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  • Geomorphology and Physical Oceanography of the Lakshadweep Coral Islands in the Indian Ocean

    de L. Sheela Nair, T.S. Shahul Hameed, T.N. Prakash ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Lakshadweep islands are a group of 36 coral islands in the Indian Ocean. These small islands are unique for their aquatic bio-diversity and vast blue lagoons. This book presents the results of studies done by the authors during the period 1990 to 2009 that address the beach morphology, hydrodynamics, energy resources and management options with special reference to the issue of both natural ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

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  • Volcanoes! That Go Boom

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Volcanoes in Human History

    The Far-Reaching Effects of Major Eruptions

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $13.69 USD

  • Assessment of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards

    A European Perspective

    Edición de Jörn Birkmann, Stefan Kienberger, David Alexander ...
    Assessment of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards covers the vulnerability of human and environmental systems to climate change and eight natural hazards: earthquakes, floods, landslides, avalanches, forest fires, drought, coastal erosion, and heat waves. This book is an important contribution to the field, clarifying terms and investigating the nature of vulnerability to hazards in general and in ... Leer más

    $124.99 USD

  • Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards

    Edición de Sven Fuchs, Thomas Thaler ...
    In recent years there has been growing recognition that disaster risk cannot be reduced by focusing solely on physical hazards without considering factors that influence socio-economic impact. Vulnerability: the susceptibility to the damaging impacts of hazards, and resilience: the ability to recover, have become popular concepts in natural hazard and risk management. This book provides a ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Developments in Earthquake Geotechnics

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Flood Control Management for the City and Surroundings of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

    de Mashael Mohammed Al Saud ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    During the past years, Saudi Arabia has been affected by particularly severe torrential rains and floods. This book presents an in-depth and all-encompassing study on the floods that occurred in the Jeddah area in 2009 and 2011, including water-flow mechanisms, state-of-the-art techniques for flood assessment, flood control and appropriate management approaches. It highlights a number of methods ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Aeolian Processes as Dust Storms in the Deserts of Central Asia and Kazakhstan

    de Gulnura Issanova, Jilili Abuduwaili ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book highlights the aeolian processes in the desert zone of Kazakhstan and Central Asian Deserts, and analyzes the current status of dust and sand storms in Central Asia and Kazakhstan.It also highlights the analyses, dynamics and long-term observations of storms on the basis of numerous cartographic materials and satellite images.Dust/sand storms are a common and important phenomenon in the ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Landslide Dynamics: ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools

    Volume 2: Testing, Risk Management and Country Practices

    Edición de Kyoji Sassa, Binod Tiwari, Ko-Fei Liu, Mauri McSaveney, Alexander Strom, Hendy Setiawan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This interactive book presents comprehensive information on the fundamentals of landslide types and dynamics, while also providing a set of PPT, PDF, and text tools for education and capacity development. It is the second part of a two-volume work created as the core activity of the Sendai Partnerships, the International Consortium of Landslides. The book will be regularly updated and improved ... Leer más

    $170.09 USD

  • Tree Rings and Natural Hazards

    A State-of-Art

    Edición de Markus Stoffel, Michelle Bollschweiler, David R. Butler, Brian H. Luckman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant. I was working as a young geoscientist in the 1960s and early 1970s on a problem with slope movements and deformed vegetation. At the same time, unknown to me, Jouko Alestalo in Finland was doing something similar. Both of us had seen ... Leer más

    $188.09 USD

  • Shallow Geophysical Mass Flows down Arbitrary Topography

    Model Equations in Topography-fitted Coordinates, Numerical Simulation and Back-calculations of Disastrous Events

    de Yih-Chin Tai, Chih-Yu Kuo, Ioana Luca ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Geophysical mass flows, such as landslides, avalanches or debris flows, are frequent mass movement processes in mountain areas and often cause disastrous damage. This book lays a foundation for formulating the depth-averaged equations describing the shallow geophysical mass flows over non-trivial topography. It consists of the detailed derivation of the model equations. The stimulating numerical ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

    de Elsevier Science ...
    Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in glacier surges and melting, ice shelf collapses, paleo-climate reconstruction, sea level rise, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness, and mitigation. It takes a geo-scientific approach to the topic while also covering current thinking about directly related social ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD