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224 produkter
Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia
Av Rajib Shaw, Atta-ur-Rahman m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
713 kr
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Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia presents the latest information on the intensity and frequency of disasters. Specifically, the fact that, in urban areas, more than 50% of the world's population is living on just 2% of the land surface, with most of these cities located in Asia and developing …
Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia
Av Gulsan Ara Parvin, Akhilesh Surjan m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
899 kr
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Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia presents the latest information on the intensity and frequency of disasters. Specifically, the fact that, in urban areas, more than 50% of the world''s population is living on just 2% of the land surface, with most of these cities located in Asia and …
Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia
Potentials and Challenges
Av Rajib Shaw, Koichi Shiwaku m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
1020 kr
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Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia: Potentials and Challenges provides both a local and global perspective on how to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Topics demonstrate the advancement of scientific research as it applies to early warning systems, …
Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia
Potentials and Challenges
Av Takako Izumi, Koichi Shiwaku m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
1416 kr
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Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia: Potentials and Challenges provides both a local and global perspective on how to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Topics demonstrate the advancement of scientific research as it applies to early warning systems, …
Disaster Resilience and Sustainability
Adaptation for Sustainable Development
Av Indrajit Pal, Rajib Shaw m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
1265 kr
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Disasters undermine societal well-being, causing loss of lives and damage to social and economic infrastructures. Disaster resilience is central to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, especially in regions where extreme inequality combines with the increasing frequency and intensity …
Disaster Resilience and Sustainability
Adaptation for Sustainable Development
Av Indrajit Pal, Rajib Shaw m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
1759 kr
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Disasters undermine societal well-being, causing loss of lives and damage to social and economic infrastructures. Disaster resilience is central to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, especially in regions where extreme inequality combines with the increasing frequency and intensity …
Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building
Cross Cutting Issues
Häftad, 2023
1637 kr
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Multi-hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building: Cross Cutting Issues presents multi-disciplinary issues facing disaster risk reduction and sustainable development, focusing on various dimensions of existing and future risk scenarios and highlighting concerted efforts of scientific communities …
Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building
Cross Cutting Issues
E-bok, 2023
2329 kr
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Multi-hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building: Cross Cutting Issues presents multi-disciplinary issues facing disaster risk reduction and sustainable development, focusing on various dimensions of existing and future risk scenarios and highlighting concerted efforts of scientific communities …
Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience
COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World
Häftad, 2022
1238 kr
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Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience: COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World examines the pandemic's global impacts on public health, economies, society and labor. The book shows how COVID-19 intensified natural and anthropogenic hazards and destroyed years of communities, governments and …
Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience
COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World
E-bok, 2022
1759 kr
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Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience: COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World examines the pandemic''s global impacts on public health, economies, society and labor. The book shows how COVID-19 intensified natural and anthropogenic hazards and destroyed years of communities, governments …
Homelessness to Hope
Research, Policy and Global Perspectives
Av Uday Chatterjee, Rajib Shaw m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1483 kr
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Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Practices on Global Perspectives brings together stories, observations and critical appraisals that have emerged out of interdisciplinary studies spanning the global North and South. It explores how diverse accounts on homelessness and homeless people are …
Homelessness to Hope
Research, Policy and Global Perspectives
Av Raktima Ghosh, Jenia Mukherjee m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
2042 kr
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Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Practices on Global Perspectives brings together stories, observations and critical appraisals that have emerged out of the interdisciplinary studies spanning across the global North and South. It explores how diverse accounts on homelessness and homeless …
Climate Change, Community Response and Resilience
Insight for Socio-Ecological Sustainability
Av Uday Chatterjee, Rajib Shaw m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
1483 kr
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Climate Change, Community Response, and Resilience: Insight for Socio-Ecological Sustainability, Volume Six presents a fundamental theoretical framework for understanding how community resilience and risk assessment affect climate change adaptation behavior. This framework is based on a 26-chapter …
Climate Change, Community Response and Resilience
Insight for Socio-Ecological Sustainability
Av Soumita Banerjee, Martiwi Diah Setiawati m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
2109 kr
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Climate Change, Community Response, and Resilience: Insight for Socio-Ecological Sustainability, Volume Six presents a fundamental theoretical framework for understanding how community resilience and risk assessment affect climate change adaptation behavior. This framework is based on a 26-chapter …
Integrated Lagoon Fisheries Management
Resource Dynamics and Adaptation
Av Shimpei Iwasaki, Rajib Shaw
Inbunden, 2010
1210 kr
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Lagoons are characterized by an essential quality of uncertainty for use in resource management: these are physically vulnerable to various influences from not only the environment but also the adjacent marine and terrestrial areas. In the areas which are shallower and where less water is …
Integrated Lagoon Fisheries Management
Resource Dynamics and Adaptation
Av Rajib Shaw, Shimpei Iwasaki
E-bok, 2010
1268 kr
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Lagoons are characterized by an essential quality of uncertainty for use in resource management: these are physically vulnerable to various influences from not only the environment but also the adjacent marine and terrestrial areas. In the areas which are shallower and where less water is …
Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities
Inbunden, 2011
1364 kr
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One of the emerging reasons for the current trend of increasing impacts of disasters is the unpredictability of natural hazard events coupled with the tendency of human settlements to move to vulnerable locations including coastal areas in search of economic gains. Urban areas are most affected due …
Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities
E-bok, 2011
1436 kr
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One of the emerging reasons for the current trend of increasing impacts of disasters is the unpredictability of natural hazard events coupled with the tendency of human settlements to move to vulnerable locations including coastal areas in search of economic gains. Urban areas are most affected due …
Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
An Asian Perspective
Av Rajib Shaw, Juan Pulhin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1671 kr
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Following on from Volume 4 in this series, which looked at issues and challenges with regard to Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Volume 5 has a specific focus on Asia. Arguably among the regions of the world most vulnerable to climate change, Asia has different …
Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
An Asian Perspective
Av Joy Pereira, Juan Pulhin m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
1757 kr
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Following on from Volume 4 in this series, which looked at issues and challenges with regard to Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Volume 5 has a specific focus on Asia. Arguably among the regions of the world most vulnerable to climate change, Asia has different …
Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
Issues and Challenges
Av Rajib Shaw, Juan Pulhin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
1587 kr
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The importance of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is increasing due, in part, to recent major disasters throughout the world. CCA and DRR are closely associated and there has been significant awareness at global and national levels to make collective focus on CCA …
Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
Issues and Challenges
Av Joy Pereira, Juan Pulhin m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
1665 kr
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The importance of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is increasing due, in part, to recent major disasters throughout the world. CCA and DRR are closely associated and there has been significant awareness at global and national levels to make collective focus on CCA …
Disaster Education
Av Rajib Shaw, Koichi Shiwaku m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1280 kr
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Education is the key to risk reduction, be it environmental management or disaster risk reduction, and is a process which needs to be embedded at different levels of management and practices to collectively reduce the risk. While school education forms the foundations of the knowledge cycle, for …
Disaster Education
Av Yukiko Takeuchi, Koichi Shiwaku m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
1345 kr
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Education is the key to risk reduction, be it environmental management or disaster risk reduction, and is a process which needs to be embedded at different levels of management and practices to collectively reduce the risk. While school education forms the foundations of the knowledge cycle, for …
Droughts in Asian Monsoon Region
Av Rajib Shaw, Huy Nguyen
Inbunden, 2011
1280 kr
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Drought is a slow-onset disaster. The impacts are invisible and are often reflected as a complex socio-economic phenomenon. Due to changes in the climatic conditions droughts are increasingly occurring in non-traditional drought prone areas. The Asian monsoon region is one of these areas where …
Droughts in Asian Monsoon Region
Av Huy Nguyen, Rajib Shaw
E-bok, 2011
1316 kr
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Drought is a slow-onset disaster. The impacts are invisible and are often reflected as a complex socio-economic phenomenon. Due to changes in the climatic conditions droughts are increasingly occurring in non-traditional drought prone areas. The Asian monsoon region is one of these areas where …
Environment Disaster Linkages
Av Rajib Shaw, Phong Tran
Inbunden, 2012
1601 kr
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Disaster management has historically focused on reactive approaches, but a shift to proactive approaches is crucial for addressing concerns raised by the changing environment. A prime reason for the absence of proactive approaches in disaster/hazard management is the uncertainty or ambiguity …
Environment Disaster Linkages
Av Phong Tran, Rajib Shaw
E-bok, 2012
1742 kr
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Disaster management has historically focused on reactive approaches, but a shift to proactive approaches is crucial for addressing concerns raised by the changing environment. A prime reason for the absence of proactive approaches in disaster/hazard management is the uncertainty or ambiguity …
Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction
Av Rajib Shaw
Inbunden, 2012
1486 kr
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Communities are at the core of disaster risk reduction (DRR), and community based approaches are getting increasing focus in national DRR plans. In the case of past disasters, communities were always the first responders, and took leading roles in the post disaster recovery. The roles of …
Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction
Av Rajib Shaw
E-bok, 2012
1849 kr
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Communities are at the core of disaster risk reduction (DRR), and community based approaches are getting increasing focus in national DRR plans. In the case of past disasters, communities were always the first responders, and took leading roles in the post disaster recovery. The roles of …