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  • MOUNTAIN ICE AND WATER
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    MOUNTAIN ICE AND WATER
    JOHN F. SHRODER / GREGORY B GREENWOOD
    Mountain Ice and Water: Investigations of the Hydrologic Cycle in Alpine Environments is a new volume of papers reviewed and edited by John Shroder, Emeritus Professor of Geography and Geology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA, and Greg Greenwood, Director of the Mountain Research Initiative from Bern, Switzerland. Chapters in this book were derived from research pa...

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  • TRANSBOUNDARY WATER RESOURCES IN AFGHANISTAN
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    TRANSBOUNDARY WATER RESOURCES IN AFGHANISTAN
    JOHN F. SHRODER / SHER JAN AHMADZAI
    Transboundary Water from Afghanistan: Climate Change, and Land-Use Implications brings together diverse factual material on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources. It is the outgrowth of long-term deep knowledge and experience gained by the authors, as well as the material developed from a seri...

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  • HIMALAYA TO THE SEA
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    HIMALAYA TO THE SEA
    JOHN F. SHRODER JR.
    First Published in 2004. Plate tectonic collision, climate oscillation, glacial fluctuation, severe wind and water erosion—all have wrought dramatic change on the landscape of the Western Himalaya, one of the most dynamic and spectacular landscapes on Earth. Study of the region—from the Western Himalaya foothills and lowlands to the Arabian Sea—is of particular value to geology...

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  • TREATISE ON GEOMORPHOLOGY: V1-14
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    TREATISE ON GEOMORPHOLOGY: V1-14
    SHRODER, JOHN F.
    The changing focus and approach of geomorphic research suggests that the time is opportune for a summary of the state of discipline. The number of peer-reviewed papers published in geomorphic journals has grown steadily for more than two decades and, more importantly, the diversity of authors with respect to geographic location and disciplinary background (geography, geology, e...

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  • SNOW AND ICE-RELATED HAZARDS, RISKS, AND DISASTERS
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    SNOW AND ICE-RELATED HAZARDS, RISKS, AND DISASTERS
    HAEBERLI, WILFRIED / WHITEMAN, COLIN / SHRODER, JOHN F.
    Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in glacier surges and melting, ice shelf collapses, paleo-climate reconstruction, sea level rise, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness, and mitigation. It takes a geo-scientific approach to the topic while also covering current thinking about directly...

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  • WILDFIRE HAZARDS, RISKS, AND DISASTERS
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    WILDFIRE HAZARDS, RISKS, AND DISASTERS
    PATON, DOUGLAS / SHRODER, JOHN F.
    More than 90% of wildfires are caused by human activity, but other causes include lighting, drought, wind and changing weather conditions, underground coal fires, and even volcanic activity. Wildfire Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, one of nine volumes in the Elsevier Hazards and Disasters series, provides a close and detailed examination of wildfires and measures for more thorou...

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  • VOLCANIC HAZARDS, RISKS AND DISASTERS
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    VOLCANIC HAZARDS, RISKS AND DISASTERS
    PAPALE, PAOLO / SHRODER, JOHN F.
    Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while integrating the social and economic issues related to volcanoes and v...

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  • HYDRO-METEOROLOGICAL HAZARDS, RISKS, AND DISASTERS
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    HYDRO-METEOROLOGICAL HAZARDS, RISKS, AND DISASTERS
    PARON, PAOLO / BALDASSARRE, GIULIANO DI / SHRODER, JOHN F.
    Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major atmospheric disasters that have had and continue to have major implications for many of the world’s people, such as floods and droughts. . This volume takes a geoscientific approach to the topic, while also covering current thinking about some directly relevant social scientific issues that ...

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  • COASTAL AND MARINE HAZARDS, RISKS, AND DISASTERS
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    COASTAL AND MARINE HAZARDS, RISKS, AND DISASTERS
    ELLIS, JEAN / SHERMAN, DOUGLAS J. / SHRODER, JOHN F.
    Sea and Ocean Hazards, Risks and Disasters provides a scientific approach to those hazards and disasters related to the Earth's coasts and oceans. This is the first book to integrate scientific, social, and economic issues related to disasters such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and planning, relevant hazard process mechanics, discussions of preparedness, response, an...

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  • HAZARDS, RISKS AND, DISASTERS IN SOCIETY
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    HAZARDS, RISKS AND, DISASTERS IN SOCIETY
    COLLINS, ANDREW E. / SAMANTHA, JONES / MANYENA, BERNARD / JAYAWICKRAMA, JANAKA / SHRODER, JOHN F.
    Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard exposure. Societies that strengthen themselves, or are strengthened, mitigate decline and resultant further exposure ...

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  • NATURAL RESOURCES IN AFGHANISTAN: GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGIC PERSPECTIVES ON CENTURIES OF CONFLICT
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    NATURAL RESOURCES IN AFGHANISTAN: GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGIC PERSPECTIVES ON CENTURIES OF CONFLICT
    SHRODER, JOHN F.
    Natural Resources in Afghanistan: Geographic and Geologic Perspectives on Centuries of Conflict details Afghanistan's physical geography — namely climate, soils, vegetation, water, hazards, and basic geologic background and terrain landforms — together with details of its rich natural resources, ethnic problems, and relevant past histories. The book couples these details with t...

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  • EARTHQUAKE HAZARD, RISK, AND DISASTERS
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    EARTHQUAKE HAZARD, RISK, AND DISASTERS
    WYSS, MAX / SHRODER, JOHN F.
    Earthquake Hazard, Risk, and Disasters presents the latest scientific developments and reviews of research addressing seismic hazard and seismic risk, including causality rates, impacts on society, preparedness, insurance and mitigation. The current controversies in seismic hazard assessment and earthquake prediction are addressed from different points of view. Basic tools for ...

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  • BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS, RISKS, AND DISASTERS
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    BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS, RISKS, AND DISASTERS
    SIVANPILLAI, RAMESH / SHRODER, JOHN F.
    Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth’s biosphere. Many of these are caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid strikes that have important implications for humans. This volume, from Elsevier’s Hazards and Disasters...

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