Download or read book Natural Hazards at Glenorchy written by Otago (N.Z.). Regional Council and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geomorphological Mapping written by Mike J. Smith and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Section 1. Geomorphological mapping -- section 2. Techniques in applied geomorphological mapping -- section 3. Case studies.

Download or read book Perception of Natural Hazards Among the General Public written by J. D. Gough and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Geomorphology and Natural Hazards written by Timothy R. Davies and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-05 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural disasters are occasional intense events that disturb Earth's surface, but their impact can be felt long after. Hazard events such as earthquakes, volcanos, drought, and storms can trigger a catastrophic reshaping of the landscape through the erosion, transport, and deposition of different kinds of materials. Geomorphology and Natural Hazards: Understanding Landscape Change for Disaster Mitigation is a graduate level textbook that explores the natural hazards resulting from landscape change and shows how an Earth science perspective can inform hazard mitigation and disaster impact reduction. Volume highlights include: Definitions of hazards, risks, and disasters Impact of different natural hazards on Earth surface processes Geomorphologic insights for hazard assessment and risk mitigation Models for predicting natural hazards How human activities have altered 'natural' hazards Complementarity of geomorphology and engineering to manage threats

Download or read book Natural Hazards Earth s Processes as Hazards Disasters and Catastrophes 4th Edition written by Edward Keller and published by Pearson Higher Education AU. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Natural Hazards written by David Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bushfires, floods, hurricanes and earthquakes are natural phenomena, inspiring both fear and dread when human life or property is affected. While a blizzard in Alaska may hardly be noticed, that same blizzard in Sydney, Australia, would create hovoc, bringing with it a sudden engery crisis as people attempted to keep warm in a city totally unused to such weather.

Download or read book Natural Hazards in Australia written by R. L. Heathcote and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Natural Hazards written by Edward Bryant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-21 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural hazards afflict all corners of the Earth; often unexpected, seemingly unavoidable and frequently catastrophic in their impact. This revised edition is a comprehensive, inter-disciplinary treatment of the full range of natural hazards. Accessible, readable and well supported by over 180 maps, diagrams and photographs, it is a standard text for students and an invaluable guide for professionals in the field. Clearly and concisely, the author describes and explains how hazards occur, examines prediction methods, considers recent and historical hazard events and explores the social impact of such disasters. This revised edition, first published in 2005, makes good use of the wealth of recent research into climate change and its effects.

Download or read book Natural Hazards Photograph Catalog written by National Geophysical Data Center and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Photographs of damage caused by natural hazards represent a unique form of data, which captures the transient consequences of Earth's periodic upheavals. They preserve a permanent record of the sometimes destructive effects that otherwise would be erased forever in cleanup and reconstruction operations. Photographs serve as a reminder to both the research scientist and the layman not only that such events can-and probably will-reoccur, but that we should be prepared to handle their consequences in the future"--Introduction.

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Download or read book The Lark Trilogy written by Neville Peat and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three terrific books in one from one of New Zealand's leading natural-history and adventure writers. A quirky character called The Lark is threaded through three of Neville Peat's most highly acclaimed books: The Falcon and the Lark; Coasting: The Sea- Lion and the Lark, and High Country Lark. Whether they are set in Strath Taieri in Otago, along the Otago coastline or in the high country around the head of Lake Wakatipu, these three books demonstrate Peat's wry humour, keen observational skills, and knowledge of and love for our wilder places and the creatures and people who inhabit them. They are at once affecting ruminations and deft natural-history writing. With Peat, the reader is in masterful hands.

Download or read book Geomorphology and Natural Hazards written by Paul A. Gares and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Natural Hazards written by Edward A. Keller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new revised fifth edition of Natural Hazards remains the go-to introductory-level survey intended for university and college courses that are concerned with earth processes that have direct, and often sudden and violent, impacts on human society. The text integrates principles of geology, hydrology, meteorology, climatology, oceanography, soil science, ecology, and solar system astronomy. The textbook explains the earth processes that drive hazardous events in an understandable way, illustrate how these processes interact with our civilization, and describe how we can better adjust to their effects. Written by leading scholars in the area, the new edition of this book takes advantage of the greatly expanding amount of information regarding natural hazards, disasters, and catastrophes. The text is designed for learning with each chapter broken into small consumable chunks of content for students. Each chapter opens with a list of learning objectives and ends with revision as well as high-level critical thinking questions. A Concepts in Review feature provides an innovative end-of-chapter section that breaks down the chapter content by parts: reviewing the learning objectives, summary points, important visuals, and key terms. New case studies of hazardous events have been integrated into the text, and students are invited to actively apply their understanding of the five fundamental concepts that serve as a conceptual framework for the text. Figures, illustrations, and photos have been updated throughout. The book is designed for a course in natural hazards for nonscience majors, and a primary goal of the text is to assist instructors in guiding students who may have little background in science to understand physical earth processes as natural hazards and their consequences to society.

Download or read book The Hazardousness of a Place written by Kenneth Hewitt and published by Published for the University of Toronto, Department of Geography, by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Explanatory Notes for the Natural Hazards Potential Map of the Circum Pacific Region Southwest Quadrant written by R. Wally Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Nature Fights Back written by John Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1996-02-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1987, this completely revised second edition covers the natural hazards topic for fifth form/year 11 geography students, and can be used in fourth and sixth forms. Natural hazards and disasters are defined in the New Zealand context, and floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, and tropical cyclones in the Southwest Pacific are studied. Reference is made to relevant events in other countries. Extensive use is made of maps, drawings and photographs, and student-centred activities are focused on. A glossary of terms and index are provided. Soft cover.