This book unlocks the transformative potential of Micro Human Efforts (MHE) in the domain of disaster resilience through an interwoven narrative of human resilience. It serves as an invaluable resource for researchers interested in advancing sustain...Loe edasi...
This volume is a critical interrogation of the concept, meaning and experience of disaster in 21st-century Japan. Throughout the chapters, a central theme and guiding theoretical perspective is the recognition of the human element in disasters....Loe edasi...
This book explores the shifting role and relevance of humanitarian action today, through the prism of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF). This important and candid self-critical analysis will be an important read for humanitari...Loe edasi...
This important book combines insights from disciplines as diverse as developmental psychopathology, pediatrics, and public policy to offer a detailed description of the impact of global crises such as armed conflict, climate change, and environmenta...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1986, this text covers both physical and human geography. Man-environment themes such as resource use and environmental management are interwoven throughout the book; and in the human geography sections, both the developed an...Loe edasi...
This book provides a framework for rethinking crisis approaches and designing a world that is better prepared to avoid or minimize catastrophic events. It is suited to advanced students and scholars within crisis communication, emergency management,...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1982. Throughout the text, the relevance of physical geography to the human side is stressed. The book uses material drawn from the events of the real world and each chapter begins with a story revealing a geographical messag...Loe edasi...
This book is a festschrift in tribute to Ben Wisners contributions to disaster studies and adjacent fields of scholarship such as political ecology, development, and sustainability....Loe edasi...
Presents a comprehensive coverage of the various types of floods. The use of geospatial techniques for flood mapping and monitoring, multi-criteria decision-making techniques for risk management, and machine learning algorithms for flood prediction,...Loe edasi...
This second edition of Handbook of Emergency Response presents practical advice and guidelines on how to plan the coordinated execution of emergency response. It incorporates human factors and a systems engineering approach in emergency response pro...Loe edasi...
Guided by a belief that good crisis communication theory should inform and improve practice, this book makes a wide range of theories utilized in crisis communication accessible to researchers, students, and practitioners....Loe edasi...
The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world. This book explores possible local strategies and global solutions in the safeguarding of coastal...Loe edasi...
This book explores the pervasive anticipation of catastrophe in contemporary society, examining how temporal expectations shape personal and collective experiences and influence our perspectives and responses....Loe edasi...
This book addresses how water supply systems can be planned, designed and managed for sustainability by presenting unique approaches and methodologies in rural drinking water supply schemes. It synthesizes the findings of research studies undertaken...Loe edasi...
This book analyzes social capital and preparations for natural hazards in the Philippines, arguing that economic inequality is detrimental to social capital which then makes societies more at risk of having natural hazards turn into disasters. It fe...Loe edasi...
The 2011 Kii Peninsula disaster was postwar Japans largest sediment and flood disaster. This book analyses the disaster and the emergency response and subsequent disaster prevention efforts. It also provides an international comparison and recommend...Loe edasi...
This first of its kind volume introduces Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction (DIDRR) in unprecedented critical and interdisciplinary ways covering the complex conceptual, theoretical and practice terrain....Loe edasi...
The Handbook of Disaster Response and Recovery covers the two post-disaster stages of the disaster cycle and presents a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of their many considerations....Loe edasi...
This important new textbook provides a concise and practice-oriented introduction to the humanitarian sector and the key debates surrounding it. This exciting new textbook will be important for students wanting a comprehensive introduction, as well...Loe edasi...
This volume considers how local, national, and global crises with differing durations, sizes, and impacts challenge the public sector to respond. It gathers experts from different fields to explore how each crisis challenges human capacity, informat...Loe edasi...
Wildfires pose a persistent global challenge, affecting ecosystems, human societies, and the climate. This comprehensive volume, Wildfires: Principles, Management Strategies, and Best Practices authored by Dr. Ankur Awadhiya, provides an authorita...Loe edasi...
This book offers a critical exploration into Indigenous knowledge systems, particularly focusing on Indigenous land-based knowledge and practice in reshaping disaster adaptations....Loe edasi...
In Disaster Memorials and Monuments: History, Context and Practice from around the World, disaster management expert Kjell Brataas presents an exploration on memorials and monuments built in the aftermath of accidents, natural disasters and acts of...Loe edasi...
This book examines how peoples self-awareness is affected by both internal and external factors amid war and poverty. It explores how agency has influenced the inward human development of rural women who face triple disadvantages related to gender,...Loe edasi...
This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies. It will be of interest to readers across the fields of global development, African studies, an...Loe edasi...
This book contains the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to trace the disaster response the regime engaged in, contextualizing its contribution to the public risk that remains in Romanias capital Bucharest....Loe edasi...
Europe has a long history of managing coastal erosion through a variety of protection strategies. This book provides a comprehensive review of the entire coastline of Europe; a comparative analysis of erosion problems and solutions, considering both...Loe edasi...
During the five decades since its origin, law and economics has provided an influential framework for addressing a wide array of areas of law ranging from judicial behaviour to contracts. This book will reflect the first-ever forum for law and econo...Loe edasi...
