At Risk, Blaikie, Piers

Автор: Scott Gabriel Knowles
Название: The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America
ISBN: 0812222466 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812222463
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, many are asking what, if anything, can be done to prevent large-scale disasters. How is it that we know more about the hazards of modern American life than ever before, yet the nation faces ever-increasing losses from such events? History shows that disasters are not simply random acts. Where is the logic in creating an elaborate set of fire codes for buildings, and then allowing structures like the Twin Towers—tall, impressive, and risky—to go up as design experiments? Why prepare for terrorist attacks above all else when floods, fires, and earthquakes pose far more consistent threats to American life and prosperity?
The Disaster Experts takes on these questions, offering historical context for understanding who the experts are that influence these decisions, how they became powerful, and why they are only slightly closer today than a decade ago to protecting the public from disasters. Tracing the intertwined development of disaster expertise, public policy, and urbanization over the past century, historian Scott Gabriel Knowles tells the fascinating story of how this diverse collection of professionals—insurance inspectors, engineers, scientists, journalists, public officials, civil defense planners, and emergency managers—emerged as the authorities on risk and disaster and, in the process, shaped modern America.

Название: Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future
ISBN: 9290929499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789290929499
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 25870.00 T
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Описание: This report focuses on the steps required to ensure that investment in disaster resilience happens and that it occurs as an integral, systematic part of development.

Автор: Ajay Sharma
Название: Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction
ISBN: 1681171317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681171319
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Цена: 230210.00 T
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Описание: This book discussed on mountain regions occupy approximately one fifth of the Earths land surface and cover 54 % of Asias land mass. Mountain ranges create diverse ecosystems, sanctuaries for plant and animal species, and shelter for 10 % of the worlds population. Mountains are the sources of 80 % of the Earths surface water, important not only for mountain communities but also for billions of people living in the plains. Mountains trap moisture from air masses, which is precipitated in the form of snow that melts in spring and summer, flows to the plains, and becomes a lifeline for agriculture and industrial activities. With such multifunctionality, mountains serve not only as a source of ecological and food security for billions of people, but also act as buffers against natural hazards. However, mountains are very sensitive to environmental change and are a barometer for climate change. A change in temperature can disrupt a mountain system in the form of melting glaciers, soil erosion, landslides, rockfalls, floods, and avalanches.

Автор: Chad M. Briggs, Miriam Matejova
Название: Disaster Security: Using Intelligence and Military Planning for Energy and Environmental Risks
ISBN: 1108459374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108459372
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Цена: 38010.00 T
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Описание: This book details intelligence and military planning methods for anticipating environmental and security-related disasters. It offers an inside view of planning processes in the US government using scenarios and simulations. With a focus on innovative solutions, it is invaluable for a broad audience of practitioners, policymakers, and scholars.

Автор: Chan Emily Ying Yang
Название: Building Bottom-up Health and Disaster Risk Reduction Progra
ISBN: 0198807171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198807179
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Цена: 45930.00 T
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Описание: Introductory to intermediate level textbook and reference book for healthcare professionals, fieldworkers, volunteers and students who are interested in promoting health and emergency and disaster risk reduction in Asia.

Автор: Kyoji Sassa; Hiroshi. Fukuoka; Fawu Wang; Gonghui
Название: Landslides
ISBN: 3642066828 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642066825
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 167660.00 T
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Описание: Prfoceedings of the First General Assembly of the International Consortium on Landslides

Автор: Rajib Shaw; Yukihiko Oikawa
Название: Education for Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction
ISBN: 4431563741 ISBN-13(EAN): 9784431563747
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 87060.00 T
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Описание: Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Disaster Risk Reduction Education (DRRE) have overlapping areas of concern focusing on strengthening the link to local communities.

Автор: Juha I. Uitto; Rajib Shaw
Название: Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction
ISBN: 4431562508 ISBN-13(EAN): 9784431562504
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 95770.00 T
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Описание: This book focuses on exploring the linkages between natural disasters and sustainable development at the global, regional, and national levels. Similarly, slow onset disasters-often associated with global climate change-pose threats to development, livelihoods, food security, and long-term sustainable development.

Автор: Ashraf Dewan
Название: Floods in a Megacity
ISBN: 9400794576 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400794573
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 104480.00 T
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Описание: This book offers a new approach to mapping populations, infrastructures and communities at risk, using remote sensing, GIS and census data to better grasp flood vulnerability in megacities of developing countries. Includes a case study of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Автор: Michelle Schneuwly-Bollschweiler; Markus Stoffel;
Название: Dating Torrential Processes on Fans and Cones
ISBN: 9400799861 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789400799868
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 139310.00 T
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Описание: Water-related processes represent major geomorphic hazards in most mountain areas of the world. This book reviews methods for the dating of historical events and examines the impact of past and potential future climate change on torrential processes.

Автор: Ansar Khan; Soumendu Chatterjee
Название: Coastal Risk Assessment
ISBN: 3319699911 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319699912
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 46570.00 T
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Описание: As such, geoscientists are called upon to analyze the coastal hazards by anticipating the changes in and impacts of extreme weather hazards on the Bay of Bengal coasts as a result of global climate change and local sea-level change.

Автор: Rajib Shaw
Название: Tohoku Recovery
ISBN: 4431551352 ISBN-13(EAN): 9784431551355
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 121110.00 T
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Описание: This book attempts to draw lessons from different issues and sectors such as policy perspectives (both national and local), the role of international NGOs, fishing industries and other livelihoods, temporary housing, health, heritage, and lesson sharing.