing LimitedCurrent price €86.39Original price €95.99International Case Studies in the Management of Disasters presents a diverse range of case studies on how disasters, both natural and manmade, are ...
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Rethinking and Relearning Disaster Adaptations from and within Indigenous Land-Based Perspectives
Arifatul KibriaCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99This book offers a critical exploration into Indigenous knowledge systems, particularly focusing on Indigenous land-based knowledge and practice in...
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Advanced GIScience in Hydro-Geological Hazards: Applications, Modelling and Management
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €183.34Original price €192.99In recent decades, natural hazards have increasingly threatened lives, livelihoods, and economies, with annual losses totalling billions of dollars...
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Florida Hurricane Handbook: New Residents'' Guide to Weathering Storms
Dawn O'ConnorCurrent price €16.14Original price €16.99Current price €16.14Original price €16.99Save 5% -
Understanding Past Earthquakes
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €53.19Original price €55.99This open access book presents the state of the art in research on the characteristics of past earthquakes. It presents an overview of contemporary...
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Climate Change Adaptation in the Built Environment: Transdisciplinary and Innovative Learning
Springer International Publishing AGCurrent price €137.69Original price €152.99Global climate change is one of the greatest environmental threats facing humanity and it is affecting every country on every continent. Recent evi...
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Engineering Geology for a Habitable Earth: IAEG XIV Congress 2023 Proceedings, Chengdu, China: Volume 1: Engineering Geomechanics of Rock and Soil Masses
R. Austin FreemanCurrent price €145.34Original price €152.99This book collects the selected papers of the XIV Congress of the International Association for Engineering Geology and the Environment held in Che...
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