wyszukanych pozycji: 10
The Most Precious Present in the World
ISBN: 9781905664733 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Taking the form of a dialogue between a little girl called Mia and her adoptive mother, this book explores questions that might preoccupy an adopted child. Mia wants to know why she looks different to her adoptive parents and why her birth parents didn't want to keep her.
Taking the form of a dialogue between a little girl called Mia and her adoptive mother, this book explores questions that might preoccupy an adopted c...
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50,66 zł |
The Dynamics of Risk: Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events
ISBN: 9780691165363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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480,48 zł |
Managing Disaster: Strategies and Policy Perspectives
ISBN: 9780822308164 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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129,62 zł |
The Dynamics of Risk: Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events
ISBN: 9780691165370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly interdependent systems of transportation, communication, energy, and finance. In this important book, Louise Comfort provides an unprecedented examination of how twelve communities in nine countries responded to destructiv
Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly interdependent systems...
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191,10 zł |
Shared Risk: Complex Systems in Seismic Response
ISBN: 9780080432113 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hardbound. Shared Risk is an unparalleled study of how communities at risk respond to major hazards. This major new book explores the elastic boundary between structure and flexibility that enables modern organizations to function effectively under uncertain, dynamic conditions.Through a comprehensive analysis of earthquake case studies, Louise Comfort shows how communities and organizations cope with dynamic and unpredicted events. Drawing upon the concept of shared risk, she examines the self-organizing processes by which communities act in their own interest to mitigate and reduce risk....
Hardbound. Shared Risk is an unparalleled study of how communities at risk respond to major hazards. This major new book explores the elastic boundary...
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638,77 zł |
Global Risk Management: The Role of Collective Cognition in Response to Covid-19
ISBN: 9781032181820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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700,25 zł |
Hazardous Seas: A Sociotechnical Framework for Early Tsunami Detection and Warning
ISBN: 9781642831634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Tsunamis are infrequent but terrifying hazards for coastal communities. Difficult to predict, they materialise with little warning, claiming thousands of lives and causing billions of dollars in damage. Recent mega-tsunamis in Japan and Indonesia claimed close to 250,000 lives, triggering wide-scale economic and social disruption. Developing countries cannot afford costly underwater cable systems, and governments and relief organisations have been forced to rely on flawed warning systems such as deep-sea buoys. Now, a ground-breaking new approach to tsunami detection and warning, which relies...
Tsunamis are infrequent but terrifying hazards for coastal communities. Difficult to predict, they materialise with little warning, claiming thousands...
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196,56 zł |
Global Risk Management: The Role of Collective Cognition in Response to Covid-19
ISBN: 9781032181844 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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207,43 zł |
Housing Recovery After Disasters
ISBN: 9781498592796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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464,10 zł |
Designing Resilience: Preparing for Extreme Events
ISBN: 9780822960614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the wake of severe climatic events and terrorist acts, and the emergence of dangerous technologies, communities, nations, and global organizations have diligently sought to create strategies to prepare for such events. Designing Resilience presents case studies of extreme events and analyzes the ability of affected individuals, institutions, governments, and technological systems to cope with disaster. This volume defines resilience as it relates to disaster management at specific stages: mitigation, prevention, preparation, and response and recovery. The book illustrates models...
In the wake of severe climatic events and terrorist acts, and the emergence of dangerous technologies, communities, nations, and global organizations ...
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301,98 zł |