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International MindTap Instant Access for Hyndman/Hyndmans Natural Hazards and Disasters, 5th Edition

Donald Hyndman

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International MindTap Instant Access for Hyndman/Hyndmans Natural Hazards and Disasters 5th Edition by Donald Hyndman
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International MindTap for Hyndman/Hyndman’s Natural Hazards and Disasters, 5th Edition, is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers. As an instructor using MindTap, you have at your fingertips the right content and unique set of tools curated specifically for your course, all in an interface designed to improve workflow and save time when planning lessons and course structure. The control to build and personalize your course is all yours, focusing on the most relevant material while also lowering costs for your students. Stay connected and informed in your course through real-time student tracking that provides the opportunity to adjust the course as needed based on analytics of interactivity in the course.

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Donald Hyndman

Donald Hyndman is an emeritus professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Montana, where he has taught courses in natural hazards, regional geology, igneous and metamorphic petrology, volcanology and advanced igneous petrology. He continues to lecture on natural hazards and study climate change and its effects on the atmosphere surface processes. Donald is co-originator and co-author of six books in the ROADSIDE GEOLOGY series, one on the geology of the Pacific Northwest and he has also written a textbook entitled PETROLOGY OF IGNEOUS METAMORPHIC ROCKS. His B.S. in Geological Engineering is from the University of British Columbia, and his Ph.D. in Geology is from the University of California Berkeley. He has received the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Distinguished Scholar Award, both given by the University of Montana.

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Table of Contents

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1. Natural Hazards and Disasters.
2. Plate Tectonics and Physical Hazards.
3. Earthquakes and Their Causes.
4. Earthquake Predictions, Forecasts, and Mitigation.
5. Tsunami.
6. Volcanoes: Tectonic Environments and Eruptions.
7. Volcanoes: Hazards and Mitigation.
8. Landslides and Other Downslope Movements.
9. Sinkholes, Land Subsidence, and Swelling Soils.
10. Weather, Thunderstorms, and Tornadoes.
11. Climate Change: Processes and History
12. Climate Change: Impacts and Mitigation
13. Streams and Flood Processes.
14. Floods and Human Interactions.
15. Waves, Beaches, and Coastal Erosion.
16. Hurricanes and Nor’easters.
17. Wildfires.
18. Asteroids and Comet Impacts.

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  • ISBN-10: 8214456371
  • ISBN-13: 9798214456379
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