Natural Disasters
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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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Tsunami Forecasting & Preparedness
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£52.99| /Congress raised concerns about the possible vulnerability of U.S. coastal areas to tsunamis, and the adequacy of early warnings for coastal areas, ...
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Tsunami Hazard Assessment at U.S. Nuclear Power Plants
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£141.99| /This book examines the tsunami phenomenon with the focus on its relevance for hazard assessment at nuclear power plant sites. Three tsunamigenic me...
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Tsunamis
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£203.99| /A collection of articles that showcases the diversity of tsunami science. This is truly an interdisciplinary field that brings together seismologis...
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Tsunamis
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£247.99| /A tsunami is a series of water waves that is caused when a large volume of a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. Earthquakes, vo...
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Tsunamis
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£69.99| /For most of us, the impression of the word "tsunami" is a combination of multiple elements of action movie, thriller, drama and science fiction, wh...
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Volcanic Eruptions
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£159.99| /Natural catastrophic events such as volcano eruptions have greatly affected environments in wide regions around the world. Ash and gases impelled b...
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Weathering the Storm
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£92.99| /This book is the hearing that took place in front of the U.S. House of Representatives on June 10th 2011. It provides a State and Local Perspective...
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What You Take with You
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Four years after Therese Greenwood and her husband moved to Fort McMurray, Alberta, their new community was shattered by one of the worst wildfires...
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Wildfire Risk
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£78.99| /Various factors have emerged to increase the risk of catastrophic wildfires in our National Forests. Years of suppression of natural fires, an incr...
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Wildfires
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£243.99| /The present book intends to outline different approaches regarding wildland fires, showing different perspectives and challenges present in the beg...
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Wildfires
Nova Science Publishers, Inc£203.99| /Chapter 1 develops a better understanding of the health impacts of wildfires and what should be done to minimise those impacts. It looks closely at...
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Wildfires
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£106.99| /The 2000 and 2002 fire seasons were, by most standards, among the worst in the past. Many argue that the threat of severe wildfires has grown, beca...
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