Natural Disasters
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Global Disaster Management
SBS Publishers (IND)£56.99| /Disasters are events which disrupt the lives of people and cause large-scale social or economic damage, such as floods, oil spills or major fires. ...
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Haiti
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£194.99| /The largest earthquake ever recorded in Haiti devastated parts of the country, including the capital, on January 12, 2010. The quake, centred about...
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Hurricane Damage
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£172.99| /Damage from hurricanes is expected to increase significantly in the coming decades because of the effects of climate change and coastal development...
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Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£163.99| /Hurricane Sandy struck the United States in October 2012, causing an estimated $65 billion in damages. FEMA provides assistance to survivors throug...
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Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Strategy & Progress Update
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£221.99| /Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast with incredible power and fury, wreaking havoc in communities across the region. Entire neighbourhoods were f...
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Hurricanes
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /In 1954 Hurricane Hazel caused such destruction around Lake Ontario that it's a vivid memory half a century later. In 2003 Hurricane Juan so devast...
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Hurricanes and Wildfires
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /In 2017, four sequential disastershurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and the California wildfires -- created an unprecedented demand for federal disa...
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Hurricanes, Wildfires and Flooding
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /Chapter 1 provides a short overview of issues Congress may consider in its oversight of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA's) federal ...
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Intelligent Systems for Crisis Management
Scitus Academics LLC£172.99| /Many aspects related to the efficient collection and integration of geo-information, applied semantics and situation awareness for disaster managem...
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Issues in Disaster Recovery and Assistance
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£141.99| /In both 2016 and 2017, 15 separate U.S. disasters resulted in losses exceeding $1 billion each. FEMA provides PA grants to state and local governme...
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Landslides
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£154.99| /A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debri...
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Meltdown
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£143.99| /Why the word Meltdown in the title of the book? With the world heating up, bush fires wiping out whole communities, money markets and economic syst...
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Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction
Scitus Academics LLC£172.99| /This book discussed on mountain regions occupy approximately one fifth of the Earth's land surface and cover 54 % of Asia's land mass. Mountain ran...
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National Disasters & Emergencies
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£163.99| /When there is a catastrophe in the United States, state and local governments lead response activities, invoking state and local legal authorities ...
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National Emergency Responses
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£97.99| /This book is an overview of the National Response Framework (NRF) and how the nation conducts an all-hazards response. It is built upon scalable, f...
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National Flood Insurance
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£150.99| /The most destructive storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season, Superstorm Sandy smashed ashore on the U.S. East Coast in October 2012 after cutt...
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National Response & Disaster Recovery Frameworks
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£194.99| /The National Response Framework is a guide to how the Nation responds to all types of disasters and emergencies. It is built on scalable, flexible,...
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Natural Catastrophes
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£159.99| /The four major types of natural environmental hazards that can result in property damages or lost lives are (1) geophysical events, such as earthqu...
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Natural Disaster Management
SBS Publishers & Distributors PVT Ltd (IND)£69.99| /CONTENTS: Disaster Management: Use of Technologies; Early Warnings for Natural Disasters; Disaster Management: The Challenges for a National Geogra...
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Natural Disasters
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /Disasters are amongst the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Natural disasters have particularly witnessed an overwhelming escalation in the ...
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Natural Disasters
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /In 2017, four sequential disasters - hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and the California wildfires - created an unprecedented demand for federal dis...
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Natural Disasters
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£212.99| /In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the prevention, risk factors and management of natural disasters. Topics discuss...
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Natural Disasters
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£243.99| /Typhoons pose a threat for coastal populations, offshore and onshore industries, shipping, agriculture, or forestry. Thus it is of great interest t...
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Natural Resources
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£194.99| /A significant amount of natural resources such as lands, waters, biodiversity, ecosystem services etc. are all part of an agricultural system. Mode...
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Novel Approaches in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£243.99| /Nowadays, governments are more often than not confronted with crises that are so unforeseen (i.e., the 9/11 attacks), so unexpected in nature or in...
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Oil Spills
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£327.99| /This book provides bibliographic resources on the response, restoration and research initiatives of oil spills, most notably, the Deepwater Horizon...
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Recovering from a disaster
Portal Books£35.00| /This book is about what happened in the southern district of Hambantota during the disaster, and in the relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction p...
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Recovering from Hurricane Katrina
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£97.99| /This book is the hearing that took place on September 14th 2005 before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on the recovery ...
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Risk Assessment for Nuclear Power Plants Against Natural Disasters
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£203.99| /In China, a lot of Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) are in the stages of planning, design, or construction. Thus it is necessary to do a comprehensive re...
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Sandy Recovery Improvement Act & Supplementary Funding for Disaster Relief
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£84.99| /Given its size, strength, location and the enormity of its impact, Hurricane Sandy was a storm of historic proportions and importance. The damage i...
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Social Media & Disasters
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£61.99| /The development of new technologies that have emerged since the mid-1990s has led to Internet-based applications known as "social media" that enabl...
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Solar Activity & Forest Fires
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£52.99| /This monograph especially emphasises the importance of the scope, by which forest fires, from year to year endanger the environment, including casu...
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Terra Flamma
Schiffer£31.99| /From the towering pines of Shasta Trinity National Forest, to the chaparral scrub of San Diego's Mexican border, to Yosemite and the Western Sierra...
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The Chinchaga Firestorm
University of Alberta Press (CA)£29.99| /In 1950, the biggest firestorm documented in North America--one fire alone burned 3,500,000 acres of boreal forest in northern Alberta and British ...
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The National Flood Insurance Program
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£172.99| /The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) was established by the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 and was most recently reauthorized to May 3...
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Tornadoes & Windstorms
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£172.99| /Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes affect communities across the United States every year, causing fatalities, destroying property and crops, and d...
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