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Author: Rachel Eagen
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780778715771
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the mythological flood stories of ancient cultures to the annual flooding of Earth's mightiest rivers, life-giving water can be a raging torrent of death and destruction. Flood and Monsoon Alert! examines how these devastating natural disasters occur and how people cope with their devastation.
Author: Rachel Eagen
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 2004-09-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781417668281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains the science behind floods and monsoons.
Author: Joyce Markovics
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1617722898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the rescue efforts involved in saving the lives of animals affected by an earthquake, including puppies, farm animals, and pandas.
Author: Marne Ventura
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Published: 2015-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781609731588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn how people trapped because of high water endure and survive against all odds.
Author: Slobodan P. Simonović
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-11-22
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1139851624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFlood risk management is presented in this book as a framework for identifying, assessing and prioritizing climate-related risks and developing appropriate adaptation responses. Rigorous assessment is employed to determine the available probabilistic and fuzzy set-based analytic tools, when each is appropriate and how to apply them to practical problems. Academic researchers in the fields of hydrology, climate change, environmental science and policy and risk assessment, and professionals and policy-makers working in hazard mitigation, water resources engineering and environmental economics, will find this an invaluable resource. This volume is the fourth in a collection of four books on flood disaster management theory and practice within the context of anthropogenic climate change. The others are: Floods in a Changing Climate: Extreme Precipitation by Ramesh Teegavarapu, Floods in a Changing Climate: Hydrologic Modeling by P. P. Mujumdar and D. Nagesh Kumar and Floods in a Changing Climate: Inundation Modelling by Giuliano Di Baldassarre.
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen in doubt, throw it out. Don't risk injury or infection. 2: Ask for help. Many people can do a lot of the cleanup and repairs discussed in this book. But if you have technical questions or do not feel comfortable doing something, get professional help. If there is a federal disaster declaration, a telephone "hotline" will often be publicized to provide information about public, private, and voluntary agency programs to help you recover from the flood. Government disaster programs are there to help you, the taxpayer. You're paying for them; check them out. 3: Floodproof. It is very likely that your home will be flooded again someday. Floodproofing means using materials and practices that will prevent or minimize flood damage in the future. Many floodproofing techniques are inexpensive or can be easily incorporated into your rebuilding program. You can save a lot of money by floodproofing as you repair and rebuild (see Step 8).
Author: Ayesha Siddiqi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-09
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 110859770X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is the state's responsibility to its people in the aftermath of a natural hazard based disaster? The book sets out to address this seemingly simple question, after large scale floods devastated Pakistan in 2010 and then again in 2011. Along the way it delves into rich detail about people's everday encounters with the state in Pakistan, uncovers postcolonial discourses on rights of citizenship and dispels mainstream understanding of Islamist groups as presenting an alternative development paradigm to the state. Based on detailed ethnographic fieldwork, In the Wake of the Disaster forces the reader to look beyond narratives of Pakistan as the perennial 'failing state' falling victim to an imminent 'Islamist takeover'. The book shifts the conversation from hysteria and sensationalism surrounding Pakistan to the everyday. In doing so it transforms our understanding of contemporary disasters.
Author: Joanne Mattern
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 1612366929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn How Dams And Levees Are Built As Well As The Effects They Have On River Systems In A Region, And Places Downstream.
Author: Niki Walker
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780778715849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book describes transportation disasters, such as car and truck accidents, shipwrecks, train derailments, and airplane crashes, and discusses the causes of these disasters.
Author: Julie Karner
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780778715832
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last century has been an incredible age of space exploration tremendously expanding our knowledge of the universe. This amazing book reminds us that such knowledge often comes at a price. Space Disaster and Meteorite Alert! chronicles both the brave and adventurous space missions throughout history that have ended in disaster, as well as an asteroid's journey through the atmosphere to its eventual landing on Earth.
