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  • Earthquake Time Bombs

    par Robert Yeats ...
    In a media interview in January 2010, scientist Robert Yeats sounded the alarm on Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as an 'earthquake time bomb', a region at critical risk of major seismic activity. One week later, a catastrophic earthquake struck the city, leaving over 100,000 dead and triggering a humanitarian crisis. In this timely study, Yeats sheds new light on other earthquake hotspots around the world ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Active Faults of the World

    par Robert Yeats ...
    Providing the first worldwide survey of active earthquake faults, this book focuses on those described as 'seismic time bombs' – with the potential to destroy large cities in the developing world such as Port au Prince, Kabul, Tehran and Caracas. Leading international earthquake expert, Robert Yeats, explores both the regional and plate-tectonic context of active faults, providing the background ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

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    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Piton de la Fournaise and Karthala are both shield volcanoes in the southwest Indian Ocean. This publication summarizes the work done on these very active basaltic volcanoes. Piton de la Fournaise has a long history of scientific research and monitoring, with many data collected during recent eruptions. It is certainly one of the most studied volcanoes in the world. The work presented in this ... En savoir plus

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  • Preparing for Earthquakes: Lessons for India

    par T. G. Sitharam, Sreevalsa Kolathayar ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The primary goals of this brief are to invoke alertness and solidarity among the public in earthquake prone areas of India, and to empower the community to prepare themselves to face and manage the aftermath of an earthquake. The work presented here sheds new light on the action plans to be taken by the common public and public agencies, before, during and after earthquakes to safeguard lives of ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    par Michael J. Benton ...
    "Michael Benton's splendid book brings back to Earth Science a sense of adventure. . . . It is both a wonderfully good read and a valued reference." —James Lovelock, author of Gaia and Homage to GaiaToday it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe ... En savoir plus

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  • Volcanoes & Earthquakes, What & Why? : 2nd Grade Science Series

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    par Baby Professor ...
    Collections series Children's Earthquake & Volcano Books
    Why do volcanoes and earthquakes happen? Is Earth throwing a tantrum? Let your child decode the answers for these on his/her own through this interactive educational book. Composed of pictures that allow for the understanding of geology and vulcanology, this is a great resource that would complement the heavy school textbooks. Grab a copy now! ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Cities at Risk

    Living with Perils in the 21st Century

    Modifié par Tiziana Rossetto, Helene Joffe, John Adams ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    With the major growth of the world’s population over the past century, as well as rapid urbanisation, people increasingly live in crowded cities. This trend is often accompanied by proliferation of poorly built housing, uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe environments and overstretched services. When a natural hazard strikes such a city many people are vulnerable to loss of life and ... En savoir plus

    $115.29 CAD

  • Slope Earthquake Stability

    par Yang Changwei, Zhang Jingyu, Lian Jing, Yu Wenying, Zhang Jianjing ...
    Collections series Engineering (R0)
    This book begins with the dynamic characteristics of the covering layerbedrock type slope, containing monitoring data of the seismic array, shaking table tests, numerical analysis and theoretical derivation. Then it focuses on the landslide mechanism and assessment method. It also proposes a model that assessing the hazard area based on the field investigations. Many questions, exercises and ... En savoir plus

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    par Enrique Collazo ...
    Here is an Earth Science Project that is fun and educational. It has been tried out by hundreds of kids from the 3rd grade on up. It can be used for the classroom or the home, either way, your kids will have fun! ... En savoir plus

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  • Chicxulub: The Impact and Tsunami

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    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 Km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of asteroids and the likelihood of future Earth-impacts. The story then turns to the discovery of a global sediment layer attributed to the fallout from the impact and a piecing together of the evidence ... En savoir plus

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    par Jay Ameratunga, Nagaratnam Sivakugan, Braja M. Das ...
    Collections series Developments in Geotechnical Engineering
    This book presents a one-stop reference to the empirical correlations used extensively in geotechnical engineering. Empirical correlations play a key role in geotechnical engineering designs and analysis. Laboratory and in situ testing of soils can add significant cost to a civil engineering project. By using appropriate empirical correlations, it is possible to derive many design parameters, thus ... En savoir plus

    $204.99 CAD

  • Risk Governance

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    Modifié par Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
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    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... En savoir plus

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