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  • Advances in Hurricane Risk in a Changing Climate

    Edited by Jennifer Collins, James Done, Yi-Jie Zhu, Paul Wilson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Tropical cyclones (including hurricanes) are becoming more destructive. Rising seas are resulting in greater storm surge inundation. More moisture-laden, warmer air is leading to heavier rains. There is also mounting evidence for more powerful winds and a greater incidence of the strongest storms. Do we fully understand these changes, and what will these changes mean for society? Arising from the ... Read more

    $204.99 CAD

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  • Towards the “Perfect” Weather Warning

    Bridging Disciplinary Gaps through Partnership and Communication

    Edited by Brian Golding ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is about making weather warnings more effective in saving lives, property, infrastructure and livelihoods, but the underlying theme of the book is partnership. The book represents the warning process as a pathway linking observations to weather forecasts to hazard forecasts to socio-economic impact forecasts to warning messages to the protective decision, via a set of five bridges that ... Read more

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  • GIS – An Overview of Applications

    by Ana Cláudia Teodoro ...
    GIS – An Overview of Applications is a compilation of reviews that give an overview of the latest advances in Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. The multidisciplinary nature of the book gives readers perspectives in research fields as diverse as forest management, land use and cover, tourism, environment impact assessment, climate change studies, biodiversity and health care and ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • Natural Disasters and Risk Management in Canada

    An Introduction

    by Nirupama Agrawal ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    These chapters provide valuable and comprehensive information on a variety of hazards, including both scientific and social aspects of disasters. The work introduces the concept of large, medium and small scale hazards, and includes many useful case studies as well as working examples of theoretical concepts.As readers will acknowledge, today the distinction between natural and technological ... Read more

    $108.89 CAD

  • Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

    Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025

    Edited by Kyoji Sassa, Matjaž Mikoš, Yueping Yin ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    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 (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2, 2017. The ... Read more

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  • Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve

    From Local Thinking to Global Actions

    Edited by José Ernesto Mancera Pineda, Andrés F. Osorio, Cesar Toro, Carolina Sofía Velásquez-Calderón ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book addresses the following topics for the Seaflower Biosphere Reserve (BR) in the Colombian Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina, in the southwest Caribbean Sea, which is the world’s largest BR and contains representative ecosystems of tropical island regions.● Future regional climate behavior and forms of balanced relationships between humans and nature to ... Read more

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  • Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 3 Issue 1, 2024

    Edited by Biljana Abolmasov, Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Željko Arbanas, David Huntley, Kazuo Konagai, Snježana Mihalić Arbanas, Matjaž Mikoš, Maneesha V. Ramesh, Kyoji Sassa, Shinji Sassa, Huiming Tang, Binod Tiwari ...
    Series Book 1 - Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 ... Read more

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  • Sea-Level Change in the Pacific Islands Region

    A Review of Evidence to Inform Asian Development Bank Guidance on Selecting Sea-Level Projections for Climate Risk and Adaptation Assessments

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    This report reviews the evidence to establish which sources of sea-level rise projections are credible for the Pacific islands region. It examines the strengths, weaknesses, and uncertainties associated with various sources of information on sea-level rise in the Pacific. It aims to provide advisory standards for the planning, testing, and design of Asian Development Bank projects in the area. ... Read more

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  • Climate Adaptation Modelling

    Edited by Claus Kondrup, Paola Mercogliano, Francesco Bosello, Jaroslav Mysiak, Enrico Scoccimarro, Angela Rizzo, Rhian Ebrey, Marleen de Ruiter, Ad Jeuken, Paul Watkiss ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled by this literature: the still existing gap between adaptation science and modelling and the possibility to effectively access and exploit the information produced by policy making at different levels, international, national and local. To do so, the book presents the proceedings of a high-level expert workshop on adaptation ... Read more

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  • Integrating Disaster Science and Management

    Global Case Studies in Mitigation and Recovery

    Edited by Pijush Samui, Chandan Ghosh, Dookie Kim ...
    Integrated Disaster Science and Management: Global Case Studies in Mitigation and Recovery bridges the gap between scientific research on natural disasters and the practice of disaster management. It examines natural hazards, including earthquakes, landslides and tsunamis, and uses integrated disaster management techniques, quantitative methods and big data analytics to create early warning models ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 1 Issue 1, 2022

    Edited by Kyoji Sassa, Kazuo Konagai, Binod Tiwari, Željko Arbanas, Shinji Sassa ...
    Series Book 1 - Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 ... Read more

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  • Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 2 Issue 2, 2023

    Edited by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Željko Arbanas, David Huntley, Kazuo Konagai, Snježana Mihalić Arbanas, Matjaž Mikoš, Maneesha V. Ramesh, Kyoji Sassa, Shinji Sassa, Huiming Tang, Binod Tiwari ...
    Series Book 2 - Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 ... Read more

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