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  • Agent-Based Simulation of Vulnerability Dynamics

    A Case Study of the German North Sea Coast

    by Cilli Sobiech ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This thesis constitutes an extraordinary innovative research approach in transferring the concepts and methods of complex systems to risk research. It ambitiously bridges the barriers between theoretical, empirical and methodical research work and integrates these fields into one comprehensive approach of dealing with uncertainty in socio-ecological systems. The developed agent-based simulation ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Krakatoa

    The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

    by Simon Winchester ...
    The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic volcanic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth’s most dangerous volcano — Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic natural disaster — was ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Fire and Brimstone

    The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

    by Michael Punke ...
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant—the basis for the award-winning film starring Leonardo DiCaprio—tells the remarkable story of the worst hard-rock mining disaster in American history.A half-hour before midnight on June 8, 1917, a fire broke out in the North Butte Mining Company's Granite Mountain shaft. Sparked more than two thousand feet below ground, the fire spewed ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Volcanoes! That Go Boom

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    How does a nature book about volcanoes spark a child's imagination? Children are attracted by vivid colors and the potential of excitement. A nature book filled with bright pictures of volcanoes, mountains and hot lava is sure to be of interest to young minds. Youngsters are exposed to volcanic activity in news and movies. A book that explores the realities of volcanic activity is sure to be a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mother Nature Is Awesome (From Volcanoes To Earthquakes)

    Children's Books for Nature

    by Speedy Publishing ...
    Series series Books For Kids Series
    As children see things in our movie theaters and television sets, they are probably often left wondering why they are not able to see some of the scenery in their very own hometowns. This is when they begin to learn how large the world is, and what all is contained within it. A Mother Nature Is Awesome (From Volcanoes to Earthquakes) Picture Book will greatly help them to understand that there is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Volcanoes in Human History

    The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions

    by Jelle Zeilinga de Boer, Donald Theodore Sanders ...
    Series series Princeton Science Library
    The classic account of how volcanism has shaped human culture and science, from the Bronze Age eruption that destroyed Minoan Crete to Mount St. HelensWhen the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as one hundred thousand people perished from the blast and ensuing famine. Gases and dust particles ejected into the atmosphere changed weather patterns around the world, resulting in ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America

    Special Volumes of Geomorphology

    by Edgardo Latrubesse ...
    Series Book 13 - Developments in Earth Surface Processes
    The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are written by selected specialists of each country. Human-induced disasters are also included, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil. The receding of South-American glaciers as a ... Read more

    $131.39 USD

  • Dynamic Tectonics and Karst

    by Stefan Shanov, Konstantin Kostov ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The karstic caves are favorable sites for tectonic events detecting, representing a conservative medium of three-dimensional framework where the tectonic deformations are well preserved. They also provide an environment conducive to dating and determining the geometrical parameters of past seismotectonic events. During the last three decades the study of dynamic tectonics and recent geodynamics in ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Chicxulub: The Impact and Tsunami

    The Story of the Largest Known Asteroid to Hit the Earth

    by David Shonting, Cathy Ezrailson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 Km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of asteroids and the likelihood of future Earth-impacts. The story then turns to the discovery of a global sediment layer attributed to the fallout from the impact and a piecing together of the evidence ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Carbonate Depositional Systems: Assessing Dimensions and Controlling Parameters

    The Bahamas, Belize and the Persian/Arabian Gulf

    Edited by Hildegard Westphal, Bernhard Riegl, Gregor P. Eberli ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Carbonate sediments are of increasing relevance for archives of past environmental conditions and for economical reasons in areas of geothermal energy and hydrocarbon reservoirs. Complex interaction of physical and chemical parameters with biological parameters determines the architecture and composition of carbonate sedimentary bodies. This book closes some of the still existing gaps in our ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Design

    Edited by Michele Maugeri, Claudio Soccodato ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Pseudo-static analysis is still the most-used method to assess the stability of geotechnical systems that are exposed to earthquake forces. However, this method does not provide any information about the deformations and permanent displacements induced by seismic activity. Moreover, it is questionable to use this approach when geotechnical systems are affected by frequent and rare seismic events. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Developments in Earthquake Geotechnics

    Edited by Susumu Iai ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a timely review and summary of the recent advances in state-of-the-art earthquake geotechnics. The earthquake disasters in Japan and New Zealand in 2011 prompted the urgent need for the state-of-the-art earthquake geotechnics to be put into practice for disaster mitigation. By reviewing the developments in earthquake geotechnics over more than half a century, this unique book ... Read more

    $143.09 USD