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This book examines e-waste management in India. With a focus on the evolution of legal frameworks in India and the world, it presents impacts and outcomes; challenges and opportunities; and management strategies and practices to deal with e-waste.
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The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through... Læs mere
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This book addresses the ways in which the Black Summer megafires influenced the development of climate narratives throughout 2020. It analyses the global pandemic, and its ensuing restrictions, as a countervailing force in the production of such narratives.
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This book explores practices and approaches on pre-disaster prevention and post-disaster reconstruction for vulnerable countries and areas enhancing earthquake disaster resilience.
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This book offers anthropological insights into disasters in Latin America. It fills a gap in the literature by bringing together national and regional perspectives in the study of disasters.
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Highlights the need for a change of paradigm in current flood management practices, one that acknowledges the wide-ranging and interdisciplinary benefits... Læs mere
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This book investigates the ways in which the humanitarian system is secular and responds to religious beliefs and practices when responding to disasters.
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This book presents a broad overview of quantum theory for understanding radar imaging of oil spills. This book presents the principles of... Læs mere
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Using case studies from resource-poor countries severely impacted by natural hazards in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, Denise Thompson develops a disaster risk governance framework that helps to put poorer countries on a path to sustainable disaster risk reduction (DRR).
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In this insightful book, an underwater archaeologist and survival coach shows how understanding the collapse of civilizations can help us prepare for a troubled future.
"The Storm" (1704) is a founding document of modern journalism. It tells of the events of November 1703, when a hurricane struck Britain. It is composed of verbatim eyewitness accounts,... Læs mere
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Deals with the topic of Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR). This book provides an overview of the subject and looks at the role of governments, NGOs,... Læs mere