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This book sheds light on the management challenges of crisis and emergency response in an arctic environment. It explores how the complexity of the operational environment impacts on the risk of operations and addresses a need for tailor-made emergency response mechanisms.
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This book examines changing gender roles, relations and hierarchies in an ethnic minority community in Central Viet Nam. After decades of war, the community continued... Læs mere
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This book traces the linkages between climate and environment-related hazards and migration, and attempts to dispel some popular myths. While... Læs mere
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On May 12, 2008, Wenchuan County in Sichuan suffered an earthquake of 8.0 on the Richter Scale. Applying the remote sensing technology, the Chinese... Læs mere
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Overcoming Katrina tells the stories of 27 New Orleanians as they fought to survive Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.... Læs mere
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This book discusses the geology, hydrogeology, and water quality/geochemistry of karst systems in geologically young terrain, using the state of Florida as an example.
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The systematic methodology of comprehensive ecological assessment of anthropogenic impact on natural geosystems and their differentiations on the level of technogenic conditionality for ensuring rational environmental management and environmental protection are discussed.
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Landslides in cold regions have different mechanisms from those in other areas, and comparatively few research efforts have been made in this field. This book collects key case studies from the cold regions all over the world, providing an overview of the general situation.
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Tohoku University and Iwate University, both at the center of post-disaster reconstruction following the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami;
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While the first book provided a detailed look into two main kinds of natural disasters (of seismic and volcanic character), this volume presents natural disasters of all kinds: geophysical, hydrological, climatological and biological.
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This book bridges the gap between history and science, reexamining eyewitness accounts of the flood and historic documents about the investigation, and applying new LiDAR, GPS, and hydraulic studies to solve the mystery – what caused the Great Flood of 1889?