Managing Children in Disasters: Planning for Their Unique Needs
Authors:Jane A. Bullock , George Haddow, Damon P. Coppola Highlighting the infrastructure that supports children in a safe and secure…
Clumsy Floodplains: Responsive Land Policy for Extreme Floods
By Thomas Hartmann Adopting an innovative interdisciplinary approach, this book examines how society can manage the use of the floodplains…
The Resilience Machine
Edited By Jim Bohland, Simin Davoudi, Jennifer L. Lawrence Bringing together authors from multiple disciplines and different parts of the…
Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario
Edited by Francesco Musco This book Fosters decision support systems for effective long-term urban planning to mitigate and reduce urban…
The Weather of the Future
Authored by Heidi Cullen This book offers a new way of viewing the climate-change phenomenon, not as some future event…
Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003
Authored by Richard C. Keller Fatal Isolation tells the stories of heat wave victims and the catastrophe that took their…