Books and Special Publications

  • This section highlights publications that are of special interest to the NH community: please let us know what could be featured here using the contact form

  • Geomorphological Hazards and Disaster Prevention

    Published by Cambridge University Press
    Edited by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City) and Andrew S. Goudie (St Cross College, Oxford)

    For further information please visit:   • Cambridge catalog

  • Building Safer Communities. Risk Governance, Spatial Planning and Responses to Natural Hazards

    Published by IOS Press and NATO
      • Flyer if PDF form

    For further information please visit the websites:   • IOS Press   • Booksonline

  • Geophysical Hazards


    Geophysical Hazards







    This book brings together some of the most influential international scientists dealing with Natural Hazards and Society’s response to natural hazards. It recognizes that hazards, like poverty, will always be with us but that concerted and organized societal response can prevent a hazard becoming a disaster. By bringing together geoscientists, social scientists and those concerned with the administration of international science and international disaster reduction, this book details the state-of-the-science as well as the state-of-the-response in natural hazards... more








  • Statement on Volcanic Ash Clouds from the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)


      • Statement in PDF form