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  • Techniques for Disaster Risk Management and Mitigation

    Edited by Prashant K. Srivastava, Sudhir Kumar Singh, U. C. Mohanty, Tad Murty ...
    A comprehensive guide to managing and mitigating natural disastersRecent years have seen a surge in the number, frequency, and severity of natural disasters, with further increases expected as the climate continues to change. However, advanced computational and geospatial technologies have enabled the development of sophisticated early warning systems and techniques to predict, manage, and ... Read more

    $231.99 CAD

  • The Indian Ocean Tsunami

    Edited by Tad S. Murty, U. Aswathanarayana, Niru Nirupama ...
    The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 is considered to have been one of the worst natural disasters in history, affecting twelve countries, from Indonesia to Somalia. 175,000 people are believed to have lost their lives, almost 50,000 were registered as missing and 1.7 million people were displaced. As well as this horrendous toll on human life ... Read more

    $219.86 CAD

  • Natural Hazards

    State-of-the-Art at the End of the Second Millennium

    Edited by Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos, Tad S. Murty, Srinivasan Venkatesh, R. Blong ...
    This special volume contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Seventh International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-98), held in Chania, Crete Island, Greece, during May 1998. The Symposium attracted broad international interest because many cases of natural disaster events, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, storm surges, forest fires, etc., that occurred in ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Natural and Man-Made Hazards

    Proceedings of the International Symposium held at Rimouski, Quebec, Canada, 3–9 August, 1986

    Edited by Mohammed I. El-Sabh, Tad S. Murty ...
    In recent years, several major natural and man-made hazards have challenged scientists, government officials and the public in general: earthquakes, major volcanic and other seismic eruptions in Mount St. Helens, EI Chichon, Mexico city, Nevado del Ruiz, Japan, Italy, Greece, Cameroon and many other places on our globe; Tsunami in the Pacific Ocean and deadly storm surges along the coasts of India ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Recent Studies in Geophysical Hazards

    Edited by Mohammed I. El-Sabh, Tad S. Murty, Srinivasan Venkatesh, F. Siccardi, K. Andah ...
    Series Book 3 - Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
    Over the past 20 years the costs of natural disasters have escalated significantly. The lives of over 800 million people have been disrupted and the number of catastrophes has nearly quadrupled. At present, the increasing global threat of natural disasters, in spite of our increased knowledge, is ominous. With the growth in world population, the increasing of resources in newly developing areas, ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Land-Based and Marine Hazards

    Scientific and Management Issues

    Edited by H. Denis, Srinivasan Venkatesh, Mohammed I. El-Sabh, Tad S. Murty ...
    Series Book 7 - Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
    Causes of major disasters are many and diverse, and the risks associated with them endanger human lives, property, the environment, the economy, and even the country's political and social well-being. It is clear that, with rapid population growth, environmental degradation, climate change, poorly regulated industries, and continued economic uncertainty, the chances are that communities may become ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Earthquake and Atmospheric Hazards

    Preparedness Studies

    Edited by Srinivasan Venkatesh, Cinna Lomnitz, Mohammed I. El-Sabh, Tad S. Murty ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Sixth International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-96) held in Toronto, Canada during July, 1996. The Symposium was very timely, given the large number of natural disasters that have occurred in various parts of the world during the 1990s, the United Nations' International ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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    by H. P. Patra, Shyamal Kumar Adhikari, Subrata Kunar ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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  • Tsunami Research at the End of a Critical Decade

    Edited by Gerald T. Hebenstreit ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume, derived from the 1999 International Tsunami Symposium, presents a unique look at the state of tsunami research at the end of the 20th century. It displays recent progress both in data recovery and reconstructions of historical tsunamis and in detail examination of recent disasters. It shows the tsunami community using both traditional methods of data gathering - searching archives and ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Flood Risk in the Upper Vistula Basin

    Edited by Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Tadeusz Niedźwiedź, Bartłomiej Wyżga, Markus Stoffel ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This pioneering book addresses the entirety of river flooding issues in the Upper Vistula Basin, where considerable flood generation potential exists. It analyses the factors influencing flood risk, investigates variations in observation records and discusses projections for the future and adaptation to changing risk. It serves the general interest in understanding the floods that cause massive ... Read more

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  • Applied Geostatistics with SGeMS

    A User's Guide

    by Nicolas Remy, Jianbing Wu, Alexandre Boucher ...
    The Stanford Geostatistical Modeling Software (SGeMS) is an open-source computer package for solving problems involving spatially related variables. It provides geostatistics practitioners with a user-friendly interface, an interactive 3-D visualization, and a wide selection of algorithms. This practical book provides a step-by-step guide to using SGeMS algorithms. It explains the underlying ... Read more

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  • Geographical Information Systems in Assessing Natural Hazards

    Edited by Alberto Carrara, Fausto Guzzetti ...
    Series Book 5 - Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
    The 16 contributions to Geographical Information Systems in Assessing Natural Hazards report on GIS investigations into landslides, floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and groundwater pollution hazards. Current methods for predicting extreme events are critically discussed, the emphasis being on the intrinsic complexity of this type of operation, requiring many spatial data, long historical ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD