Selected Bibliography of Mass Movement (1969-1976)
Author : Jerome V. DeGraff
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Avalanches
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Author : Jerome V. DeGraff
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 35,87 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Avalanches
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Author : Christopher S. Alger
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Page : 130 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Landslides
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Author : Thomas Glade
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401734909
Natural hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, floods, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and hurricanes cause environmental, economic as well as sociological problems worldwide. In recent years, greater availability of information and sensational media reports of natural hazard occurrence -and in particular in terms of property damage or loss oflife caused by these hazards -resulted in an increase of hazard awareness at a societal level. This increase in public awareness has often been misconstrued as an indication that natural hazards have been occurring more frequently with higher magnitudes in recent years/decades, thus causing more damage than in the past. It is still under debate, however, to which extent recent increases in damage can be related to changing frequencies of natural processes, or whether catastrophic events occur at similar rates as they always had. If the latter is the case, the reason for a greater damage can be related to dramatic population growth over the last century, with a substantial augmentation of population density in some regions. Indeed, the implications are more server in underdeveloped and developing countries, where urbanisation has increasingly occurred in hazard prone areas such as coastal zones, alluvial river plains and steep slopes, thus causing an increase in the exposure to natural hazards. Some groups of society in wealthy countries accept higher risks in order to live directly on top of a cliff or on a steep slope to enjoy panoramic views of the landscape.
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Page : 824 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Geography
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Page : 814 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 1979
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Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 47,57 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Union catalogs
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Engineering geology
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Author : World Data Center A for Glaciology
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Page : 146 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Glaciology
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Author : Arang Keshavarzian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1108982697
The Iranian revolution of 1979 not only had an impact on regional and international affairs, but was made possible by the world and time in which it unfolded. This multi-disciplinary volume presents this revolution within its transnational and global contexts. Moving deftly from the personal to the global and from the provincial to the national, it draws attention to the multiplicity of spaces of the revolution such as streets, schools, prisons, personal lives, and histories such as the Cold War and Global 1960s and 70s. With a broad range of approaches, Global 1979 conceives of the Iranian Revolution not as exceptional or anachronistic, but as an uprising constituted by multiple, interwoven geographies and histories, which disrupt static and bounded notions of the local, national, regional, and global.
Author : Alfred F. Havighurst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2004-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521522472
The most comprehensive bibliography of printed books, articles, and standard texts on twentieth-century England.