Reviewing current policies and practices, the book assesses the financial, economic and physical risk of building in hazardous areas, and looks at how societies approach economic development while trying to create a more resilient built environment in spite of the dangers. It examines the vulnerability of economic and social infrastructure to natural hazard events, looks at policies which imperil infrastructure, and proposes new development approaches to be undertaken by sovereign states, international development banks, NGOs, and bilateral aid agencies.
Автор: Bosher Название: Disaster Risk Reduction for the Built Environment ISBN: 1118921496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781118921494 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 8070.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Design for Urban Disaster brings together writings from humanitarian aid workers and built environmental practitioners to address the crucial questions around improving disaster response, building long term resilience and transformation, which explores the fundamental changes that reduce or even prevent future disaster.
Описание: It explores the current application of disaster risk financing solutions by the government, businesses, and individual households; related demand and supply constraints; and opportunities for improvement. The assessment forms one of a series of country diagnostics undertaken using a common methodology to determine the state of the enabling environment for disaster risk financing.
Описание: This publication seeks to strengthen financial preparedness for disasters in Pakistan, focusing on insurance and other risk transfer instruments. It also explores the current application of disaster risk financing solutions by the government, businesses, and individual households; related demand and supply constraints; and opportunities for improvement. This is one of a series of country diagnostics assessments that used a common methodology to determine the state of the enabling environment for disaster risk financing.
Название: Climate-induced disasters in the asia-pacific region ISBN: 1839099879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781839099878 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 16870.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this volume, contributors look at response, recovery and adaptation to climate-induced disasters, in Asia-Pacific - the world`s most disaster-prone region. Chapters examine case studies from Cambodia, Fiji, Solomon Islands and Samoa.
Описание: Strategies and Impact in Developing Countries emphasizes the research of sustainability management and strategies in developing countries providing information to the public, researchers, planners, and stakeholders dealing with sustainability management and strategies, particularly for developing and emerging economic countries.
Автор: Guy, Simon Название: The Sociology of Energy, Buildings and the Environment ISBN: 0415182697 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415182690 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Courtney, Chris (university Of Cambridge) Название: Nature of disaster in china ISBN: 1108405797 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108405799 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese history, environmental history, and disaster studies. It analyses of one of the most lethal floods in history, exploring its environmental, social, and cultural dimensions. It examines the historical development of water problems in Yangzi region, which remain relevant today.
Автор: EVE DARIAN-SMITH Название: Global Burning Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis ISBN: 1503631087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503631083 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 2759.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
How extreme-right antidemocratic governments around the world are prioritizing profits over citizens, stoking catastrophic wildfires, and accelerating global climate change.
Recent years have seen out-of-control wildfires rage across remote Brazilian rainforests, densely populated California coastlines, and major cities in Australia. What connects these separate events is more than immediate devastation and human loss of life. In Global Burning, Eve Darian-Smith contends that using fire as a symbolic and literal thread connecting different places around the world allows us to better understand the parallel, and related, trends of the growth of authoritarian politics and climate crises and their interconnected global consequences.
Darian-Smith looks deeply into each of these three cases of catastrophic wildfires and finds key similarities in all of them. As political leaders and big business work together in the pursuit of profits and power, anti-environmentalism has become an essential political tool enabling the rise of extreme right governments and energizing their populist supporters. These are the governments that deny climate science, reject environmental protection laws, and foster exclusionary worldviews that exacerbate climate injustice.
The fires in Australia, Brazil and the United States demand acknowledgment of the global systems of inequality that undergird them, connecting the political erosion of liberal democracy with the corrosion of the environment. Darian-Smith argues that these wildfires are closely linked through capitalism, colonialism, industrialization, and resource extraction. In thinking through wildfires as environmental and political phenomenon, Global Burning challenges readers to confront the interlocking powers that are ensuring our future ecological collapse.
Автор: Sundberg Adam Название: Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age ISBN: 1108831249 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108831246 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 24818.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Natural disasters repeatedly beset the Dutch Republic during the eighteenth century and coincided with environmental, political, economic, and social changes many characterized as decline. This book explores the connections between disasters and Dutch decline and uncovers lessons these eighteenth-century experiences offer for the present.
Автор: James M Kendra, Tricia Wachtendorf Название: American Dunkirk: The Waterborne Evacuation of Manhattan on 9/11 ISBN: 1439908214 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781439908211 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3129.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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When the terrorist attacks struck New York City on September 11, 2001, boat operators and waterfront workers quickly realized that they had the skills, the equipment, and the opportunity to take definite, immediate action in responding to the most significant destructive event in the United States in decades. For many of them, they were “doing what needed to be done.”
American Dunkirk shows how people, many of whom were volunteers, mobilized rescue efforts in various improvised and spontaneous ways on that fateful date. Disaster experts James Kendra and Tricia Wachtendorf examine the efforts through fieldwork and interviews with many of the participants to understand the evacuation and its larger implications for the entire practice of disaster management.
The authors ultimately explore how people—as individuals, groups, and formal organizations—pull together to respond to and recover from startling, destructive events. American Dunkirk asks, What can these people and lessons teach us about not only surviving but thriving in the face of calamity?
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