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La mort des dinosaures : l'hypothèse cosmique
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ISBN: 2020361736 9782020361736 Year: 1999 Volume: S133 Publisher: Paris Éd. du Seuil

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Physical aspects of natural catastrophes
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ISBN: 0444412166 9780444412164 Year: 1975 Publisher: Amsterdam : Elsevier Scientific Publishing,

The new catastrophism : the importance of the rare event in geological history
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ISBN: 0521483581 0521420199 9780521483582 9780521420198 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Rare and violent events through geological time are the theme of this readable and thought-provoking view of the Earth's history. The evidence for episodes and rare "catastrophic" happenings have been gleaned from the geological record in the author's travels all over the world. Such events are shown to dominate over the gradual and continuous processes that we see in the record of the history of the Earth. From hurricanes to episodic evolution, from colliding continents to asteroid impacts--the importance of these events are presented with many illustrations, both pictorial and anecdotal.

Mass extinctions and their aftermath
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ISBN: 0198549164 0198549172 9780198549161 Year: 1997 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,


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Les risques majeurs en Région wallonne : prévenir en aménageant
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ISBN: 2874012092 9782874012099 Year: 2006 Volume: 7 Publisher: Namur : Ministère de la région wallonne, direction générale de l'aménagement du territoire, du logement et du patrimoine, division de l'aménagement et de l'urbanisme,


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Seismic city
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ISBN: 029574247X 9780295742472 9780295742465 0295742461 Year: 2017 Publisher: Seattle

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"Seismic City argues that the disaster of 1906 must be understood as part of the ordinary relationship between the city and its natural surroundings. Despite its short-term drama and immediate impact on people's lives, the 1906 earthquake and fire did not transform the history of San Francisco. Instead, San Franciscans rapidly incorporated the crisis into pre-existing debates about urban ecology, urban development, and social relations in the city. In the modern era, Americans have generally viewed 'natural' disasters as anomalous, exceptional events. Interpreting disasters as unpredictable 'acts of nature' that represent a disruption of ordinary life has justified a failure to adequately plan for disasters and concealed the ways in which social factors such as poverty play as much of a role in causing disasters as the geological or meteorological events that precipitate crises. By applying these insights to a close study of San Francisco's 1906 earthquake, including the decades leading up to the disaster and the city's recovery in the years after 1906, this project demonstrates how disaster and recovery became integrated into San Francisco's history, rather than transforming the city, and makes an important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of natural disaster studies"--Provided by publisher.

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