Flooding
Steel-Concrete Composite Structures
Nuclear strategy and deterrence in their "golden age" -a nostalgically defined period sometime in the mid-1950s to mid-1960s - promised to harness and control the nuclear Moloch; hopes were high that the civilian strategists flooding into Washington would succeed in designing a n
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The Facility Manager's Emergency Preparedness Handbook
Facility managers have to be ready for anything: bomb threats, flooding, labor strikes, workplace violence -- the list goes on and on. Since 9/11, efforts toward emergency preparedness have increased substantially.
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Landscape Agroecology
Learn how the principles and practices of landscape agroecology can help to overcome drought, flooding, poor soil, damaging winds, plant diseases, plant-eating insects, and more!
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Magic Time
When a string of strange tremors hits New York, cutting off the power permanently, flooding the world with magic, and causing ordinary humans to become the embodiments of their darkest desires and deepest fears, chaos ensues, and young lawyer Cal Griffin joins forces with a spins
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Measuring Vulnerability to Natural Hazards
A seemingly non-stop series of disasters has shown that societies worldwide seem unprepared for the threats posed by natural hazards: Hurricane Katrina, drought in Africa; flooding in China and Germany; earthquakes in Pakistan and India; a tsunami in South-East Asia; and forest f
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The Storm
It was a natural disaster—but magnified enormously by government’s crushing incompetence in both preparation and response. The storm leveled the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but man-made problems destroyed New Orleans. The catastrophic flooding there should never have happened.
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