Author: G. L. DownesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The 1855 Wairarapa, New Zealand, Earthquake
Author: G. L. DownesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Magnitude Eight Plus
Author: R. H. GrapesPublisher: Victoria University Press
ISBN: 9780864733405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Atlas of Isoseismal Maps of New Zealand Earthquakes
Author: G. L. DownesPublisher: Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Limited
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A History of New Zealand Women
Author: Barbara BrookesPublisher: Bridget Williams Books
ISBN: 0908321465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
What would a history of New Zealand look like that rejected Thomas Carlyle’s definition of history as ‘the biography of great men’, and focused instead on the experiences of women? One that shifted the angle of vision and examined the stages of this country’s development from the points of view of wives, daughters, mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and aunts? That considered their lives as distinct from (though often unwillingly influenced by) those of history’s ‘great men’? In her ground-breaking History of New Zealand Women, Barbara Brookes provides just such a history. This is more than an account of women in New Zealand, from those who arrived on the first waka to the Grammy and Man Booker Prize-winning young women of the current decade. It is a comprehensive history of New Zealand seen through a female lens. Brookes argues that while European men erected the political scaffolding to create a small nation, women created the infrastructure necessary for colonial society to succeed. Concepts of home, marriage and family brought by settler women, and integral to the developing state, transformed the lives of Māori women. The small scale of New Zealand society facilitated rapid change so that, by the twenty-first century, women are no longer defined by family contexts. In her long-awaited book, Barbara Brookes traces the factors that drove that change. Her lively narrative draws on a wide variety of sources to map the importance in women’s lives not just of legal and economic changes, but of smaller joys, such as the arrival of a piano from England, or the freedom of riding a bicycle.
Geomorphological Hazards and Disaster Prevention
Author: Irasema Alcántara-AyalaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316175642
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Human activities have had a huge impact on the environment and landscape, through industrialisation and land-use change, leading to climate change, deforestation, desertification, land degradation, and air and water pollution. These impacts are strongly linked to the occurrence of geomorphological hazards, such as floods, landslides, snow avalanches, soil erosion, and others. Geomorphological work includes not only the understanding but the mapping and modelling of Earth's surface processes, many of which directly affect human societies. In addition, geomorphologists are becoming increasingly involved with the dimensions of societal problem solving, through vulnerability analysis, hazard and risk assessment and management. The work of geomorphologists is therefore of prime importance for disaster prevention. An international team of geomorphologists have contributed their expertise to this volume, making this a scientifically rigorous work for a wide audience of geomorphologists and other Earth scientists, including those involved in environmental science, hazard and risk assessment, management and policy.
Geology of the Earthquake Source
Author: Åke FagerengPublisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862393370
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Professor Richard (Rick) Sibson revolutionized structural geology by illustrating that fault rocks contain an integrated record of earthquakes. Fault-rock textures develop in response to geological and physical variables such as composition, environmental conditions (e.g. temperature and pressure), fluid presence and strain rate. These parameters also determine the rate- and state-variable frictional stability of a fault, the dominant mineral deformation mechanism and shear strength, and ultimately control the partitioning between seismic and aseismic deformation. This volume contains a collection of papers that address the geological record of earthquake faulting from field-based or theoretical perspectives.
Visions of Nature
Author: Jarrod HorePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520381254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Introduction : dispossession in focus : between ancestral ties and settler territoriality -- Six geobiographies : senses of site in the white settler world -- Space and the settler geographical imagination : the survey, the camera, and the problematic of waste -- A clock for seeing : revelation and rupture in settler colonial landscapes -- Tanga Whaka-ahua or, the man who makes the likenesses : managing indigenous presence in colonial landscapes -- Colonial encounter, epochal time, and settler romanticism in the nineteenth century -- Noble cities from primeval rorest : settler territoriality on the world stage -- Settler nativity : nations and natures into the twentieth century -- Conclusion : settler colonialism, reconciliation, and the problems of place.
Geomorphological Hazards and Disaster Prevention
Author: Irasema AlcántaraPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521769256
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A state-of-the-art assessment of how geomorphology contributes to the comprehension, mapping and modelling of hazardous Earth surface processes.
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