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Hurricane!: Coping with Disaster: Progress and Challenges Since Galveston, 1900
Contributor(s): Simpson, Robert (Editor), Anthes, Richard (Editor), Garstan, Michael (Editor)
ISBN: 0875902979     ISBN-13: 9780875902975
Publisher: American Geophysical Union
OUR PRICE:   $94.00  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2003
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Physics - Geophysics
Dewey: 363.349
LCCN: 2002033280
Series: Special Publications
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 360 pages
 
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Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Special Publications Series.


Hurricane research implicates something more than science. It is the key to saving lives and mitigating economic damage. From the Galveston catastrophe of 1900, where more than 8,000 people died, to the economic devastation wrought by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 in the United States, scientists have striven to understand and track hurricanes while charting their societal effects. Hurricane Coping with Disaster tells the dramatic history of that effort by leading meteorologists--the men and women who brought hurricane science into the 21st century, and those who sustain it today. for readers everywhere interested in climatology, hurricane research, the historical background, and more.