Disasters category: 785 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2013
This book presents the latest research developments in geoinformation science, which includes all the sub-disciplines of the subject, such as: geomatic engineering, GIS, remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, digital cartography, etc.
by Mike Doyle
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Claiming the lives of seven adults and seventeen children, the Belvidere tornado struck the most vulnerable at the worst possible time: just as school let out. More than five hundred people suffered injuries. New interviews and fascinating archival history underscore the horrific drama, as well as the...
Rivers by Design
State Power and the Origins of U.S. Flood Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
The United States has one of the largest and costliest flood control systems in the world, even though only a small proportion of its land lies in floodplains. Rivers by Design traces the emergence of the mammoth U.S. flood management system, which is overseen by the federal government but implemented...
by Alpheus Chewning
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
The waters of coastal Virginia swirl with tales both tragic and heroic. Join Virginia Beach native Alpheus Chewning as he recounts harrowing stories of storms at sea, loss of life and fortune and the heroism of the United States Life-Saving Service. Marvel at the blunders and bungles that have plagued...
Full-3D Seismic Waveform Inversion
Theory, Software and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
This book introduces a methodology for solving the seismic inverse problem using purely numerical solutions built on 3D wave equations and which is free of the approximations or simplifications that are common in classical seismic inversion methodologies and therefore applicable to arbitrary 3D geological...
by Chen Reis, Tania Bernath
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2016
Becoming an International Humanitarian Aid Worker draws on the experiences of those currently working and those hiring people to work in humanitarian aid today, and an analysis of job postings over a 9-month period. It provides relevant information and advice to help jobseekers make more informed...
by Angelo Torres
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Are you new to the idea of prepping or are you trying to find out what this word is all about? Are you considering joining a group of preppers but want to have a good idea of what it entails before you do so? This book is the right book for you. Whatever category you belong to, you will have answers...
Site Characterization in Karst and Pseudokarst Terraines
Practical Strategies and Technology for Practicing Engineers, Hydrologists and Geologists
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
This book provides a practical strategy for obtaining a more complete and accurate geologic site characterization. The strategy and methods to characterize complex geologic settings are readily available. The strategy utilizes readily available technology, basic science and good, old-fashioned common...
Tohoku Recovery
Challenges, Potentials and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused extensive damage in various sectors. Through the recovery process, special lessons are being learned and applied in the affected region. This book attempts to draw lessons from different issues and sectors...
Institutional Partnerships in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems
A Compilation of Seven National Good Practices and Guiding Principles
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This book documents seven examples of Early Warning Systems for hydrometeorological and other hazards that have proven effective in reducing losses due to these hazards. The cases studied encompass a variety of climatic regimes and stages of economic development, raging across the industrialized countries...
by Dr. R. K. Dave
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
This book “Disaster Management in India: Challenges and Strategies” - provides a practical and realistic understanding of the evolving status of disaster management in India. The book discusses techno-legal systems for disaster management and their real-life effectiveness based upon the author’s...
A sexta extinção
Uma história não natural
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Ao longo dos últimos quinhentos milhões de anos, o mundo passou por cinco brutais extinções em massa, nas quais sua biodiversidade caiu de maneira abrupta. Dessas, a mais conhecida foi a que eliminou, entre outros seres vivos, os dinossauros, quando um asteroide colidiu com o planeta há 65 milhões...
Nuclear Meltdown, USA
Could Japan's Power Plant Disaster Happen Here?
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2012
Sitting near four significant fault lines on the coastline of California, Diablo Canyon is just one of 65 nuclear power plants in the United States. After the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, Americans are now asking, "Could it happen here?"
This e-book original, based on an...
by Elizabeth H. Clare
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
The Austin Dam Disaster of 1900 recreates the era of Gay Nineties Austin, then--as now--a city on the rise and on the make. In 1891, at the behest of ambitious city fathers, the little city of just 15,000 people gambled its future on a project of breathtaking size--a massive hydroelectric dam across...