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ISBN: 9783642363788 - Developments in Multidimensional Spatial Data Models Developments in Multidimensional Spatial Data Models
Alias Abdul-Rahman, Pawel Boguslawski, Christopher Gold, Mohamad Nor Said

ISBN10: 3642363784  ISBN13: 9783642363788
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 31 May 2013
This book presents the latest research developments in geoinformation science, including such sub-disciplines as geomatic engineering, GIS, remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, digital cartography and more. This book presents the latest... More

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ISBN: 9780199678754 - Waking the Giant Waking the Giant
Bill McGuire

ISBN10: 0199678758  ISBN13: 9780199678754
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
The last 20,000 years has seen our world flip from icehouse to greenhouse, provoking earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic outbursts. Like a giant stirring from a long sleep, the Earth beneath our feet tossed and turned. Bill McGuire argues that... More

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ISBN: 9783642258923 - Teide Volcano Teide Volcano
Juan Carlos Carracedo, Valentin Troll

ISBN10: 3642258921  ISBN13: 9783642258923
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition: 2012
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 20 Apr 2013
This book reviews recent research on the latest eruptive cycle of volcanic activity in Tenerife: The formation of the Caldera de Las Canadas; the subsequent filling by rift activity and the eventual construction of Teide stratovolcano. More

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ISBN: 9789400761834 - Cities at Risk Cities at Risk
Tiziana Rossetto, Helene Joffe, John Adams

ISBN10: 940076183X  ISBN13: 9789400761834
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 Apr 2013
When a natural hazard strikes a city, many people are vulnerable. This book explores what city-dwellers think and feel about the threats that they face. It brings to light the ways different cultures represent the natural hazards around them. More

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ISBN: 9789400758742 - Floods in Megacity Floods in Megacity
Ashraf Dewan

ISBN10: 940075874X  ISBN13: 9789400758742
Publisher: Springer
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 15 Mar 2013
This book offers a new approach to mapping populations, infrastructures and communities at risk, using remote sensing, GIS and census data to better grasp flood vulnerability in megacities of developing countries. Includes a case study of Dhaka... More

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ISBN: 9781844089284 - Wave Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala

ISBN10: 1844089282  ISBN13: 9781844089284
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Virago Press Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 12 Mar 2013
A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of learning to live with grief--that begins in Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. The book opens... More

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ISBN: 9781844089079 - The Wave The Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala

ISBN10: 184408907X  ISBN13: 9781844089079
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Virago Press Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 12 Mar 2013
A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of learning to live with grief--that begins in Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. The book opens... More

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ISBN: 9780312676452 - The Year without Summer The Year without Summer
William K Klingaman

ISBN10: 031267645X  ISBN13: 9780312676452
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 11 Mar 2013
1816 was a remarkable year - mostly for the fact that there was no summer. As a result of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia, weather patterns were disrupted worldwide for months. This book examines the climate change engendered by this event... More

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ISBN: 9781133598640 - Natural Hazards and Disasters Natural Hazards and Disasters
Donald W Hyndman

ISBN10: 1133598641  ISBN13: 9781133598640
Publisher: Cengage Learning, Inc Brooks/Cole
Edition: International ed of 4th revised ed
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 31 Jan 2013
Brings course concepts to life with interactive learning, study, and exam preparation tools along with market leading text content for introductory earth science courses. This title helps students understand the underlying geological processes... More

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ISBN: 9783642348389 - Modelling Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol Modelling Tropospheric Volcanic Aerosol
Anja Schmidt

ISBN10: 3642348386  ISBN13: 9783642348389
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 16 Jan 2013
Using a state-of-the-art global microphysics model, this book examines the impact of tropospheric volcanic aerosol on the atmosphere, climate, air quality and human health. It shows that continuously degassing volcanoes exert a major effect on... More