Catálogo de libros: Desastres naturales

226 Catálogo de libros: Desastres naturales

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  • Predicting Natural Disasters With AI and Machine Learning
    In a world where the relentless force of natural and man-made disasters threatens societies, the need for effective disaster management has never been more critical. Predicting Natural Disasters With AI and Machine Learning addresses the challenges of disasters and charts a path toward proactive solutions by applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). This ...
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    412,76 €

  • Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes and Flooding
    This book explores the relationship between tourism and high-magnitude storm events. It considers the measures available to manage tourism after major storms and floods, examines the means to mitigate the potential impacts of these disasters on tourism, and provides insights into the ethical issues facing tourism after a major flood or storm. ...
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    60,32 €

  • Tourism, Cyclones, Hurricanes and Flooding
    This book explores the relationship between tourism and high-magnitude storm events. It considers the measures available to manage tourism after major storms and floods, examines the means to mitigate the potential impacts of these disasters on tourism, and provides insights into the ethical issues facing tourism after a major flood or storm. ...
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    181,93 €

  • Internet of Things and AI for Natural Disaster Management and Prediction
    In a world where natural disasters wreak havoc with increasing frequency and severity, the need for accurate prediction and effective management has never been more critical. From earthquakes shattering communities to floods submerging vast regions, these events endanger lives and strain resources and infrastructure to their limits. Yet, amidst this turmoil, traditional forecas...
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    340,42 €

  • Internet of Things and AI for Natural Disaster Management and Prediction
    In a world where natural disasters wreak havoc with increasing frequency and severity, the need for accurate prediction and effective management has never been more critical. From earthquakes shattering communities to floods submerging vast regions, these events endanger lives and strain resources and infrastructure to their limits. Yet, amidst this turmoil, traditional forecas...
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    452,00 €

  • Predicting Natural Disasters With AI and Machine Learning
    In a world where the relentless force of natural and man-made disasters threatens societies, the need for effective disaster management has never been more critical. Predicting Natural Disasters With AI and Machine Learning addresses the challenges of disasters and charts a path toward proactive solutions by applying artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). This ...
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    314,25 €

  • Modeling and Monitoring Extreme Hydrometeorological Events
    In a world experiencing increasingly intense hydrometeorological events driven by climate change, the need for effective solutions is paramount. Modeling and Monitoring Extreme Hydrometeorological Events presents a cutting-edge exploration of the challenges posed by flash droughts and floods, offering innovative methodologies and tools to address these global issues. Through a ...
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    327,84 €

  • The Disaster Preparedness Survival Guide
    Pasindu A
    Are you prepared for the next disaster? Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, wars, and wildfires can strike at any time, and it’s important to be prepared. The Disaster Preparedness Survival Guide: 10 Tips on How to Plan and Prepare for Any Emergency will give you the essential knowledge and tools you need to protect yourself and your loved ones in the event of a disaste...
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    14,24 €

  • Trapped in Paradise
    Jeremy Hooper
    This is the story of two Hawaiian vacationers who found themselves in midst of unspeakable devastation on Maui in August 2023 when deadly wildfires destroyed much of the west side of the island. This book is dedicated to the courageous people of Lahaina who will rebuild their iconic and historic town that lies in one of the most beautiful places on earth. ...
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    12,78 €

  • The Nonsense of Global Warming and Climate Change
    Dirk van Leenen
    The truth about the earth we live on. Everything we create, consume, build, manufacture and waste comes from the earth and returns to the earth, from dust to dust. Everything that happens on the earth, has a purpose. Man cannot change the earth’s nature! Even pollution, forest fires, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have a corrective purpose on the earth. ...
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    18,00 €

  • The Nonsense of Global Warming and Climate Change
    Dirk van Leenen
    The truth about the earth we live on. Everything we create, consume, build, manufacture and waste comes from the earth and returns to the earth, from dust to dust. Everything that happens on the earth, has a purpose. Man cannot change the earth’s nature! Even pollution, forest fires, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have a corrective purpose on the earth. ...
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    25,41 €

  • One Week In August
    Jim McAllister
    One Week in August: Stories from Search and Rescue in British Columbia provides insights into how volunteer search and rescue groups, volunteer members, and agencies respond to locate lost persons and rescue those hurt or stranded.Based on actual incidents and responses that took place during one week in 2004 under very challenging conditions, individuals and some of those resc...
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    21,33 €

  • The Big Flood Glenreagh 1950
    Commissioned by the Glenreagh School of Arts to coincide with their Cedar & Steam Art Competition in 2023, the book is a compilation of illustrated poetry and short stories. In 1950 Glenreagh, on the Orara River in the north east of NSW, Australia, experienced a huge flood which washed houses off their foundations and caused massive destruction of property and livestock in the ...
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    15,39 €

  • flood
    Nicole Kooyman
    In November 2021, disaster struck the Sumas Prairie in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. A massive, heavy rainfall made land causing floods and mudslides - destroying homes, livelihoods and lives. Flood is a firsthand account of one woman’s experience on her family’s chicken farm, before, during and after the flood. The events unfold moment-to-moment through journal entrie...
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    17,74 €

  • flood
    Nicole Kooyman
    In November 2021, disaster struck the Sumas Prairie in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia. A massive, heavy rainfall made land causing floods and mudslides - destroying homes, livelihoods and lives. Flood is a firsthand account of one woman’s experience on her family’s chicken farm, before, during and after the flood. The events unfold moment-to-moment through journal entrie...
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    26,35 €

  • Vanguard Of Nature Book One of the Series Nature Against Humanity
    T William Pleasant
    Vanguard Of Nature Book One Of Nature Against HumanityLet No Beast Stand In Their WayT WILLIAM PLEASANTJuly 5th, 2021ISBN 978-1-7365598-3-3Copyright © 2021 By T. William Pleasant ...
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    25,40 €

  • Risk Analysis, Hazard Mitigation and Safety and Security Engineering XIII
    Research and industrial developments in the theoretical and practical aspects of safety and security engineering are the focus of this volume. This field, due to its special nature, is an interdisciplinary area of research and application that brings together, in a systematic way, many disciplines of engineering from the traditional to the most technologically advanced. The inc...
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    158,89 €

  • Hurricane Jim Crow
    Caroline Grego
    On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane’s long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental change. In the Lowcountry, the po...
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    126,76 €

  • Hurricane Jim Crow
    Caroline Grego
    On an August night in 1893, the deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history struck the Lowcountry, killing thousands—almost all African American. But the devastating storm is only the beginning of this story. The hurricane’s long effects intermingled with ongoing processes of economic downturn, racial oppression, resistance, and environmental change. In the Lowcountry, the po...
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    37,90 €

  • We Are All Survivors
    Carl Lindahl
    What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster and its aftermath? Can folklorists contribute to broader understandings of empathy and the ro...
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    35,81 €

  • We Are All Survivors
    Carl Lindahl
    What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for navigating and narrating disaster and its aftermath? Can folklorists contribute to broader understandings of empathy and the ro...
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    85,55 €

  • Urban Water Systems & Floods IV
    Research works were presented at the 8th International Conference on Flood and Urban Water Management with the aim of developing innovative solutions that can help bring about multiple benefits toward achieving integrated flood risk and urban water management strategies and policy. The papers resulting from these works form this book.Flooding is a global phenomenon that claims ...
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    76,23 €

  • Narrowing the Disaster Risk Protection Gap in Central Asia
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication examines risks from flooding and earthquakes in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region. It assesses the protection gap and identifies ways of strengthening financing.CAREC member countries face growing levels of disaster risk without sufficient financial protection. Regional cooperation can help narrow the protection gap and increase the ...
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    35,35 €

  • Wasn’t That a Mighty Day
    Luigi Monge
    Wasn’t That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster takes a comprehensive look at sacred and secular disaster songs, shining a spotlight on their historical and cultural importance. Featuring newly transcribed lyrics, the book offers sustained attention to how both Black and white communities responded to many of the tragic events that occurred before ...
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    56,34 €

  • Control (Powerless Earth Book Two) (Dyslexia Friendly Edition)
    Paul McMurrough
    Dyslexia Friendly EditionThis book has been reworked and reformatted in line with British Dyslexia Association and Dyslexia Association of Ireland guildlines.Sequel to the five-star dystopian thriller Reliance.With the world still crippled by an unprecedented power cut, Lisa, Simon, and Derek find refuge at Lisa’s family home in Donegal. With its own source of power, the self-s...
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    19,74 €

  • Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explores practical ways of providing disaster-resilient infrastructure along with significant co-benefits across Asia and the Pacific.Risks posed by natural hazards are expected to intensify as economies grow, urbanize, and grapple with climate change. Roads, bridges, power networks, and other infrastructure assets are central to people’s daily lives and econom...
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    38,89 €

  • ART AND SCIENCE OF MANAGING PUBLIC RISKS
    Dinesh K Srivastava / DINESH K SRIVASTAVA & SH V S RAMAMURTHY / Shailesh Nayak / V S Ramamurthy
    The COVID-19 and the onslaught of Climate Change have exposed the fragility of our lives and ecosystem. Natural disasters like asteroid impact, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, cyclones, etc., and pandemics like plagues, smallpox, cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, etc., have been man’s nemesis from the beginning of time. This list of public risks has now expande...
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    157,48 €

  • ART AND SCIENCE OF MANAGING PUBLIC RISKS
    Dinesh K Srivastava / DINESH K SRIVASTAVA & SH V S RAMAMURTHY / Shailesh Nayak / V S Ramamurthy
    The COVID-19 and the onslaught of Climate Change have exposed the fragility of our lives and ecosystem. Natural disasters like asteroid impact, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, cyclones, etc., and pandemics like plagues, smallpox, cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, etc., have been man’s nemesis from the beginning of time. This list of public risks has now expande...
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    79,24 €

  • Disaster Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
    A combined analysis of all the chapters provides an interesting summary and information for creating disaster management policies for improved results in SSA. With an extensive glossary of terms and index, the book lends itself to specialized academics and students, but also to disaster management policy makers and practitioners. ...
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    150,83 €

  • Compound Risk Analysis of Natural Hazards and Infectious Disease Outbreaks
    Asian Development Bank
    This study explores the potential impacts of compounding risk between natural hazards and infectious disease outbreaks such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic in the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) region.Compound risk occurs when two or more shock events overlap, inducing additional pressure on social and physical vulnerabilities. As part of the study, scenario...
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    29,42 €


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