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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Natural disasters"
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Environmental hazards and disasters: contexts, perspectives and management
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Paul, Bimal Kanti.

Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management focuses on manifested threats to humans and their welfare as a result of natural disasters. The book uses an integrative approach to address socio-cultural, political and physical components of the disaster process. Human and social vulnerability as well as risk to environmental hazards are explored within the comprehens…

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ISBN/ISSN
9780470660010
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xi, 322 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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[TLK-LIB-141]
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Earth system processes and disaster management
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Sinha, Rajiv.Ravindra, Rasik.

One of the fundamental goals of earth system science research is to adopt a more holistic view of the earth as a ‘system’ comprising different domains. The Society of Earth Scientists has brought out this multidisciplinary publication to emphasize the need of an integrated approach to understand the Earth system. It focuses on natural disasters and, in particular, on climate change and it…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783642288449
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xii, 244 pages : illustrations (some color), maps
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Society of Earth Scientists series
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[TLK-LIB-139]
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Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and adaptation in practice
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Fabrice G RenaudKaren Sudmeier-RieuxMarisol EstrellaUdo Nehren

This book is a compilation of recent developments in the field of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaption (Eco-DRR/CCA) globally. It provides further evidence that ecosystem-based approaches make economic sense, and showcases how research has progressively filled knowledge gaps about translating this concept into practice. It presents a number of methods, and tools t…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783319436333
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1 online resource.
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Advances in natural and technological hazards research, v. 42.
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[TLK-LIB-135]
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Planning for disaster: how natural and man-made disasters shape the built env…
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Ramroth, William G.

by William G. Ramroth, Jr.

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ISBN/ISSN
9781419593734
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ix, 294 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
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[TLK-LIB-61]