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This book draws upon case studies and practices of different types of DRR involvement by the private sector from all over the world. The book comprises two parts, Part I: Overview and Regional Cases; and Part II: Country Cases. The regional cases include those from...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-02-13
Collection :
Disaster Risk Reduction
Format(s) : ePub
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Introduction to International Disaster Management, Third Edition, continues to serve as the leading comprehensive overview of global emergency management. This edition provides practitioners and students alike with a comprehensive understanding of the disaster...
Editeur : Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution : 2015-01-25
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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This book is a pioneering regional work and provides a balanced approach of theory and practice in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Pakistan. The book analytically discusses the status of DRR and draws examples and lessons from national and community-level programs and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-01-20
Collection :
Disaster Risk Reduction
Format(s) : ePub
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This Atlas presents records of climatic variability and change in Europe starting before 1901 and focuses especially on trends of extreme temperatures and precipitation. The authors have used software developed within EMULATE (European and North Atlantic daily to...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-12-04
Format(s) : ePub
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Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard...
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 2014-11-21
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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This book is a compilation of papers contributed by researchers and scientists from SAARC nations and deals with high-impact weather conditions, their prediction and potential consequences for populations in the SAARC region. There have been a number of recent advances...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-11-19
Format(s) : ePub
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The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable to a variety of natural and manmade hazards. This edited book productively brings together scholars and senior public officials having direct experience in dealing with or researching on recent major natural...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-11-18
Collection :
Disaster Risk Reduction
Format(s) : ePub
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Edited by two experts in the area, Geoethics: Ethical Challenges and Case Studies in Earth Sciences addresses a range of topics surrounding the concept of ethics in geoscience, making it an important reference for any Earth scientist with a growing concern for...
Editeur : Elsevier
Parution : 2014-11-13
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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Sea and Ocean Hazards, Risks and Disasters provides a scientific approach to those hazards and disasters related to the Earth's coasts and oceans. This is the first book to integrate scientific, social, and economic issues related to disasters such as hazard...
Editeur : Elsevier
Parution : 2014-11-11
Format(s) : PDF, epub sans DRM
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In the present authors attempted to have a clear insight into the interworking of geotectonic, geomorphic, hydrologic and anthropogenic factors leading to landslide in the Shiv khola Watershed, the most worst affected region of Darjiling Himalaya. This book includes the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-11-07
Collection :
Springer Natural Hazards
Format(s) : ePub
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Learning from the Impacts of Superstorm Sandy summarizes first results from studies of Superstorm Sandy, including: tide gauge measurements of storm surge, stable isotope variation in precipitation, analysis of the effect of beach nourishment among other factors on...
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 2014-10-31
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a...
Editeur : Elsevier
Parution : 2014-10-29
Format(s) : PDF, epub sans DRM
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This monograph focuses on a variety of topics related to reconstruction and restoration in post-tsunami conditions. Aspects such as coastal engineering, early warning systems and technological approaches, urban planning and settlements relocation, socio-economic...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-10-29
Collection :
Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
Format(s) : ePub
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Hydro-Meteorological Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major atmospheric disasters that have had and continue to have major implications for many of the world's people, such as floods and droughts. . This volume takes a geoscientific approach...
Editeur : Elsevier
Parution : 2014-10-28
Format(s) : PDF, epub sans DRM
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Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in glacier surges and melting, ice shelf collapses, paleo-climate reconstruction, sea level rise, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness, and...
Editeur : Academic Press
Parution : 2014-10-27
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Landslides are the most costly geo-hazard in the world, and they're often the cause or the result of other hazards and disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires, and volcanic eruptions. Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters makes a close and detailed...
Editeur : Elsevier
Parution : 2014-10-23
Format(s) : PDF, epub sans DRM
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More than 90% of wildfires are caused by human activity, but other causes include lighting, drought, wind and changing weather conditions, underground coal fires, and even volcanic activity. Wildfire Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, one of nine volumes in the Elsevier...
Editeur : Elsevier
Parution : 2014-10-20
Format(s) : PDF, epub sans DRM
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The book is the outcome of a unique venture: a team of Chinese geographers and a team of American geographers collaborated on a new Comparative Geography of China and the United States.The book meets a high demand for comparative information about China and the United...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-07-17
Collection :
GeoJournal Library
Format(s) : ePub
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This book presents the latest research developments in geoinformation science, which includes all the sub-disciplines of the field, such as: geomatic engineering, GIS, remote sensing, digital photogrammetry, digital cartography, etc.
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2014-07-08
Collection :
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
Format(s) : ePub
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Assessment of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards covers the vulnerability of human and environmental systems to climate change and eight natural hazards: earthquakes, floods, landslides, avalanches, forest fires, drought, coastal erosion, and heat waves.
This book is an...
Editeur : Elsevier Science
Parution : 2014-06-12
Format(s) : epub sans DRM
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