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Hurricane protection

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• Hazard mitigation
• Hurricanes
• Regional planning

• Hurricane protection -- Gulf States
• Hurricane protection -- Louisiana
• Hurricane protection -- South Atlantic States
• Hurricane protection -- United States
• Afforestation

• Hurricane control
• Hurricane rehabilitation, Long-range

• Catastrophic Coastal Storms: Hazard Mitigation and Development (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by David R. Godschalk, David J. Brower, and Timothy Beatley (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Catastrophic Coastal Storms: Hazard Mitigation and Development (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1989), by David R. Godschalk, David J. Brower, and Timothy Beatley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hurricanes, Unleashing Nature's Fury: A Preparedness Guide (2007), by United States National Weather Service (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Hurricanes, Unleashing Nature's Fury: A Preparedness Guide (2003), by United States National Weather Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Origins of Japan's Modern Forests: The Case of Akita (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c1985), by Conrad D. Totman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Hawaii)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Facing Hazards and Disasters: Understanding Human Dimensions (2006), by National Research Council Committee on Disaster Research in the Social Sciences (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Snow Avalanche Hazards and Mitigation in the United States (1990), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin: An Evaluation (1995), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Vulnerability and Adaptation to Drought: The Canadian Prairies and South America (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), ed. by Harry P. Diaz, Margot Ann Hurlbert, and Jim W. Warren (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• Vulnerability and Adaptation to Drought: The Canadian Prairies and South America (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c2016), ed. by Harry P. Diaz, Margot Ann Hurlbert, and Jim W. Warren (PDF files with commentary at University of Calgary)

• An Evaluation of the Drop Characteristics and Ground Distribution Patterns of Forest Fire Retardants (Ogden, UT: Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1973), by C. W. George and Aylmer D. Blakely (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early American Hurricanes, 1492-1870 (Boston: American Meteorological Society, c1963), by David M. Ludlum (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hurricane (c1936), by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Chita: A Memory of Last Island, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)

• Hurricane Elena, Gulf Goast, August 29 - September 2, 1985 (1991), by Peter Sparks (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Hurricane Elena, Gulf Goast, August 29 - September 2, 1985 (1991), by Peter Sparks (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Failure of the New Orleans Levee System During Hurricane Katrina (final report, with supplementary documents; 2006), by Team Louisiana, contrib. by Ivor Ll. Van Heerden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 (final report; 2 volumes, with appendices; 2006), by Independent Levee Investigation Team, contrib. by Raymond Bolton Seed
  • PDF files at Berkeley
  • PDF files with commentary at usgs.gov

• Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez (HTML at Michigan)

• Bolstering Critical Infrastructure Resilience After Superstorm Sandy: Lessons for New York and the Nation (Boston: Northeastern University, 2015), by Stephen E. Flynn (multiple formats at Northeastern)

• An Introduction to Regional Economics (fourth edition; c1999), by Edgar M. Hoover and Frank Giarratani (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• The Web Book of Regional Science, ed. by Scott Loveridge and Randall W. Jackson (HTML at Weest Virginia)

• Journal of Social Development in Africa (partial serial archives)

• The Expanding Metropolis: Coping with the Urban Growth of Cairo (1985), ed. by Ahmet Evin (PDF at archnet.org)

• Rural China Takes Off: Institutional Foundations of Economic Reform (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), by Jean C. Oi (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• China's New Socialist Countryside: Modernity Arrives in the Nu River Valley (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, c2014), by Russell Harwood (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Biodiesel in India: Value Chain Organisation and Policy Options For Rural Development (2009), by Tilman Altenburg, Hildegard Dietz, Matthias Hahl, Nikos Nikolidakis, Christina Rosendahl, and Kathrin Seelige (PDF in Germany)

• Journal of the Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science (partial serial archives)

• Bedouins, Wealth, and Change: A Study of Rural Development in the United Arab Emirates and the Sultanate of Oman (c1980), by Rainer Cordes and Fred Scholz (illustrated HTML at UNU)

• Spatial Analysis for Regional Development: A Case Study in the Bicol River Basin of the Philippines (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, c1980), by Dennis A. Rondinelli (HTML at UNU)

• Farmers in the Forest: Economic Development and Marginal Agriculture in Northern Thailand (Honolulu: Pub. for the East-West Center by the University Press of Hawaii, ca. 1978), ed. by Peter Kunstadter, E. C. Chapman, and Sanga Sabhasri (PDF and Epub at Hawaii)

• Socioeconomic Renovation in Viet Nam: The Origin, Evolution, and Impact of Doi Moi, ed. by Peter Boothroyd and Pham Xuan Nam (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• Unleashing Economic Growth: Region-Based Urban Development Strategy for Nepal (Manila: Asian Development Bank, c2010), by KyeongAe Choe and Pushkar K. Pradhan (PDF with commentary at adb.org)

• Technopolis: High-Technology Industry and Regional Development in Southern California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Allen John Scott (HTML at UC Press)

• Spatial Thinking in Planning Practice: An Introduction to GIS (Portland, OR: Portland State University Library, c2014), by Yiping Fang, Vivek Shandas, and Eugenio Arriaga Cordero (PDF at Portland State)

• Optimal Location of Facilities (Wentworth, NH: COMPress, c1979), by Gerard Rushton (PDF at wvu.edu)

• Spotlight on the Future: 20,000,000 Dutchmen in 40,000 Square Kilometers (1972), by Rienk Idenburg (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Journal of Rural and Community Development (2005-) (full serial archives)
• Spore: Bimonthly Bulletin of the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation for Dissemination of Scientific and Technical Information (partial serial archives)

• Planning and Zoning in the United States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1961), by Beverley J. Pooley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Managing Wastewater in Coastal Urban Areas (1993), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Industrial Location (originally published as Scientific Geography #3; c1984), by Michael John Webber (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• The Web Book of Regional Science, ed. by Scott Loveridge and Randall W. Jackson (HTML at Weest Virginia)

• Industrial and Regional Clusters: Concepts and Comparative Applications (second edition; c2000), by Edward M. Bergman and Edward J. Feser (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• Computable General Equilibrium Modeling for Regional Analysis (c1999), by Eliécer E. Vargas, Dean F. Schreiner, Gelson Tembo, and David W. Marcouiller (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• An Introduction to Regional Economics (fourth edition; c1999), by Edgar M. Hoover and Frank Giarratani (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• 21st Century Cooperation: Regional Public Goods, Global Governance, and Sustainable Development (London and New York: Routledge, c2017), ed. by Antoni Estevadeordal and Louis Wolf Goodman (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Regional Input-Output Analysis (originally published as Scientific Geography #6; c1985), by Geoffrey Hewings (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• The Web Book of Regional Science, ed. by Scott Loveridge and Randall W. Jackson (HTML at Weest Virginia)

• Rural Development: Putting the Last First (London et al.: Longman, c1983), by Robert Chambers (PDF at Institute of Development Studies)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.