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  1. Natural disasters

    Abbott, Patrick L.
    5th ed. - Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2006.

  2. Natural disasters

    Abbott, Patrick L.
    6th ed. - Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2008.

    This book focuses on natural disasters: how the normal processes of the Earth concentrate their energies and deal heavy blows to humans and their structures. It is concerned with how the natural world operates and, in so doing, kills and maims humans and destroys their works. Throughout the book, certain themes are maintained: energy sources underlying disasters; plate tectonics and climate change; earth processes operating in rock, water, and atmosphere; significance of geologic time; complexities of multiple variables operating simultaneously; and detailed and readable case studies.

  3. Natural disasters

    Abbott, Patrick L.
    2nd ed. - Boston : WCB/McGraw-Hill, c1999.

    This text explores natural disasters such as volcanoes, earthquakes, flooding and other hazards. It looks at how these phenomena develop and their impact on the environment.

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  1. Housing Statistics: Disasters, Dominican Republic, 2010

    East View Cartographic, Inc and Dominican Republic. Dirección General de Estadística y Censos
    2010

    This polygon shapefile contains statistics on disasters affecting housing segments from the 2010 Census of the Dominican Republic. The census infor...

  2. Housing Statistics: Environmental Risk, Dominican Republic, 2010

    East View Cartographic, Inc and Dominican Republic. Dirección General de Estadística y Censos
    2010

    This polygon shapefile contains statistics on household exposure to environmental risks (landslides, rock slides, and wildfires) from the 2010 Cens...

  3. 2010 U.S. National Atlas Historic Earthquakes

    2010

    U.S. National Atlas Historic Earthquakes represents the locations of significant, historic earthquakes in United States and adjacent Canada and Mex...

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