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The book systematically deals with the core aspects of urban resilience: systems, management issues and populations.The taxonomy can be broken down into threats, systems, resilience cycles and recovery types in the context of urban resilience.
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This book explores the nexus among food, energy and water in peri-urban areas, demonstrating how relevant this nexus is for environmental sustainability.
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This pioneering book addresses the entirety of river flooding issues in the Upper Vistula Basin, where considerable flood generation potential exists. Access to... Læs mere
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With increased climate variability, aggravated natural hazards in the form of extreme events are affecting the lives and livelihoods of many people.
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This book offers a systematic, empirical examination of the concepts of disasters and sustainable economic development applied to many cases around the world.
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This volume discusses the general physics of debris flows and various approaches to modeling - including the SEGMENT-Landslide approach – as well as the pros and cons of these approaches and how other approaches are sub-sets of the SEGMENT-Landslide approach.
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This book introduces a methodology for solving the seismic inverse problem using purely numerical solutions built on 3D wave equations and... Læs mere
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This book provides a critical perspective on people's response to disasters in the Philippines. It draws upon an array of case studies to discuss people's vulnerability, capacities and resilience in facing a wide range of different hazards.
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In China’s 4,000-year-long history and modern development, natural disaster management has been about... Læs mere
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The Horn of Africa has suffered repeated disasters: wars, drought, famine, mass refugee movements and environmental decline.