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  • Environmental Hazards

    Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

    by Keith Smith, Carina J. Fearnley, Deborah Dixon, Deanne K. Bird, Ilan Kelman ...
    The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century globally. It integrates cutting-edge materials to provide an interdisciplinary approach to environmental hazards and their management, illustrating how natural and human systems interact to place ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Observing the Volcano World

    Volcano Crisis Communication

    Edited by Carina J. Fearnley, Deanne K. Bird, Katharine Haynes, William J. McGuire, Gill Jolly ...
    Series series Advances in Volcanology
    This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully applying volcanology in practice and to identify areas that need to be addressed for future progress. It shows how volcano crises are managed in practice, and helps to establish best practices. Consequently the book brings together authors from all over the globe ... Read more

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  • The Demography of Disasters

    Impacts for Population and Place

    Edited by Dávid Karácsonyi, Andrew Taylor, Deanne Bird ...
    This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for and mitigating impacts from disasters in developed nations.Both slow onset (like the of loss polar ice from climate change) and ... Read more

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  • Natural Disasters and Risk Management in Canada

    An Introduction

    by Nirupama Agrawal ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    These chapters provide valuable and comprehensive information on a variety of hazards, including both scientific and social aspects of disasters. The work introduces the concept of large, medium and small scale hazards, and includes many useful case studies as well as working examples of theoretical concepts.As readers will acknowledge, today the distinction between natural and technological ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

    Edited by Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, JC Gaillard ...
    The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools.Organized into five ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Applied Geography

    Principles and Practice

    Edited by Michael Pacione ...
    Applied Geography offers an invaluable introduction to useful research in physical, environmental and human geography and provides a new focus and reference point for investigating and understanding problem-orientated research. Forty-nine leading experts in the field introduce and explore research which crosses the traditional boundary between physical and human geography. A wide range of key ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • World Fisheries

    A Social-Ecological Analysis

    by Rosemary Ommer, Ian Perry, Kevern L. Cochrane, Philippe Cury ...
    This exciting new book grew out of an international symposium held at FAO, Rome in July 2008, but it is not just a collection of papers from that symposium. Rather, the publication brings together work on social-ecological marine research that cuts across disciplines, identifies key common elements and approaches that promote resilience of marine social-ecological systems in the face of global ... Read more

    $207.00 USD

  • Mismanagement of Marine Fisheries

    by Alan Longhurst ...
    Longhurst examines the proposition, central to fisheries science, that a fishery creates its own natural resource by the compensatory growth it induces in the fish, and that this is sustainable. His novel analysis of the reproductive ecology of bony fish of cooler seas offers some support for this, but a review of fisheries past and present confirms that sustainability is rarely achieved. The ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • A Region at Risk

    The Human Dimensions of Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Asia and the Pacific continues to be exposed to climate change impacts. Home to the majority of the world's poor, the population of the region is particularly vulnerable to those impacts. Unabated warming could largely diminish previous achievements of economic development and improvements, putting the future of the region at risk. Read the most recent projections pertaining to climate change and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems For Climate Change

    Edited by Ashbindu Singh, Zinta Zommers ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Around the world, extreme weather events are becoming increasingly "the new normal" and are expected to increase in the 21st century as a result of climate change. Extreme weather events have devastating impacts on human lives and national economies. This book examines ways to protect people from hazards using early warning systems, and includes contributions from experts from four different ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk in Coastal Cities

    Edited by Jeroen Aerts, Wouter Botzen, Malcolm Bowman, Philip Ward, Piet Dircke ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
    This book presents climate adaptation and flood risk problems and solutions in coastal cities � including an independent investigation of adaptation paths and problems in Rotterdam, New York and Jakarta. The comparison draws out lessons that each city can learn from the others.While the main focus is on coastal flooding, cities are also affected by climate change in other ways, including impacts ... Read more

    $200.99 USD

  • Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications

    Edited by Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi, Andrzej Kijko, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Ilya Zaliapin ...
    Series Book 1 - Special Publications of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics
    This book presents a unique, interdisciplinary approach to disaster risk research, combining cutting-edge natural science and social science methodologies. Bringing together leading scientists, policy makers and practitioners from around the world, it presents the risks of global hazards such as volcanoes, seismic events, landslides, hurricanes, precipitation floods and space weather, and provides ... Read more

    $107.99 USD