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Extreme Events in Nature and Society
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 84.99Presents unifying and distinguishing features of extreme events, including problems of understanding and modelling their origin, spatial and temporal extension, and potential impact. This book aims to help in the difficult problem of anticipation: forecasting the event and proposing measures to moderate or prevent it. more...
Mitigation of Natural Hazards and Disasters
Springer 2006; US$ 109.99Examines the aspects of prevention, mitigation, and management of environmental hazards and disasters from an international perspective. In light of the debate on climate change and the effects of such a change upon increasing frequency and magnitude of extreme environmental events, this work overviews various policy and response discourses. more...
Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
United Nations University Press 2006; US$ 39.00A seemingly non-stop series of disasters has shown that societies worldwide seem unprepared for the threats posed by natural hazards: Hurricane Katrina, drought in Africa; flooding in China and Germany; earthquakes in Pakistan and India; a tsunami in South-East Asia; and forest fires in Portugal, Australia and North America. The tragic impacts... more...
Inventing the Earth
Wiley 2008; US$ 149.95This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the past 250 years. Chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent different views of the Earth over the last 250 years. Uses... more...
The Periglacial Environment
Wiley 2007; US$ 199.95The Periglacial Environment, Third Edition , provides an authoritative overview of the world???s cold, non-glacial environments. Emphasis is placed upon the North American and Eurasian polar lowlands, but examples are also drawn from Antarctica, the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, and the northern mid-latitudes. First published in 1976 and subsequently... more...
The Geomorphology of the Great Barrier Reef
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 64.00Reference on geomorphological studies on reefs for researchers and graduate students in geomorphology and oceanography. more...
Asian And Pacific Coasts 2003, Proceedings Of The 2nd International Conference
World Scientific Publishing Company 2004; US$ 114.00This book presents the experience of coastal and port engineering development, as well as coastal environmental problems, in Asian and Pacific countries. It also provides information and promotes technological progress and activities, international technical transfer and cooperation, and opportunities for engineers and researchers to maintain and improve... more...
Encyclopedia of Coastal Science
Springer 2005; US$ 499.00Maurice Schwartz, Editor of the much acclaimed Encyclopedia of Beaches and Coastal Environments (Hutchinson Ross, 1982) has now brought forth a new volume with a fresh interdisciplinary approach that includes geomorphology, ecology, engineering, technology, oceanography, and human activities as they relate to coasts. Within its covers the Encyclopedia... more...
Desertification in the Mediterranean Region. A Security Issue
Springer 2006; US$ 119.99Focuses on two basic concepts: security and desertification in the Mediterranean Region and their linkages. This book provides a multi-lateral forum for cooperation, information exchange, and dialogue among the environmental, development, foreign and security policy communities within the Mediterranean Region. more...
Natural Disasters as Interactive Components of Global Ecodynamics
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2006; US$ 229.99Large-scale natural catastrophes are environmental phenomena. This book analyses the problem of natural disaster prediction and the implementation of environmental monitoring systems to receive, store and process the information necessary for solutions of specific problems in this area. more...









