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Coastal Hazards in Bangladesh: Non-Structural and Structural Solutions provides a review of the study of Bangladesh's coastal region, an area whose location and physical geography present the prefect microcosm for the study of coastal hazards and for the development of...
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Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution :
2016-09-28
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Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation covers systematic social network analysis and how people and institutions function in disasters, after disasters, and the ways they adapt to hazard settings. As hazards become disasters, the...
Editeur :
Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution :
2016-09-09
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This book aims to uncover the root causes of natural and man-made disasters by going beyond the typical reports and case studies conducted post-disaster. It opens the black box of disasters by presenting ‘forensic analysis approaches’ to disasters,...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-09-03
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The goal of this book is to explore disaster risk reduction (DRR), migration, climate change adaptation (CCA) and sustainable development linkages from a number of different geographical, social and natural science angles. Well-known scientists and practitioners...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-08-29
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This thesis represents one of the few studies so far that systematically analyses environmental conditions within debris flow source areas to determine their relative importance for debris flow development. Environmental site conditions, such as slope gradient and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-06-11
Collection :
Springer Theses
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These proceedings include most of the available information on this major seismic event and its consequences. With an estimated moment magnitude of 7.7 and a heavy toll in terms of human and economic losses, it ranks as the largest intermediate-depth earthquake in...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-03-02
Collection :
Springer Natural Hazards
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Geophysical mass flows, such as landslides, avalanches or debris flows, are frequent mass movement processes in mountain areas and often cause disastrous damage. This book lays a foundation for formulating the depth-averaged equations describing the shallow geophysical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-02-02
Collection :
Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics
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Robertson on Library Security and Disaster Planning presents a collection of highly-cited, author published articles on security and disaster planning for libraries.
The book represents the only place where these articles are compiled, making it a go-to volume for...
Editeur :
Chandos Publishing
Parution :
2016-01-29
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The book emphasizes a contemporary view on the role of higher level fusion in designing crisis management systems, and provide the formal foundations, architecture and implementation strategies required for building dynamic current and future situational pictures,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-01-21
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Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia presents the latest information on the intensity and frequency of disasters. Specifically, the fact that, in urban areas, more than 50% of the world's population is living on just 2% of the land surface, with most of these cities...
Editeur :
Butterworth-Heinemann
Parution :
2016-01-06
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Tsunamis in the European-Mediterranean Region: From Historical Record to Risk Mitigation provides readers with a much needed, reliable, and up-to-date history of the region, including descriptions and parameters of the main events from pre-history to the present that...
Editeur :
Elsevier
Parution :
2015-12-03
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Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth's biosphere. Many of these are caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and...
Editeur :
Elsevier
Parution :
2015-11-17
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This book introduces a new way of analyzing, measuring and thinking about mega-risks, a “paradigm shift” that moves from single-solutions to multiple competitive solutions and strategies. “Robust simulation” is a statistical approach that demonstrates future risk...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-11-11
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This volume synthesizes critical environmental challenges of dynamic earth and human environment systems in South Asia emphasizing geographical dimensions. It deals with spaceborne monitoring, climate, ecohydrology, forests and biodiversity, land-use and land-cover...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-10-13
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This book details the analysis and design of high rise buildings for gravity and seismic analysis. It provides the knowledge structural engineers need to retrofit existing structures in order to meet safety requirements and better prevent potential damage from such...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-13
Collection :
Solid Mechanics and Its Applications
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This book summarizes the results of 3 years of agricultural and forestry reconstructive efforts and applied research conducted directly in the affected areas of Fukushima following the Great East Japan Earthquake. It describes fast and effective revival methods and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-08-11
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This book explores an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of gender and development studies, disaster and land tenure policy. It is well known that women generally have weaker claims to land. But how does that translate to increased vulnerability during...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-06-30
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace
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More than a simple monograph, the authors present a comprehensive geomorphic overview of a large tropical region where they show how deciphering the long-term landform evolution helps understanding the present set of landscapes and morphodynamic environments. The...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-05-30
Collection :
Springer Earth System Sciences
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This book presents strategies for managing disasters and reducing risks in Asian countries. Given the dynamic changes in the natural environment as well as the patterns of land use and management, the growing populations of the developing nations in Asia, migration...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-05-29
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This monograph provides valuable lessons in building disaster resilience for rural communities and beyond. With a focus on Florida, the authors present a comprehensive review of the current debates surrounding the study of resilience, from federal frameworks, state...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-05-12
Collection :
Environmental Hazards
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