Final Report from the NRC Committee on the Review of the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration (LACPR) Program
ISBN: 9780309141031 / Angielski / Miękka / 65 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration (LACPR) draft final technical report in March, 2009. In response to federal legislation, the Corps had to analyze hurricane protection, and design and present a full range of measures to protect against a storm equivalent to a category 5 hurricane. The request included measures for flood control, coastal restoration, and hurricane protection, and stipulated close coordination with the State of Louisiana and its appropriate agencies. This is the second and final report from the National Research...The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration (LACPR) draft final technical report in March, 2009. In ... |
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126,70 zł |
Natural and Anthropogenic Disasters: Vulnerability, Preparedness and Mitigation
ISBN: 9789048124978 / Angielski / Twarda / 615 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The major challenges of the 21st century faced by human beings are how to achieve water security, food security, energy security and environmental security. Owing to enhanced natural/anthropogenic disasters worldwide, these challenges become much more complicated and daunting especially for developing countries. Therefore, it is important to highlight the risk of different disasters as well as the modern tools and techniques for minimizing disaster incidence and losses. Disaster management being highly multidisciplinary in nature, a comprehensive book dealing... The major challenges of the 21st century faced by human beings are how to achieve water security, food security, energy security and env... |
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767,51 zł |
Drought Assessment
ISBN: 9789048124992 / Angielski / Twarda / 429 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information-based decision-making during drought, often brings out some of the excellent practices that are prevalent in society / individuals. This book is designed to provide information on the drought process, meteorological, hydrological, agriculture, socio-economic aspects and available technologies such as satellite remote sensing data analysis and Geographical Information system for assessment. Assessment procedures utilising the various parameters of importance from various sources for micro level management that would enhance the effectiveness of management practice are dealt in... Information-based decision-making during drought, often brings out some of the excellent practices that are prevalent in society / individuals. Thi... |
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575,62 zł |
GIS, Human Geography, and Disasters
ISBN: 9781934269862 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. GIS, Human Geography, and Disasters is about people and places impacted by disasters. As geographers we emphasize the spatial, using maps to more fully understand the social processes at work. Topics covered include, "Social" GIS and disasters, spatial comparisons between disasters, spatial patterns in social and health vulnerability, post-disaster health, and neighborhood scale recovery. The book draws heavily from our ongoing experiences with Hurricane Katrina. However, we have written this book in such a way that instructors need not have personal experience with these events; nor...
GIS, Human Geography, and Disasters is about people and places impacted by disasters. As geographers we emphasize the spatial, using maps to mo...
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552,74 zł |
Natural Disasters: Floods: A Reference Handbook
ISBN: 9781576070581 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What causes killer floods? Why are they so destructive? Can they be predicted, tamed, or eliminated? Find the answers in "Natural Disasters: Floods," which discusses where and how often floods occur in the United States, how the federal government handles flood control, and the extent of the economic and social damage caused by floods.
What causes killer floods? Why are they so destructive? Can they be predicted, tamed, or eliminated? Find the answers in "Natural Disasters: Floods... |
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384,68 zł |
Tsunamis: Causes, Characteristics, Warnings & Protection
ISBN: 9781608763603 / Angielski / Twarda / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A tsunami is a series of water waves that is caused when a large volume of a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. This book presents field survey results on tsunami arrival times, wave run-up heights, inundation distances and damage to properties on beaches due to tsunamis.
A tsunami is a series of water waves that is caused when a large volume of a body of water, such as an ocean, is rapidly displaced. This book presents...
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Tree Rings and Natural Hazards: A State-Of-The-Art
ISBN: 9789048187355 / Angielski / Twarda / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The initial employment of tree rings in natural hazard studies was simply as a dating tool and rarely exploited other environmental information and records of damage contained within the tree. However, these unique, annually resolved, tree-ring records preserve valuable archives of past earth-surface processes on timescales of decades to centuries. As many of these processes are significant natural hazards, understanding their distribution, timing and controls provides valuable information that can assist in the prediction, mitigation and defence against these hazards and their effects on...
The initial employment of tree rings in natural hazard studies was simply as a dating tool and rarely exploited other environmental information and re...
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767,51 zł |
Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection: Collaborative and Distributed Frameworks
ISBN: 9781615209873 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This book offers state-of-the-art information and references for work undertaken in the challenging area of utilizing cutting-edge distributed and collaborative ICT to advance disaster management as a discipline to cope with current and future unforeseen threats"--Provided by publisher.
"This book offers state-of-the-art information and references for work undertaken in the challenging area of utilizing cutting-edge distributed and co...
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995,42 zł |
Post-Disaster Reconstruction: Lessons from Aceh
ISBN: 9781844078790 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores the high-profile topic of South Asian tsunami reconstruction. The book examines in-depth the context and varied perspectives on the efforts in Aceh from local, national and international levels.
This text explores the high-profile topic of South Asian tsunami reconstruction. The book examines in-depth the context and varied perspectives on the...
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652,27 zł |
Natural Disasters
ISBN: 9780816082605 / Angielski / Twarda / 431 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Natural Disasters examines the types of natural hazards, their costs in human lives and economic impact, and national and international responses to them. Detailed case studies examine disasters in the United States, the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and tsunami of 2004-2005, water resource management in China, the 1984-1985 famine in Ethiopia, and the eruption of Nevado del Ruiz in Colombia in 1985. The case studies also investigate strategies that governments and private agencies have adopted to predict, manage, and survive natural disasters. Primary source materials and useful research tools...
Natural Disasters examines the types of natural hazards, their costs in human lives and economic impact, and national and international responses to t...
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237,41 zł |
Human Casualties in Earthquakes: Progress in Modelling and Mitigation
ISBN: 9789048194544 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book dealing specifically with human casualties in natural disasters. It draws on the new evidence to summarize current trends in the understanding of the factors influencing the numbers and types of human casualties in disasters. This is the first book dealing specifically with human casualties in natural disasters. It draws on the new evidence to summarize current trends in... |
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383,73 zł |
Typhoon Impact and Crisis Management
ISBN: 9783642406942 / Angielski / Twarda / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Major natural hazards have sparked growing public concern worldwide. This book provides new information on Typhoon Impact and Crisis Management using satellite remote sensing technology, linking the natural sciences and social sciences in typhoon studies. It examines remote sensing observations of typhoons (hurricanes), typhoon impacts on the environment, typhoon impacts on marine ecosystems, typhoon impacts and global changes, typhoon (hurricane) impacts on economics, and crisis management for typhoon (hurricane) disasters.
Major natural hazards have sparked growing public concern worldwide. This book provides new information on Typhoon Impact and Crisis Management using ...
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575,62 zł |
Hurricane Katrina - - Why?
ISBN: 9781450063982 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hurricane Katrina Why? Comes from having first - hand experience of the onslaught of several hurricanes, while living in the South Florida area. The anxieties and emotions are very real as families make extensive preparations before the hurricane, only to be followed by complete chaos and the disruption of everyday living. As one of many Americans the images of complete horror and devastation that the people of New Orleans suffered after Hurricane Katrina are not easily forgotten. People were taken unawares, thousands were displaced, suffered the death of loved ones, and lost everything they...
Hurricane Katrina Why? Comes from having first - hand experience of the onslaught of several hurricanes, while living in the South Florida area. The a...
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Mega Earthquake & tsunami on the Pacific coasts: Chilean experiences for Pacific Rim residents
ISBN: 9781451596038 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The mega-earthquake occurred on February 27 of March 2010, along the coast of the central Chile in South America, produced an early and shacked weak up to millions of people. The 8.8 Richter scale event hit the central zone at 03:34 A.M. while people were sleeping. Then, as if the damage weren't enough and still at dark, it was followed by a not only devastating but also lethal tsunami that was strong enough to travel across the Pacific Ocean, hitting Asia only fourteen hours after. This earthquake is the fifth more intense ever measured and it was so strong that Scientific American published...
The mega-earthquake occurred on February 27 of March 2010, along the coast of the central Chile in South America, produced an early and shacked weak u...
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65,45 zł |
Titanic and Other Ships
ISBN: 9781849027335 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,30 zł |
Tsunami Events and Lessons Learned: Environmental and Societal Significance
ISBN: 9789400772687 / Angielski / Twarda / 467 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a collective effort by world experts, bringing together assorted contributions presented during the Ocean Science Session OS-017, of the AOGS-AGU Joint Assembly held in Singapore in 2012 (the Asia Tsunami and Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami events). The chapters cover assessment, evaluation, forecast and lessons learned as well as environmental and societal impacts of the latest tsunamis that occurred in the Indian Ocean in 2004 and the Pacific Ocean in Japan 2011.
This book is a collective effort by world experts, bringing together assorted contributions presented during the Ocean Science Session OS-017, of t... |
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383,73 zł |
Inside Risk: A Strategy for Sustainable Risk Mitigation
ISBN: 9788847018419 / Angielski / Miękka / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book comprises the main results of the Scenario (Support on Common European Strategy for sustainable natural and induced technological hazards mitigation) project, funded as a Specific Support Action under the VI FP. This book addresses three main needs: first, it constitutes an assessment of the situation of Europe as far as natural na-tech risks are considered; second, it suggests future research themes to be opened of widened so as to tackle new and emerging threats as well as changes in the potential response to risk governance, in order to improve the way scientific and technical...
This book comprises the main results of the Scenario (Support on Common European Strategy for sustainable natural and induced technological hazards mi...
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191,85 zł |
Managing Adaptation to Climate Risk: Beyond Fragmented Responses
ISBN: 9780415600934 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Climate change is the single largest threat to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and sustainable development. Addressing climate risk is a challenge for all. This book calls for greater collaboration between climate communities and disaster development communities. In discussing this, the book will evaluate the approaches used by each community to reduce the adverse effects of climate change. One area that offers some promise for bringing together these communities is through the concept of resilience. This term is increasingly used in each community to describe a... Climate change is the single largest threat to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and sustainable development. Addressing cl... |
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677,36 zł |
Tsunami Warning and Preparedness: An Assessment of the U.S. Tsunami Program and the Nation's Preparedness Efforts
ISBN: 9780309137539 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many coastal areas of the United States are at risk for tsunamis. After the catastrophic 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, legislation was passed to expand U.S. tsunami warning capabilities. Since then, the nation has made progress in several related areas on both the federal and state levels. At the federal level, NOAA has improved the ability to detect and forecast tsunamis by expanding the sensor network. Other federal and state activities to increase tsunami safety include: improvements to tsunami hazard and evacuation maps for many coastal communities; vulnerability assessments of... Many coastal areas of the United States are at risk for tsunamis. After the catastrophic 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, legislation was passed t... |
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279,92 zł |
Fossil Earthquakes: The Formation and Preservation of Pseudotachylytes
ISBN: 9783642093555 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the earthquake source materials produced or deformed by both seismic faulting and aseismic creep within seismogenic fault zones at different levels of the crust. In particular, the mechanisms and processes involved in the formation of earthquake materials are covered. The book is intended to help bridge the gap between seismology and geology and to encourage further studies of earthquake mechanisms and seismic faulting processes. This book focuses on the earthquake source materials produced or deformed by both seismic faulting and aseismic creep within seismogenic fault zone... |
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575,62 zł |