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This book includes papers, presented at the workshop on "Reduction and Predictability of Natural Disasters" held in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1994, on... Læs mere
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This book explores climate change adaptation using a social resilience approach based on based on primary data from the Sundarbans, a... Læs mere
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This book covers the experience of recent earthquakes in India and what has been learnt in the process of managing the... Læs mere
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This volume contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between migration, vulnerability and resilience associated with flooding across diverse environmental, social and policy contexts in Southeast Asia.
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This book brings together diverse new perspectives on current and emerging themes in space risk, covering both the threats to Earth-based activities arising from space events (natural and man-made), and those inherent in space activity itself.
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Named after Lapindo Brantas, a gas exploration company that was drilling at the eruption site, the Lapindo... Læs mere
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Some urgent new thinking is needed if any lessons are to be learnt from the recent disasters. This book brings together the experience of a number of writers who have worked on, or studied, poverty alleviation programmes in Asia and Africa.
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With frontline reports from around the world World in Crisis explores many of the issues at the heart of contemporary humanitarian aid and highlights what can be done to alleviate human suffering in the future.
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Analyzes the consequences of conflict and competition, especially associated with race, ethnicity and gender in the ways Miami prepared, responded and recovered to Hurricane Andrew.
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Including an extensive range of case-studies covering the most drought-prone and most affected countries, the contributors examine technologies, planning methodologies and mitigation actions from recent drought experiences worldwide.
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Floods presents the most comprehensive collection to date of new research on the topic. An extensive range of case studies covering major floods and prone regions across the globe are included.
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This book concentrates on the social aspects of disaster, focusing on the most expensive disaster to date in US history, the Northridge earthquake of 1994, to examine the facets of vulnerability and post-disaster recovery strategies.