Social impact of disasters Books
Simon & Schuster The Deluge
Book SynopsisA New York Times Notable Book ?This book is, simply put, a modern classic. If you read it, you''ll never forget it. Prophetic, terrifying, uplifting.? ?Stephen King From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity.In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013, Tony Pietrus, a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane, receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters?a broken drug addict, a star advertising strategist, a neurodivergent mathematician, a cunning eco-terrorist, an actor turned religious zealot, and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris, who, in the mountains of Wyoming, begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles, the Midwest to Washington, DC, their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage, galvanize a nation, fall to their own fear, and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax, each faces a reckoning: what will they sacrifice to salvage humanity?s last chance at a future? A singular achievement, The Deluge is a once-in-a-generation novel that meets the moment as few works of art ever have.
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Atria Books The 2084 Report: A Novel of the Great Warming
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Scribner Book Company The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the
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Scribner Book Company Stories from Quarantine
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Simon & Schuster Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and
Book Synopsis“This startling, vital book deserves our attention.” —San Francisco Chronicle For fans of War Dogs and Bad Blood, an explosive look inside the rush to profit from the COVID-19 pandemic, from the award-winning ProPublica reporter who saw it firsthand.The United States federal government spent over $10 billion on medical protective wear and emergency supplies, yet as COVID-19 swept the nation, life-saving equipment such as masks, gloves, and ventilators was nearly impossible to find. In this brilliant nonfiction thriller, called “revelatory” by The Washington Post, award-winning investigative reporter J. David McSwane takes us behind the scenes to reveal how traders, contractors, and healthcare companies used one of the darkest moments in American history to fill their pockets. Determined to uncover how this was possible, he spent over a year on private jets and in secret warehouses, traveling from California to Chicago to Washington, DC, to interview both the most treacherous of profiteers and the victims of their crimes. Pandemic, Inc. is the story of the fraudster who signed a multi-million-dollar contract with the government to provide lifesaving PPE, and yet never came up with a single mask. The Navy admiral at the helm of the national hunt for additional medical resources. The Department of Health whistleblower who championed masks early on and was silenced by the government and conservative media. And the politician who callously slashed federal emergency funding and gutted the federal PPE stockpile. Winner of the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, McSwane connects the dots between backdoor deals and the spoils systems to provide the definitive account of how this pandemic was so catastrophically mishandled. Shocking and monumental, Pandemic, Inc. exposes a system that is both deeply rigged, and singularly American.Trade Review"Revelatory... Laugh-out-loud funny. If the whole story weren’t so tragically and disgustingly real, “Pandemic Inc.” could be mistaken as the script for a “Saturday Night Live” skit. But embedded in the mirth is a wholesale indictment of this toxic brew of unfettered capitalism and greed." —The Washington Post"A distressing and important book" —Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC"[Pandemic Inc.] isn’t so much a story about a virus as a tale about America" —The Philadelphia Inquirer "A deep dive...there are lessons to learn from this." —The Daily Beast"A justifiably indignant investigation into the financial malfeasance and outright swindling that accompanied the Trump administration’s botched handing of the Covid-19 pandemic... Revealing one outrage after another, McSwane's book should prompt congressional review and systemic reform." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"McSwane's unravelling of corporate, government, and private shenanigans during the COVID-19 crisis packs a tremendous wallop because the pandemic has impacted everyone to various degrees." —Booklist (starred review)"[An] eye-opening investigation...Lucid analysis and dogged reporting make this a startling exposé of how unfettered capitalism, startup culture, and government corruption exacerbated the worst effects of the pandemic." —Publishers Weekly"Pandemic, Inc. is a triumph of investigative reporting and a rollercoaster of a story. With blunt prose and a novelist's eye, McSwane takes readers inside private jets and dirty warehouses to expose all manner of crazy and criminal enterprise— and the result is stranger than fiction." —Ken Armstrong, Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter and coauthor of Unbelievable"Pandemic, Inc. is a witty, angry propulsive narrative, and a profound exercise in accountability. Its lessons—how and why fraud invaded so many corners of America's crisis response—are critical to understanding why the richest nation on earth suffered so grievously in this plague. I couldn't put it down." —Diana B. Henriques, New York Times bestselling author of The Wizard of Lies“McSwane’s book is two vital stories of the global pandemic, masterfully woven together: An infuriating account of how ill-prepared the Trump Administration was and the often-hilarious romp into the strange world of grifters and opportunists who tried to seize advantage.” —Jesse Eisinger, Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter and author of The Chickenshit Club"J. David McSwane's relentless reporting could have produced a jaw-dropping work of history. Instead, the merciless fraud he exposes ensured continuing losses. Corruption spread as swiftly as the virus, and we're in McSwane's debt for exposing a horrific waste of money—and lives." —Charlotte Bismuth, author of Bad Medicine and former prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney's office
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Scribner Book Company The High House
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Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster Delphi
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Brepols N.V. Experiencing Famine in Fourteenth-Century Britain
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Défis linguistiques et culturels pour la gestion
Book SynopsisInondations, pandémies, pollution, les catastrophes naturelles et sanitaires récentes ont fait croître un sentiment d'insécurité et des attentes importantes de la population à l'égard des experts et des professionnels du risque. Dans les régions transfrontalières la coopération internationale semble une évidence. Celle-ci représente cependant un véritable défi . Elle se heurte aux obstacles de la langue, bien sûr, mais aussi aux modes d'organisation différents, aux approches et aux représentations culturelles qui déterminent des pratiques qu'il convient d'harmoniser.L'ouvrage rassemble les contributions de chercheurs et de praticiens des domaines concernés justice, médecine, incendie, police, etc. et de spécialistes de la communication sur le risque. Elles nous livrent des informations précieuses pour comprendre la réalité du défi et les perspectives pour y répondre.Cet ouvrage s'adresse aussi bien aux professionnels de la gestion des risques, chercheurs, responsables politiques qu'aux citoyens curieux de découvrir l'actualité et le futur du traitement des risques en contexte international.
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften The Intercultural Approach to Covid 19
Book SynopsisThis book is divided into 5 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of the management of this unprecedented health crisis. The first chapter is devoted to issues of respect for constitutional law and fundamental freedoms in the countries examined focusing on emergency measures. The second chapter deals with Covid management in a comparative study, taking into account intercultural aspects and influences in several areas of economic and social life. The third chapter looks at the secondary effects of pandemic protection measures. These effects have not always been sufficiently taken into account in government decisions. It is only by looking back that we can analyse these consequences. Life during the pandemic was largely reduced to digital life. To some extent, this digitisation has allowed activities to continue, but it has not been without risk. Chapter 4 looks at data protection during this period, the role of the media and the reorganisation of working and industrial relationships. Finally, the last chapter deals with health issues, which were at the heart of Covid's management.Table of ContentsEpidemic and Emergency Legislation Management of Covid Covid 19 and Economic and Social Law Health, end of Life and Covid-19 Hommage à Pierre Rosario Domingue Sabir Kadel
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Creating Resilient Futures: Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas
Book SynopsisThis open access edited volume critically examines a coherence building opportunity between Climate Change Adaptation, the Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction agendas through presenting best practice approaches, and supporting Irish and international case studies. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted existing global inequalities and demonstrated the scope and scale of cascading socio-ecological impacts. The impacts of climate change on our global communities will likely dwarf the disruption brought on by the pandemic, and moreover, these impacts will be more diffuse and pervasive over a longer timeframe. This edited volume considers opportunities to address global challenges in the context of developing resilience as an integrated development continuum instead of through independent and siloed agendas.Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction: Editorial teamChapter Two: Integration: building capacity and making connections Stephen Flood, MaREI Centre, UCC, Yairen Jerez Columbié, MaREI Centre, UCC Stephen.flood@ucc.ieChapters Three to ThirteenThe eleven case-study chapters will provide a range of examples that underpin the aims and objectives of the book. These chapters take an international perspective with examples from Europe, Australasia, the Caribbean, and Africa. Chapter Three: Bridging the gap between Climate Change Risk Assessment and Climate Change Adaptation ActionShona Koren Paterson, Brunel University London, , Kristen Guida, London Climate Change Partnership, Stephen Flood, MaREI Centre, University College Cork, and Barry O’Dwyer, MaREI Centre, University College Cork shonakoren.paterson@brunel.ac.ukChapter Four: Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Risk AssessmentParaic Ryan, Department of Civil Engineering, University College Cork and Ellen O’Connor, Department of Economics, University College Cork paraic.ryan@ucc.ieChapter Five: Mainstreaming CCA into Planning and development Jennie Sandstrom, Mid Sweden University and Stephen Flood, MaREI Centre, University College Cork jennie.sandstrom@miun.seChapter Six: Linking disaster risk reduction with sustainable development and climate change adaptation: a legal perspectiveDug Cubie, School of Law, University College Cork and Tommaso Natoli, School of Law, University College Cork Chapter Seven: Making Connections through IndicatorsMartin Le Tissier, MaREI Centre, University College CorkChapter Eight: SDGs and CCA in the Caribbean Yairen Jerez Columbié, MaREI Centre, University College CorkChapter Nine: Resilience and CCA in New ZealandNicholas Cradock-Henry, Landcare Research Chapter Ten: SDGs integration into National Science SystemsPeter Edwards, Landcare Research, Karen Fisher, University of Auckland Chapter Eleven: Ecosystem Based Management for the Conservation and sustainable use of the oceansTim O’Higgins, MaREI Centre, University College Cork Chapter Twelve: Community Resilience: old traits and the pace of changeGlen Smith, MaREI Centre, University College Cork Chapter Thirteen: Merle Sowman, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town Chapter Fourteen: Conclusions: Refining of both theoretical reflections and methodologiesStephen Flood, MaREI Centre, UCC and Editorial team
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Crisis Governance in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Book SynopsisThis comparative study at hand has been the result of a two-year research project on floods in 2014 in the Western Balkans engaging eight research teams from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia. Representing quite different disciplines, the authors of this volume have analysed diverse aspects of the crisis governance and its ramifications. This publication’s goals are twofold. Firstly, it pins down the characteristics of the crisis responses during the floods of 2014 in three affected countries, preconditioned by the existing institutions, crisis leadership, the role of media and the social capital as well as the foreign financial aid. On the other hand, through the lenses of the crisis governance we conclude on the state capacities and the nature of political regime of the cases under study. The flood megacrisis did not constitute a "window of opportunity" for individual or institutional learning. On the contrary, it did unveil some authoritarian tendencies in Serbia and Bosnia, and thus stalled the hitherto ongoing democratization process.Table of ContentsVedran Džihić/Magdalena Solska: The Floods of 2014: Crisis Governance, State Capacities and Political Regimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia – Damir Kapidžić/Dušan Pavlović/Gordan Bosanac: Crisis Response in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia – Marko Vujačić: Leadership in Megacrisis: The Case of the 2014 Floods in Serbia – Snježana Milivojević/Bojana Barlovac: Media and Floods under Crisis in Serbia – Danijela Majstorović/Zoran Vučkovac: Managing Floods, Challenging Ethnopolitics in Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Example of the Town of Doboj – Adnan Efendić: The Role of Economic and Social Capital during the Floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Iva Kornfein Groš: International Financial Aid in the Postcrisis Phase in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia – Sanneke Kuipers: Crisis Leadership in Governing Floods: Lessons from the Western Balkans – Appendix 1: Damir Kapidžić/Dušan Pavlović/Gordan Bosanac: Mapping an Unfolding Crisis: Key Developments during the Floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia – Appendix 2: Dušan Pavlović/Damir Kapidžić/Gordan Bosanac: Flood Protection Systems in the Precrisis Phase: The Cases of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Family, Separation and Migration: An
Book SynopsisFamilies are actors and drivers in migration and refugee crises. However, the current protection frameworks privilege the individual over the family unit. Consequently, the stories of families in migration have remained under-researched and their challenges under-addressed. This volume explores the interplay between family, separation, and migration in the Middle East, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and in the context of the 2015 global refugee crisis. Guiding it are two questions: How do family, migration, and separation play out across geographical, political, and historical contexts? And what are the gaps in the protection of migrants and their families? Thirteen authors – academics and practitioners – discuss the international protection for refugees, migration governance, child mobility, disability and immigration, human trafficking, and dilemmas in refugee reporting.The book proposes a paradigm shift in the way we cater to the needs and aspirations of families on the move. Its authors offer evidence-based solutions that cut across polarized discussions on migration and refugees. As such, the volume is aimed at researchers, students, policymakers, and experts working in international relations, migration, human rights, and refugee protection. Table of ContentsRear Admiral Nicola Carlone: Foreword – Oreste Foppiani/Oana A. Scarlatescu: Introduction – Edo Korljan: Family in Europe: An Evolving Concept? – Betty Sacco German: The Italian-Chinese Community in Prato: Insideness, Outsideness, and Cultural Complexes – Robin Ramcharan: International Migration in Southeast Asia: Protection Norms and Challenges Facing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (A.S.E.A.N.) – Elisa Fornalé: Regional Migration Governance and Social Protection of Migrant Workers – Giji Gya: Taking Care of Countering the Business of Trafficking in Human Beings– Mirela Shuteriqi: Unaccompanied and on the Move: Risks and Opportunities for Migrant Children – Oana A. Scarlatescu: Unaccompanied Migrant Minors in the European Union (E.U.): Children or Illegal Migrants? A Comparative Analysis of Belgium, the United Kingdom (UK), and Romania – Warren Rosenblum: Bodies Wanted and Unwanted: The History of Immigration and Disability – Cecilie Hellestveit: Exodus in the Middle East & the International Law Related to Internal Conflict – Sumbul Rizvi: Contemporary Challenges of Refugee Protection and Mixed Migration – Sabine Nasser: The Psychological Effects and Traumas of Syrian Women and Children – Pamela Ballinger: Wartime Evacuations and the Restoration of Italian Families after 1945: A Critical Prehistory for Family Reunification Policy? – Gunilla von Hall: The War Correspondent’s View: Dilemmas in Reporting in Refugees – Oreste Foppiani/Oana A. Scarlatescu: Conclusion
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Family, Separation and Migration: An
Book SynopsisFamilies are actors and drivers in migration and refugee crises. However, the current protection frameworks privilege the individual over the family unit. Consequently, the stories of families in migration have remained under-researched and their challenges under-addressed. This volume explores the interplay between family, separation, and migration in the Middle East, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and in the context of the 2015 global refugee crisis. Guiding it are two questions: How do family, migration, and separation play out across geographical, political, and historical contexts? And what are the gaps in the protection of migrants and their families? Thirteen authors – academics and practitioners – discuss the international protection for refugees, migration governance, child mobility, disability and immigration, human trafficking, and dilemmas in refugee reporting. The book proposes a paradigm shift in the way we cater to the needs and aspirations of families on the move. Its authors offer evidence-based solutions that cut across polarized discussions on migration and refugees. As such, the volume is aimed at researchers, students, policymakers, and experts working in international relations, migration, human rights, and refugee protection.Table of ContentsForeword by Rear Admiral Nicola Carlone, Italian Coast Guard – Acknowledgments – Introduction – Edo Korljan: Family in Europe: An Evolving Concept? – Betty Sacco German: The Italian-Chinese Community in Prato: Insideness, Outsideness, and Cultural Complexes – Robin Ramcharan: International Migration in Southeast Asia: Protection Norms and Challenges Facing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (A.S.E.A.N.) – Elisa Fornalé: Regional Migration Governance and Social Protection of Migrant Workers – Giji Gya: Taking Care of Countering the Business of Trafficking in Human Beings – Mirela Shuteriqi: Unaccompanied and on the Move: Risks and Opportunities for Migrant Children – Oana A. Scarlatescu: Unaccompanied Migrant Minors in the European Union: Children or Irregular Migrants? A Comparative Analysis of Belgium, Romania, and the United Kingdom – Warren Rosenblum: A Universal Madness: Disability and Immigration Policy in Modern History – Cecilie Hellestveit: The Syrian Exodus and the International Law of Internal Conflict-Induced Displacement – Sumbul Rizvi: A Snapshot of Global Challenges to Refugee Protection in 2014–2015: Regional Trends and Protection at Sea – Sabine Nasser: The Psychosocial Effects on and Traumas of Syrian Women and Children Refugees – Pamela Ballinger: Wartime Evacuations and the Restoration of Italian Families after 1945: A Critical Prehistory for Family Reunification Policy? – Gunilla von Hall: Dilemmas in Refugee and Migration Reporting – Conclusion – Abstracts and Keywords – Contributors – Index.
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De Gruyter Viral Lobbying: Strategies, Access and Influence
Book SynopsisPandemic policies have been the focus of fierce lobbying competition by different social and economic interests. In Viral Lobbying a team of expert authors from across the social and natural sciences analyse patterns in and implications of this ‘viral lobbying’. Based on elite surveys and focus group interviews with selected groups, the book provides new evidence on the lobbying strategies used during the COVID 19 pandemic, as well as the resulting access to and lobbying influence on public policy. The empirical analyses reach across eight European countries (Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom), as well as the EU-level. In particular, the book draws on responses from approximately 1,600 interest organisations in two waves of a cross-country survey (in 2020 and 2021, respectively). This quantitative data is supplemented by qualitative evidence from a series of 12 focus groups with organised interests in Ireland, Denmark and the Netherlands conducted in spring 2021.
£25.65
De Gruyter Environmental Injustice and Catastrophe: How
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Theologischer Verlag Hinterfragen Und Handeln: Ein Vierteljahrhundert
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Dietrich Reimer Vertreibung Und Widerstand Im Sudanesischen
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Die Hamburger Sturmflut Von 1962:
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£38.39
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2009:
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2010
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£41.80
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2014
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£53.20
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Vienna Yearbook of Population Research / Vienna
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£62.70
Schnell & Steiner Mensch . Natur . Katastrophe: Von Atlantis Bis
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£48.84
Verlag Barbara Budrich Social Policies and Institutional Reform in
Book SynopsisThe economic crisis in the wake of the COVID pandemic is putting Cuba's socialism to a severe test. The government in Havana has added a fundamental reform of the economy, institutional structure and social policies to the agenda. This volume brings together contributions from leading international experts as well as from the island itself, analysing the economic, political and social challenges Cuba is facing today.
£75.97
Verlag Barbara Budrich Transdisciplinary Impulses towards
Book SynopsisEducation for sustainable development should enable people to think and act in a way that is fit for the future – in the face of challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, poverty and inequality. How can different disciplines address this task? In this volume, academic interdisciplinary contributions from philosophy, social sciences and education are complemented by transdisciplinary contributions from practical fields (e.g. museum education, journalism). The current contributions provide impulses for reflection and open up spaces for thinking in order to do justice to the complexity of the task of socio-ecological transformation.
£29.01
New India Publishing Agency Geomatics in Tsunami
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PHI Learning Disaster Risk Reduction in South Asia
Book SynopsisThis topical text explores how the risk of disasters can be reduced by structural and non structural measures with detailed, comprehensive strategies.
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Anmol Publications Pvt Ltd Disaster Management Through the New Millenium
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Rawat Disasters in India: Studies in Grim Reality
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Deep & Deep Publications Disaster Administration and Management
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New India Publishing Agency Geomatics in Tsunami
Book SynopsisThe Asian "Mega Tsunami" 2004 has struck most of the territorial nations of South Asia including the East Coast of India. The NRDMS Division, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, has conceived and executed on All India Co-ordinated Programme on "Tsunami Disaster Assessment and Mitigation" through various institutions of expertise on Geomatics in Earth System Dynamics and the related natural disasters. The Geomatics technology which includes Arial Photography, Photogrammetry, Satellite Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing, GPS Surveys, GIS modeling etc. was used in this programme, geo-spatial data bases were created on Tsunami disasters over Natural, Physical and Human Resources and futuristic mitigation strategies were evolved there from. The book illuminates the results of the studies carried out along the Indian Coast and a bird's eye view on the tsunami studies in Norway. In addition, some special papers on the role of mangroves as Tsunami mitigator, Impacts o Tsunami over marine water quality, coral ecosystem etc; the administrator's experience over the tsunami crisis management, NGO's perspective, certain societal issues triggered by the killer Tsunami and citizen's perspective, etc. also find a place in this volume.
£59.74
Institute for Human Development Coming to Grips with Rural Child Work: A Food
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£28.12
Frontpage Publications Women's Encounter with Disaster
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£29.75
Editorial Kolima, S.L. El destructor del Amazonas
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Editorial Kolima, S.L. La vacuna
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IAEA Exposure due to Radionuclides in Food Other than
Book SynopsisRadionuclides of both natural and human made origin exist throughout the environment. These radionuclides can be transferred to plants and animals that are consumed by humans, thereby resulting in exposure to ionizing radiation and an internal radiation dose. This Safety Report provides information on the observed distributions of concentrations of natural radionuclides in various food products, on the use of 'total diet' and other studies to assess ingestion doses, and on radionuclide concentrations in natural mineral waters. Different dose assessment methodologies are presented and the advantages and disadvantages of each is discussed, along with approaches used for managing non-radioactive contaminants in food. This publication is jointly sponsored by the IAEA, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization. It is intended to support Member States in the assessment and management of radionuclides in food, and the alignment of national policies with Requirement 51 of IAEA Safety Standards Series No. GSR.
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United Nations COVID-19 Recovery Action Plan for Informal
Book SynopsisThe COVID-19 Recovery Action Plan for Informal Settlements in the UNECE Region is dealing with both – the new challenges, created by COVID-19, and the pre-existing ones, while also addressing the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This Recovery Action Plan, targeted at national and local governments in the ECE region, provides an extensive list of goals, targets, and actions that can be advanced by governments, local authorities, residents, community leaders, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders to help mitigate and/or prevent the COVID-19 pandemic spread. It is also designed to help build back better to achieve greater resilience against future pandemic risks while simultaneously helping to achieve the Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with a particular focus on SDG 11 on sustainable cities and human settlements.
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United Nations Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021: Resilience in
Book SynopsisThis publication presents a new and extended analysis of the regional risk-scape based on multidisciplinary research conducted. It defines risk hotspots where disasters and biological hazards, climate and health emergencies – including Covid-19 – collide. It further presents the emergence of new systemic risks and cascading hazards, alongside their impacts on peoples and economies. Identifying regional and sub-regional gaps in building resilience into the disaster-health-climate nexus, the report provides tailored, sub-regional insights into opportunities for policy actions and operational solutions to build back better with resilience. The ability to identify and address the unmet needs of those furthest behind within the new risk-scape is also considered here, as is the fiscal cost of a resilience agenda for the region.
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United Nations Global assessment report on disaster risk
Book SynopsisThe central question for this year's report is how governance systems can evolve to better address the systemic risks of the future. In today's crowded and interconnected world, disaster impacts increasingly cascade across geographies and sectors, as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are rapidly making clear. Despite progress, risk creation is outstripping risk reduction. Disasters, economic loss, and the underlying vulnerabilities that drive risk, such as poverty and inequality, are increasing just as ecosystems and biospheres are at risk of collapse. The report highlights that a) the climate emergency and the systemic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic point to a new reality; b) understanding and reducing risk in a world of uncertainty is fundamental to achieving genuinely sustainable development; and c) the best defense against future shocks is to transform systems now, to build resilience by addressing climate change, and to reduce the vulnerability, exposure, and inequality that drive disasters
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United Nations Global assessment report on disaster risk
Book SynopsisGlobal warming will surpass 1.5êC above pre-industrial levels during the next decade, due to greenhouse gas emissions. The constant rise in temperatures and related impacts combine with other pressures, thus increasing risk and undermining resilience. The increasing interconnectedness of people and human systems increases the risk of compound and cascading crises. The maps in this report highlight a number of these resilience deficits that are holding back achievement of key sustainable development goals. At the same time, the report's action case examples show that this is not inevitable, and how action is possible on every continent to stop the worsening spiral of risk and disasters and to accelerate SDG target achievement. Addressing resilience gaps will require the unprecedented scaling-up of resilience investment and adaptation action both from within the public and private sectors, particularly for the most vulnerable countries. As these investments take time to mobilize and prepare, delay will increase the inevitable costs. Action is needed now. Disaster risk reduction sits at the nexus between development, humanitarian and climate change action, and can help foster more-sustainable resilient action in each. Readjusting development pathways requires a re-examination of how prosperity is measured, and a greater emphasis on resilience as key element of sustainable development today and in the future
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World Health Organization Natural Disasters
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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Health Sector Response to the Bam Earthquake:
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WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Social Determinants of Health in Countries in
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£18.43
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Public health laboratories for alert and
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WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific Securing regional health through APSED: building
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Double 9 Books Off On A Comet! A Journey Through Planetary Space
Book SynopsisThe story opens when a comet named Gallia collects a few tiny bits of Earth while passing by it in midair. The disaster occurred close to Gibraltar on January 1st, 1885. There are still 36 people in the territory the comet has occupied who are of French, English, Spanish, and Russian nationalities. At first, they don't know what's happened and think there's been an earthquake instead of a collision. Adjutant Ben Zoof for Captain Servadac surprises himself by jumping 12 meters (39 feet) in the air as the first indication of weight loss. Soon after, Zoof and Servadac also observe that there are only six hours between day and night, that east and west have switched places, and that water begins to boil at 66 C (151 F), from which they correctly deduce that the atmosphere has thinned and the pressure has reduced. They observe the Earth and the Moon when they first arrive at Gallia, but they incorrectly think it is a newly discovered planet. Their research expedition, which included a ship that the comet also captured, produced additional important data.
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Amsterdam University Press Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to
Book SynopsisDisasters are as much cultural as natural phenomena. For centuries, news about catastrophic events has been disseminated through media such as chronicles, pamphlets, newspapers, poems, drawings, and prints. Nowadays, we are overwhelmed with news about the cataclysmic effects of recent forest fires, floods, and storms. Due to the ongoing climate crisis, extreme weather events will likely have ever greater impacts on our lives. This volume addresses cultural representations of catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and earthquakes over the centuries. In the past as now, artists and authors try to make sense of disasters, grasp their impact, and communicate moral, religious, or political messages. These creations reflect and shape how people learn and think about disasters that occur nearby or far away, both in time and space. The parallels between past and present underline how this book contributes to modern debates about cultural and creative strategies in response to disasters.Trade Review“This volume … shows the necessity of a more organic integration of cultural history with other branches of social, economic, political, and environmental history. Put simply, this volume is asking all the important questions.” -- Daniel R. Curtis, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, Vol. 136, Issue 3, December 2023Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Cultural Responses to Catastrophes from Early Modern to Modern Times (Hanneke van Asperen and Lotte Jensen) PART 1 - Disaster and Emotions 1. Temporality, Emotion, and Gender in Leonardo da Vinci’s Conceptualisation of Natural Violence (Susan Broomhall) 2. Early Modern Community Formation Across Northern Europe: How and Why a Poet in Poland Engaged with the Delft Thunderclap of 1654 (Paul Hulsenboom) 3. Landscape as Wounded Body: Emotional Engagement in Visual Images of Floods (Hanneke van Asperen) 4. Suffering Compatriots: Compassion, Catastrophe, and National Identification in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century (Fons Meijer) 5. Cultural Resilience during Nineteenth-Century Cholera Outbreaks in the Netherlands (Lotte Jensen) PART 2 - Disaster and Blame 6. Dealing in Disasters: Selling Apocalyptic Interpretations of Disasters in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries (Marieke van Egeraat) 7. The Ten Plagues of the New World: The Sensemaking of Epidemic Depopulation in Sixteenth-Century Mesoamerica (Florian Wieser) 8. ‘Hungry Balliz Wants Weel Fillin’: The Visualisation of the Great Irish Famine (1845-1851) and the Lancashire Cotton Famine (1861-1865) in the Victorian Illustrated Press (Sophie van Os) 9. Rinderpest in Dutch Regional Fiction: Community, Precariousness, and Blame (Anneloek Scholten) PART 3 - Disaster and Time 10. Coping with Epidemics in Early Modern Chronicles, The Low Countries, 1500-1850 (Theo Dekker) 11. Coverage in Dutch Newspapers of Earthquakes in Italy and Beyond before Lisbon 1755 (Joop W. Koopmans) 12. The Development of Disaster Prints and Publications in Japan, 1663-1923 (Julia Mariko Jacoby) 13. Breaking the Cycles of Catastrophe: Disaster, Time, and Nation in Dutch Flood Commemoration Books, 1757-1800 (Adriaan Duiveman) 14. Disaster Memory and ‘Banished Memory’: General Considerations and Case Studies from Europe and the United States (19th-21st Centuries) (Christian Rohr) Notes on the Contributors
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