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  • Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction
    Rajib Shaw
    Deals with the topic of Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR). This book provides an overview of the subject and looks at the role of governments, NGOs, academics and corporate sectors in community based disaster risk reduction. It examines experiences from Asian and African countries. ...
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    305,17 €

  • Environment Disaster Linkages
    This is one of the first books to focus on explicit linkages between the changing environment and disasters and suggests proactive approaches towards disaster management. A ready-reference for field practitioners it covers areas such as elements of environmental entry, impacts of environment and disaster, strategies, planning and the way forward. ...
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    284,65 €

  • And America Quaked
    Kenneth W. Edwards / Kenneth WEdwards
    Since the beginning of the new millennium, terrible earthquakes have hit different parts of the globe. These quakes have taken hundreds of thousands of lives and caused great destruction of property. Up to this point, the United States has only been a spectator to these awesome events. At some point -- and no one knows when -- it will be our turn, and the picture will not be pr...
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    19,36 €

  • Survival
    Barbara Fix
    If there was an unexpected emergency, do you have a 72-hour emergency kit stored in your car that will get you home safely? And when you arrive will there be enough food, water and medical supplies to see you and your loved ones past a short-term or long-term crisis? If the answer is no, Survival: Prepare Before Disaster Strikes offers common sense, drama-free advice on food st...
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    22,61 €

  • Catastrophic Gumbo
    Alvin Jacques
    From avalanches to volcanoes, and from the Gulf Oil Spill to bridge collapses, author Alvin JacQues explores the fascinating world of disasters-both manmade and natural.Inspired by his survival of Hurricane Katrina, chronicled in his first book Catastrophic Gumbo, JacQues delivers a compilation of facts and commentary on a number of global natural and manmade disasters, both hi...
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    19,26 €

  • Catastrophic Gumbo
    Alvin Jacques
    From avalanches to volcanoes, and from the Gulf Oil Spill to bridge collapses, author Alvin JacQues explores the fascinating world of disasters-both manmade and natural.Inspired by his survival of Hurricane Katrina, chronicled in his first book Catastrophic Gumbo, JacQues delivers a compilation of facts and commentary on a number of global natural and manmade disasters, both hi...
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    12,07 €

  • Catastrophic Gumbo
    Alvin Jacques
    There’s no doubt that Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating weather events to hit the United States-costing lives, property, and prosperity. In Catastrophic Gumbo, author Alvin JacQues provides a firsthand look at the facts, drama, details, and aftermath of this powerful storm.A survivor of Hurricane Katrina, JacQues considers himself lucky to be alive, and he credi...
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    11,85 €

  • Catastrophic Gumbo
    Alvin Jacques
    There’s no doubt that Hurricane Katrina was one of the most devastating weather events to hit the United States-costing lives, property, and prosperity. In Catastrophic Gumbo, author Alvin JacQues provides a firsthand look at the facts, drama, details, and aftermath of this powerful storm.A survivor of Hurricane Katrina, JacQues considers himself lucky to be alive, and he credi...
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    19,07 €

  • DISASTER
    Dr. Michael Sprague
    FOR MEN AND WOMEN CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH HELL ON EARTH.Has a hurricane-sized disaster ripped through your life?Do you ever feel stale in your soul and lack adventure in life?Have circumstances sucker-punched you and fear bogged you down?Not anymore!LEARN TO LIVE TO THE HILT A GOD-SIZED ADVENTURE IN YOUR STORM.Disaster: Betting the Farm on God in Life’s Storms will build your t...
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    13,29 €

  • DISASTER
    Dr. Michael Sprague
    FOR MEN AND WOMEN CURRENTLY GOING THROUGH HELL ON EARTH.Has a hurricane-sized disaster ripped through your life?Do you ever feel stale in your soul and lack adventure in life?Have circumstances sucker-punched you and fear bogged you down?Not anymore!LEARN TO LIVE TO THE HILT A GOD-SIZED ADVENTURE IN YOUR STORM.Disaster: Betting the Farm on God in Life’s Storms will build your t...
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    20,39 €

  • Disaster Education
    Offers an informative introduction to the subject of disaster risk reduction education and highlights key places of education such as family, community, school, and higher education. This book describes and demonstrates different aspects of education in an easy-to-understand form with academic research and practical field experiences. ...
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    220,55 €

  • Calculating Catastrophe
    Gordon Woo
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    79,48 €

  • Calculating Catastrophe
    Gordon Woo
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    159,28 €

  • Japan Quake
    Simon Saint
    The natural workings of the Earth often lead to immense human suffering. Is this suffering inevitable? In this book Simon Saint makes the case that it isn’t. He considers two events which are typically thought of as ’natural disasters’ - the 2008 Boxing Day Tsunami and the current events in Japan (March 2011) - and explains why these events, whilst having natural causes, are ac...
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    8,87 €

  • The Fellowship of Fire
    Dan Pence
    WILDFIRE! THE SIMPLE WORD BRINGS IMMAGES OF DISASTER. Author Dan Pence walked the fire line as a wild land firefighter for 44 years. 'The Fellowship of Fire' documents experiences in fighting wildfires across the United States, and the fellowship that develops among the adrenalin junkies who choose to live on the edge, the life of a wild land firefighter. Dan began fighting ...
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    18,42 €

  • Disaster Response in India
    Foreign Military Studies Office / Prakash Singh / U.S. Department of the Army
    First published in 2000. Abstract: 'India is prone to natural and man-made disasters. The number has been increasing every year because of the mixture of various factors such as adverse weather, population growth, urbanization, and industrialization. How the Republic of India organizes for managing significant natural and man-made disasters, its capacity for effective response,...
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    27,28 €

  • HOW to LIVE on WHEAT
    John W Hill
    This revised and expanded Third (2011) edition provides more information on other grains and legumes and addresses questions, suggestions and critique from readers of the previous edition. This is a cookbook, preparedness resource and survival manual all wrapped into one concise and thorough reference. It covers the storage of wheat and other grains and legumes, the preparat...
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    12,91 €

  • Extreme Events
    Jonathon Nott
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    50,82 €

  • Surviving the Terror IKE
    Carole Hamadey
    'Far from stress, close to the sea', may be found on every piece of literature at Out By The Sea Bed & Breakfast. On September 12, 2008, Hurricane Ike brought the sea into Out By The Sea. Unable to evacuate, Carole & her friend Dyan would be exposed to the most terrifying and life changing experience of their lives. Carole & Dyan prepared and braced themselves for the worst, ...
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    18,80 €

  • Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Detection
    Disaster management is a dynamic and fluid area, which requires the involvement of expertise from different authorities and organizations. There is a need to prepare and plan in advance actions in response to disaster related events in order to support sustainable livelihood by protecting lives, property and the environment. Advanced ICTs for Disaster Management and Threat Dete...
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    236,39 €

  • Titanic and Other Ships
    Charles Herbert Lightoller
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    15,89 €

  • Katrina
    Lyn Lifshin
    August 2010, the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, is much in the news media after all these years. 'Still what we have mostly missed in all the reporting is the intimacy of a poet's voice who can bring the real right up inside us. Lyn Lifshin's volume of straight forward, exact poetry in KATRINA does this. There is a clear ungarnished force to her words that gives us t...
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    11,45 €

  • Hurricane Katrina - - Why?
    Olive Fuller
    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 horro...
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    12,60 €

  • A Wall of White
    Jennifer Woodlief
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    21,05 €

  • Forest Fires - Their Destructive Work , Causes And Prevention
    William Willard Ashe
    Contained within this book is late nineteenth-century survey information from North Carolina relating to forest fires, exploring their causes, effect, and prevention. Contents include: “Forest Fires”, “Losses from Forest Fires in 1880”, “Kinds of Forest Fires”, “Ultimate Results of Forest Fires”, “Destruction of Pine Timber by Forest Fires”, “Increase in the Area of Waste Long-...
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    32,40 €

  • Fire on the Mountain
    John N MacLean / John N. Maclean / John NMaclean
    In 1994, a wildfire on Colorado’s Storm King Mountain was wrongly identified at the outset as occurring in South Canyon. This unintentional, seemingly minor human error was merely the first in a string of mistakes that would be compounded into one of the greatest tragedies in the annals of firefighting. Before it was done, fourteen courageous firefighters--men and women, hotsho...
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    12,64 €

  • Tsunami
    Fumihiko Imamura / Kazumasa Katoh / Susumu Murata
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    58,78 €

  • Tsunami
    Fumihiko Imamura / Kazumasa Katoh / Susumu Murata
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    38,00 €

  • GIS, Human Geography, and Disasters
    Andrew Curtis / Jacqueline W. Mills / Jacqueline WMills
    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 scal...
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    74,39 €

  • Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape
    DeMond Shondell Miller / Jason David Rivera
    Hurricane Katrina and the Redefinition of Landscape discusses the ways in which Hurricane Katrina and other such disasters that follow in the wake of large-scale natural phenomena have the ability to alter the physical and social landscapes of an area. Miller and Rivera emphasize the importance of the physical landscape and explore the ways in which any alteration to the landsc...
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    64,22 €


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