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Droughts in Asian Monsoon Region
ISBN: 9780857248633 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Asian monsoon region is one of these areas where consecutive years of droughts are causing severe problems for the lives and livelihoods of the communities. This book outlines the characteristics and challenges of the Asian monsoon drought and highlights innovative solutions and approaches undertaken in different parts of the region.
The Asian monsoon region is one of these areas where consecutive years of droughts are causing severe problems for the lives and livelihoods of the co...
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472,92 |
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Ecosystem-Based Adaptation
ISBN: 9781780526904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ecosystems are often examined from a ecological perspective because of the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services. This book makes a case for ecosystem-based adaptation by arguing that ecosystems and its services are critical in the climate change and disaster risk reduction fields.
Ecosystems are often examined from a ecological perspective because of the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services. This book makes a case f...
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514,50 |
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Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction
ISBN: 9784431562504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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415,75 |
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India, Japan and Beyond: Human Security, Environment, Development, Innovation and Resilience
ISBN: 9789819732814 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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647,09 |
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Water Communities
ISBN: 9781849506984 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Water is the key to human civilization. Due to innovations of knowledge & technology & modernization of lifestyles, the human-water direct contact has become less significant. This book provides analytical case studies on different aspects of water communities, which is defined as the human-water interaction process.
Water is the key to human civilization. Due to innovations of knowledge & technology & modernization of lifestyles, the human-water direct contact has...
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Integrated Lagoon Fisheries Management: Resource Dynamics and Adaptation
ISBN: 9780857241634 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Lagoons are characterized by an essential quality of uncertainty for use in resource management: these are physically vulnerable to various influences from not only the environment but also the adjacent marine and terrestrial areas. In the areas which are shallower and where less water is exchanges, therefore, fishers are required to develop their capacity of knowledge and skills for how to live with change and uncertainty. The wider realization of complex and dynamic lagoon ecosystem and its fisheries management requires multifaceted aspects to be addressed. Fisheries serve as a basis for...
Lagoons are characterized by an essential quality of uncertainty for use in resource management: these are physically vulnerable to various influences...
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Disaster Education
ISBN: 9780857247377 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Education is the key to risk reduction, be it environmental management or disaster risk reduction, and is a process which needs to be embedded at different levels of management and practices to collectively reduce the risk. While school education forms the foundations of the knowledge cycle, for effective knowledge use, it is necessary to link school and community education. Education is linked to enhanced awareness and a key reflection of education is seen in terms of actions. Divided into four sections this book begins with an informative introduction to the subject of disaster risk...
Education is the key to risk reduction, be it environmental management or disaster risk reduction, and is a process which needs to be embedded at diff...
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Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective
ISBN: 9780857244857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Following on from Volume 4 in this series, which looked at issues and challenges with regard to Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Volume 5 has a specific focus on Asia. Arguably among the regions of the world most vulnerable to climate change, Asia has different mechanisms for CCA and DRR activities. Synergies between DRR and CCA in this region are necessary not only to avoid duplicities and derive optimal benefits from scarce resources but also to add value to projects through lessons learnt from a variety of perspectives. This volume provides 19 case studies...
Following on from Volume 4 in this series, which looked at issues and challenges with regard to Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Redu...
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Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Issues and Challenges
ISBN: 9780857244871 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the first academic publication to highlight the linkages between Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). Key issues and challenges related to CCA-DRR synergy and interactions are highlighted throughout, mostly drawing lessons and experiences from the field practices and greatly increasing current awareness.
This is the first academic publication to highlight the linkages between Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). Key issues...
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Considerations for a Post-COVID-19 Technology and Innovation Ecosystem in China
ISBN: 9789811669613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. COVID-19 has made differential impacts on countries and communities around the world. China, where COVID-19 started, has developed and utilized different types of technologies, including both traditional and disruptive technologies, to address the pandemic risks. Also, there have been many innovations in applying technologies in different contexts during the pandemic as well as in the post-pandemic recovery and preparedness aspects. This book covers some of these technological developments as well as the governance mechanisms for developing a technology and innovation ecosystem in a...
COVID-19 has made differential impacts on countries and communities around the world. China, where COVID-19 started, has developed and utilized differ...
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Resilient and Adaptive Tokyo: Towards Sustainable Urbanization in Perspective of Food-energy-water Nexus
ISBN: 9789819938360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Our cities, and the systems that support them, have not been designed to address the FWE nexus. There exist gaps in awareness of the role and impacts of climate change. Improving communication among stakeholders with the support of scientific evidence is the key to narrowing the gaps. This book approached this issue with a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary moveable nexus approach through the lens of FEW nexus under the project of the Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative of Belmont Forum. It presents a collection of evidence/science-based planning decisions and participatory...
Our cities, and the systems that support them, have not been designed to address the FWE nexus. There exist gaps in awareness of the role and impacts ...
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727,99 |
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Geopolitics, Innovation and Societal Challenges: Role of India and Japan
ISBN: 9789819541041 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides
ISBN: 9789811673160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 491 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries. Scholars recently have brought about a shift in their focus regarding triggering factors for landslides, from rainfall or earthquake to claiming rapid urbanization, extreme population pressure, improper land use planning, illegal hill cutting for settlements and indiscriminate deforestation. This suggests that the occurrence or probabilities of landslides are shaped by both climate-related and non-climate-related anthropogenic factors. Among these issues,...
This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries. Scholars rece...
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Climate Change, Disaster Risks, and Human Security: Asian Experience and Perspectives
ISBN: 9789811588518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Urban Risk Reduction: An Asian Perspective
ISBN: 9781781901595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As cities all over the world have urbanized rapidly after the industrial revolution, most cities have confronted environmental problems such as poor air and water quality, high levels of traffic congestion and ambient noise. This book brings the lessons from innovative urban risk management approaches in Asian cities.
As cities all over the world have urbanized rapidly after the industrial revolution, most cities have confronted environmental problems such as poor a...
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202,65 |
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Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Global Perspectives
ISBN: 9780443140525 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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567,83 |
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Public Health and Disasters: Health Emergency and Disaster Risk Management in Asia
ISBN: 9789811509261 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Media and Disaster Risk Reduction: Advances, Challenges and Potentials
ISBN: 9789811602870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia Pacific: Governance, Education and Capacity
ISBN: 9789811648137 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from across the Asia Pacific region, covering four main sections: 1) Governance, 2) Education and Capacity, 3) Science, Technology, Risk Assessment and Communities, and 4) Recovery. The chapters address different dimensions of Sendai Framework of Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR), which are linked to Sustainable Development Goals, as well as Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from across the Asia Pacific region, covering four main sections: 1) Governance, 2) Education...
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606,65 |
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Two Decades from the Indian Ocean Tsunami: Key Challenges and Advancements
ISBN: 9789819626687 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book presents the advancements in the disaster risk reduction and resilience building in the countries affected by the Indian Ocean Tsunami countries. The book includes a few cross-cutting issues related to governance, technology, and communities, with two major parts: (1) cross-cutting issues and (2) regional and country level experiences. At the threshold of twenty years from Indian Ocean Tsunami, the concept of disaster risk reduction field has evolved significantly in the affected countries as well as around the world. Globally, several mega disasters happened in the last 20...
This book presents the advancements in the disaster risk reduction and resilience building in the countries affected by the Indian Ocean Tsunami count...
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