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Tornadoes, nature’s most violent and unpredictable storms, descend from the clouds nearly one thousand times yearly and ......more
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The Deadliest Twister in U.S. History The weather forecast for much of the Midwest on March 18, 1925, predicted "Wind an......more
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An award-winning text introducing the latest operational hydrometeorological forecasting and warning techniques for floo......more
This collection will be the first to address climate-related human mobility in the Nordic region. Academic discussion of......more
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This book explores the complexities of landslide susceptibility and critical rainfall conditions in Lower Austria throug......more
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Over 50 years have passed since the Black Hills flood swept through western South Dakota in 1972, leaving tragedy in its......more
This book explores the use of advanced geospatial techniques in geomorphic hazards modelling and risk reduction. It also......more
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Cape Cod has always been in the path of deadly hurricanes and ferocious storms. Unwelcome summer visitors include the "L......more
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A common sense field guide to understanding, surviving, and thriving in our time of complex chaos and crises. Is this fi......more
"The greatest natural disaster of all time" That’s how observers at the time viewed Agnes. When the storm arrived in Vir......more
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This book explores the relationship between tourism and high-magnitude storm events. It considers the measures available......more
This book explores the relationship between tourism and high-magnitude storm events. It considers the measures available......more
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Over the course of the stormy tapestry that is the human experience, the threads of resilience weave a story of unyieldi......more
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Explore the intricate relationship between the local ecosystem and the impact of global environmental shifts in "Climate......more
Case Studies in Disaster Response, the latest release in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptati......more
From earthquakes to oil spills, Italy is recurrently affected by different kinds of disasters. This book brings a critic......more
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This book provides the first comprehensive compilation of cutting-edge research on Merapi volcano on the island of Java,......more
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Ethel M. Chapman’s "God’s Green Country: A Novel of Canadian Rural Life" is a poignant depiction of rural Canadian life ......more
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Flood Nowcasting: From Data to Decisions provides a fully comprehensive overview on flood casting and why this new metho......more
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This book addresses geohazards by establishing their unique hydrogeological conceptual site models. Geohazards occur in ......more
This book contains the best papers accepted for presentation at the 3rd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Ge......more
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The 2011 Kii Peninsula disaster was postwar Japan’s largest sediment and flood disaster. This book analyzes the disaster......more
This book shows that the climate action and R2P agendas share a common goal: to protect vulnerable human populations fro......more
With over one hundred full-color photographs comes a harrowing portrait of Canada’s most devastating wildfire season eve......more
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Disaster research has been studied from many angles, seldom targeting its implications for vulnerable territories in Afr......more
This book is the result of an elaborate project initiated by the Joint Technical Committee (JTC-1) of 1) the Internation......more
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