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Lists approximately 3000 tips to help you make an effective bushfire plan.

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On 11 March 2011, a force-9 earthquake jolted the seabed 66 kilometres due east of Japan. Within 20 minutes, a black tsunami wave 14 metres high rolled in from above the epicentre. While struggling with the unfolding destruction, Japan had to cope with a third calamity -- the malfunctioning of a nuclear-power complex near the town of Fukushima.

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From killer fires to ecosystem rehabilitation, an exhaustive survey exploring the ecological, social, and economic consequences of managing fires in U.S. wildland areas.

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An introduction to the scientific principles behind various geological processes to explain how and why they can sometimes be dangerous to humans, this sourcebook contains numerous examples of famous or recent geological disasters, such as volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunami.

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This book follows environmental changesincluding those caused by human actions, as well as those resulting from natural circumstancesand provides a process to manage their impact on the future.

Whenever environmental damages are caused by natural or human-made events, there are long-term effects for people.

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The Politics of Earthquake Prediction is a suspenseful account of what happens when scientists predict an enormous earthquake for a specific day--an earthquake that did not, in this instance, happen, but which, if it had, would have been one of the most destructive of our century. Working in a field where uncertainty abounds, Dr. Brian Brady of the

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Reveals the short-sightedness behind conceiving of floods, fires, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, hurricanes as natural disasters. This book argues that such thinking has led to policies that have done the environment more harm than good. It points out ways in which we can better address the environmental problems that humanity faces.

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They Call the Wind Maria is the true story of one family's love and survival in a brutal hurricane season. In the chaos of Hurricane Maria's arrival in Puerto Rico Allie and her family leaped into a last-minute survival plan. They would embark on a 9-foot dinghy, through the open sea, with a GPS that could scarcely catch a signal, and without any opportunity to say goodbye to those they love.

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Both law and weather affect us every day of our modern lives, yet most people do not know how the weather has affected developments in the law, nor are they aware of how the law has attempted to develop ways to affect the weather.

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If a natural disaster or other emergency event happened right now, how prepared would you be What would you need to survive

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Explores the impacts of the Black Summer bushfires on biodiversity, and the lessons to be learnt.

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A detailed introduction to what is known and unknown about wildfire spread and its behaviours.

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A riveting account of a day that stopped a nation -- and a community. The Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people -- wreaking a greater human toll than any other fire in Australia's history. Ten of those people died in Steels Creek, a small community on Melbourne's outskirts.

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Remarkable storytelling and deep reportage: A page-turning account of a brutal urban wildfire, and a sweeping exploration of our rapidly changing relationship with fire

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A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind

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A stunning account of this century's most intense urban fire, and a panoramic exploration of the rapidly changing relationship between fire and humankind

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We are living in the age of wildfireit is changing the land, the economy, the welfare of wildlife, and the livability of the American West. Land on Fire explores the science behind wildfire and what is being done to control it.

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Discover the mind-boggling science of the coming apocalypse!