Natural disasters Books

Nouvelle Description Des Glacieres V3: Vallees De Glace Et Glaciers (1785) est un livre �����crit par Marc-Th�����odore Bourrit. Il s'agit d'une description d�����taill�����e des vall�����es de glace et des glaciers des Alpes suisses et fran�����aises...

""Condition Of The Fur-Seal Herd Of Alaska And The Conduct Of The Public Business On The Pribilof Islands"" is a book written by Henry Wood Elliott in 1913. The book provides a detailed account of the state of the fur-seal herd in Alaska and the...

The History and Description of Fossil Fuel, the Collieries, and Coal Trade of Great Britain (1835) by John Holland is a comprehensive account of the coal industry in Great Britain during the early 19th century. The book provides a detailed historical...

""Sea Fishing"" is a comprehensive guide to the art of fishing in the ocean, written by John Bickerdyke and originally published in 1895. The book covers a wide range of topics related to sea fishing, including the different types of fish that can be...

Revue G�����n�����rale des �����crits de Linne V1 (1789) de Pulteney, Richard est un livre qui d�����crit les �����crits de Carl von Linn�����, un naturaliste su�����dois du XVIIIe si�����cle. Le livre est divis����� en plusieurs sections qui couvrent...

Il libro ""Ragionamento Istorico Intorno All������� Eruzione Del Vesuvio"" di Gaetano De Bottis, pubblicato nel 1779, presenta una descrizione completa dell'eruzione del Vesuvio del 1779. L'autore, un geologo e naturalista italiano, analizza gli eventi...

Hurricane seasons have become overactive since 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit. The only longitudinal study on a single group of women disaster survivors in America, The Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina brings overlooked voices to the forefront as...

""A Few of Hamilton's Letters Including His Description of the Great West Indian Hurricane of 1772"" is a book written by Gertrude Atherton and published in 1903. The book is a collection of letters written by Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding...

Palaemon's Creed Reviewed and Examined V1 is a book written by David Wilson and published in 1762. The book is a critical examination of the theological beliefs and teachings of Palaemon, a prominent figure in the Christian church during the 17th century...

Bones of Mammals from Indian Sites in Cuba and Santo Domingo is a book written by Gerrit Smith Miller in 1916. The book is a comprehensive study of the mammal fossils found in the Indian sites of Cuba and Santo Domingo. The author, who was a renowned...

""A Revision of the Bembicine Wasps of America North of Mexico"" is a scientific book written by John Bernard Parker in 1917. The book presents a comprehensive study of the Bembicine wasps, which are a type of solitary wasp found across North America...

""A Critical Examination Of The Flints From Brixham Cavern"" is a scientific book written by Nicholas Whitley and published in 1877. The book provides a detailed analysis and evaluation of the flints found in Brixham Cavern, a prehistoric site located in...

A crisis urban survival guide & planner: How to (relatively sanely) survive & manage a crisis.Leading security & crisis specialist, Susanne Skov Diemer, guides you through scenarios & cases, challenges & opportunities and the 'How's'...

""The Horseman: A Work on Horsemanship"" is a comprehensive guide to horse riding and horse selection written by H.R. Hershberger and first published in 1844. This book is designed to provide readers with practical advice on how to ride and care for...

Memoria e Domande delle Rappresentanze Provinciali Venete e Mantovana: per la Riforma nella Parte Idraulica (1868) ����� un libro scritto dalla Deputazione Provinciale di Mantova. Il testo si concentra sulla necessit������ di riformare il sistema...

The Antarctic Regions is a book written by Karl Fricker and published in 1904. It is a comprehensive account of the geography, climate, wildlife, and history of the Antarctic regions. The book covers the expeditions of explorers like James Cook, James...

Elements of Natural History and Chemistry V2 is a book written by Antoine Francois De Fourcroy and published in 1790. The book is a comprehensive guide to the natural world and the chemical processes that govern it. It covers a wide range of topics,...

""Storia della Terra di Montottone nelle Marche"" ����� un libro storico scritto nel 1863 da Achille Marini. Il libro racconta la storia del comune di Montottone, situato nella regione italiana delle Marche, dalle origini fino al XIX secolo. L'autore...

Even though disaster losses frequently occur in rural and agricultural areas, a substantial number of the prevailing disaster research has focused on urban areas, often failing to notice rural populations, communities, and rural development as a whole...

This book focuses on landslide hazard mapping, identification of site-specific drivers of landslide occurrence, and assessment of landslide susceptibility, vulnerability, risk and mitigation using advanced techniques and approaches. The book encompasses...

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The papers discuss advances in the fields of soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake...

This book presents selected papers by the keynote speakers and other presenters from various disciplines and includes their opinions and evaluations. The Fourth Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction (4th GSRIDRR, 2019):...

The book provides an understanding about the disaster impacts, vulnerability assessment, adaptation pathways and mitigation for strengthening the resilience of the society to various hazards. Multi- dimensionality of disasters is depicted by various...

This book brings together contributions from world renowned researchers and practitioners in the field of geotechnical engineering. The chapters of this book are based on the keynote and invited lectures delivered at the 7th International Conference on...

Research on historical earthquakes and tsunamis in the Iberian Peninsula has made great strides in recent years, from diverse scientific fields ranging from geology to archaeology. In addition to the famous earthquake and tsunami of 1755, which intensely...

This volume brings together contributions from world renowned researchers and practitioners  in the field of geotechnical engineering. The chapters of this book are based on the keynote and invited lectures delivered at the 7th International...

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The papers discuss advances in the fields of soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake...

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The papers discuss advances in the fields of soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake...

This book, for the first time, introduces comprehensively all main topics of lifeline earthquake engineering, including the structure analysis, network evaluation, and network design. The distinctive features involved in this book are the construction of...

This book explains the physics behind seismic ground motions and seismic waves to graduate and upper undergraduate students as well as to professionals. Both seismic ground motions and seismic waves are terms for "shaking" due to earthquakes, but it is...

This book is highly informative and carefully presented, providing scientific insights into the flood resources utilization in the Yangtze River Basin both for scholars and decision-makers. The book is for the purpose of analyzing the potential...

This book focuses on mathematical theory and numerical simulation related to various areas of continuum mechanics, such as fracture mechanics, (visco)elasticity, optimal shape design, modelling of earthquakes and Tsunami waves, material structure,...

This book presents a case study-based analysis of the consequences of external interventions, critically evaluating them from community perspectives. Communities - from rural to urban, and around the world - that are experiencing disasters and changes in...

Based on more than 12 years of systematic investigation on earthquake disaster simulation of civil infrastructures, this book covers the major research outcomes including a number of novel computational models, high performance computing methods and...

The expected time of impact, also known as the mean first passage time (MFPT) to reach failure, is a critical metric in the management of natural disasters. The complexity of the dynamics governing natural disasters lead to stochastic behaviour...

This book focuses on land and disaster governance in Asian countries. The Asian region has become increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters, including floods, cyclones, storms, earthquakes, drought, typhoons and tsunamis. Further, as a result of...

As evidenced dramatically and tragically in 2011 alone,earthquakes cause devastation and their consequences in terms of human suffering and economic disaster can last for years or even decades. The VAN method of earthquake...

This book deals with the theory and the applications of a new time domain, termed natural time domain, that has been forwarded by the authors almost a decade ago (P.A. Varotsos, N.V. Sarlis and E.S. Skordas, Practica of Athens...

The first part of this book reviews the basics of atmospheric chemistry, radiation transport, and optical spectroscopy before detailing the principles underlying DOAS. The second part describes the design and application of DOAS instruments as well as...

This book addresses earthquakes, with a special focus on the Ghorka earthquake, which struck parts of central Nepal in April 2015. Drawing on this disastrous event, it closely examines various aspects of earthquakes in contributions prepared by...

These proceedings include most of the available information on this major seismic event and its consequences. With an estimated moment magnitude of 7.7 and a heavy toll in terms of human and economic losses, it ranks as the largest...

Distinctively, this book brings together an end-to-end understanding of heatwaves, that is, a consideration of their causes, consequences for human and natural systems and societal responses to them in the form of adaptation and mitigation actions...

This book investigates the physical effects of a lightning flash on a person near the down conductor of a lightning protection system. These effects are the touch voltage, the step voltage and the side flash. For this purpose, a full-scale simulation...

This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural and geotechnical engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 2nd Eurasian Conference on OpenSees-Open System for...

This book explores many recent techniques including ANN, fuzzy logic, hydraulic models and IWRM utilized for integrated water resources management, a real challenge in India for obtaining high irrigation efficiency.The book deals with topics of current...

This richly illustrated book describes statistical extreme value theory for the quantification of natural hazards, such as strong winds, floods and rainfall, and discusses an interdisciplinary approach to allow the theoretical methods to be applied. The...

Based on the field investigation and the summary of the published research results of the April 20, 2013, Lushan, Sichuan, China, MS7.0 earthquake, having occurred along the same fault zone which accommodated the May 12, 2008, Wenchuan MS8.0 earthquake,...