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?This book elucidates sedimentation processes at work in the Rupnarayan River, with particular focus on the environment of sediment deposition under a tidal system. It addresses the various complexities arising from the interactions between riverine and marine...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-11-17
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SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
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Creating Katrina, Rebuilding Resilience: Lessons from New Orleans on Vulnerability and Resiliency presents a unique, integrative understanding of Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans area, and the progression to disaster vulnerability as well as resilience pathways. The...
Editeur : Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution : 2017-11-13
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This book explains the causes, mechanisms and dimension of sedimentation in theRupnarayan River, which offers a representative example of a tidal river combining fluvial and marine processes. The book is unique in addressing all the hydrodynamic characteristics of the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-11-01
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences
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The Fukushima and Tohoku Disaster: A Review of the Five-Year Reconstruction Efforts covers the outcome of the response, five years later, to the disasters associated with the Great East Japan earthquake on March 11, 2011.The 3.11 disaster, as it is referred to in Japan,...
Editeur : Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution : 2017-10-26
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What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most...
Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2017-10-24
Format(s) : ePub
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Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia: Potentials and Challenges provides both a local and global perspective on how to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Topics demonstrate the advancement of scientific research as it...
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 2017-10-13
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Urban Emergency Management: Planning and Response for the 21st Century takes the concepts and practices of emergency management and places them in the context of the complex challenges faced by the contemporary city. Cities provide unique challenges to emergency...
Editeur : Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution : 2017-09-25
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This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century: why deaths continue to occur in natural disasters despite the tremendous advancements in disaster management science and weather forecasting systems, increased sophistication of human-built...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-09-04
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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This book scrutinizes the entire disaster trajectory history in the Republic of Korea: evolution, cross-over, and interconnection among natural, technological, and social disasters. Also examined is the government’s dynamic reaction for effective disaster responses in...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-07-10
Collection :
Disaster Risk Reduction
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This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-06-10
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This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-05-20
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This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-05-17
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This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-05-16
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-05-16
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This study develops a methodology for rapidly obtaining approximate estimates of the economic consequences from numerous natural, man-made and technological threats.This software tool is intended for use by various decision makers and analysts to obtain estimates...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-04-13
Collection :
Integrated Disaster Risk Management
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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 realistic...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2017-01-18
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Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters, and perceive the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-11-25
Collection :
Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance
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This book is the first comprehensive overview and evaluation of the origins, history and current size and condition of all of Iceland's major glaciers (including Vatnajökull, the largest in Europe) at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is not only illustrated...
Editeur : Atlantis Press
Parution : 2016-10-04
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Coastal Hazards in Bangladesh: Non-Structural and Structural Solutions provides a review of the study of Bangladesh's coastal region, an area whose location and physical geography present the prefect microcosm for the study of coastal hazards and for the development of...
Editeur : Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution : 2016-09-28
Format(s) : PDF, epub sans DRM
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