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Convergent Leadership-Divergent Exposures: Climate Change, Resilience, Vulnerabilities, and Ethics
ISBN: 9783030749323 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims, through its chapters, at providing the knowledge to make competent decisions, convince peers or top management to take appropriate action, or beat out the competition for climate adaptation measures including adjustments for design and operations. Topics discussed include business-as-usual vs. divergence; the effects of public pressure on corporate, industrial and government decision making; techniques for gathering the proper information to assess risks and hazards; the importance determining risk tolerance thresholds; the difference between tolerable risks,... This book aims, through its chapters, at providing the knowledge to make competent decisions, convince peers or top management to take appropriate ... |
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363,12 zł |
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Wasn't That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster
ISBN: 9781496841698 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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487,78 zł |
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Wasn't That a Mighty Day: African American Blues and Gospel Songs on Disaster
ISBN: 9781496841766 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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175,60 zł |
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Catastrophes, Confrontations, and Constraints: How Disasters Shape the Dynamics of Armed Conflicts
ISBN: 9780262545556 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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216,89 zł |
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Surviving the Climate Crisis: Australian Perspectives and Solutions
ISBN: 9781032039473 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,43 zł |
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Surviving the Climate Crisis: Australian Perspectives and Solutions
ISBN: 9781032039534 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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463,34 zł |
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The Routledge Handbook of Urban Disaster Resilience: Integrating Mitigation, Preparedness, and Recovery Planning
ISBN: 9781032401287 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The primary audience is planning and hazards scholars, with some cross-over into sociology. This book is focused on the US, and courses would include undergraduate and graduate level Hazard Mitigation, Land Use Planning, Disaster Management.
The primary audience is planning and hazards scholars, with some cross-over into sociology. This book is focused on the US, and courses would include ...
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180,43 zł |
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Cyclones in Southern Africa: Volume 3: Implications for the Sustainable Development Goals
ISBN: 9783030743055 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tropical cyclones in Southern Africa, also known as hurricanes or typhoons in other regions of the world, is a hot subject for academic research. This focus has been magnified by the need to consider tropical cyclones in the context of other global development agendas, that includes the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its inseparable 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and Habitat III’s New Urban Agenda. The ambitious SDGs challenge global and community leaders to make sure development addresses the... Tropical cyclones in Southern Africa, also known as hurricanes or typhoons in other regions of the world, is a hot subject for academic research. T... |
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605,23 zł |
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Community Resilience When Disaster Strikes: Security and Community Health in UK Flood Zones
ISBN: 9783031079917 / Angielski / Twarda / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the operationalization of community resilience in the United Kingdom (UK) in connection with severe floods. Written for early academic professionals, students, and community practitioners, it investigates the educational and practical meaning and application of community resilience using a UK-centric local-level case study. Exploring the perceptions of both those who have been affected by a natural hazard and those who have not, the book reveals how trust, community resources, and neighborhood security can offer effective ways of bringing communities together after a...
This book addresses the operationalization of community resilience in the United Kingdom (UK) in connection with severe floods. Written for early acad...
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403,47 zł |
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Invisible Iceberg: When Climate and Weather Shaped History
ISBN: 9781510776630 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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141,19 zł |
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Adaptive Urban Transformation: Urban Landscape Dynamics, Regional Design and Territorial Governance in the Pearl River Delta, China
ISBN: 9783030898274 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast urbanising deltas, taking the Pearl River Delta (China) as a case study. Deltaic areas are among the most promising regions in the world. Their strategic location and superior quality of their soils are core factors supporting both human development and the rise of these regions as global economic hubs. At the same time, however, deltas are extremely vulnerable to multiple threats from both climate change and urbanisation. These include an...
This open access book provides a cross-sectoral, integrative and multi-scale design and planning approach for adaptive urban transformation of fast ur...
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201,72 zł |
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Intelligent Methods with Applications in Volcanology and Seismology
ISBN: 9783031154317 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents intelligent methods like neural, neuro-fuzzy, machine learning, deep learning and metaheuristic methods and their applications in both volcanology and seismology. The complex system of volcanoes and also earthquakes is a big challenge to identify their behavior using available models, which motivates scientists to apply non-model based methods. As there are lots of seismology and volcanology data sets, i.e., the local and global networks, one solution is using intelligent methods in which data-based algorithms are used.
This book presents intelligent methods like neural, neuro-fuzzy, machine learning, deep learning and metaheuristic methods and their applications in b...
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685,93 zł |
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Groundwater and Water Quality: Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering
ISBN: 9783031095504 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book deals with topics of current interest, such as climate change, floods, drought, and hydrological extremes. The impact of climate change on water resources is drawing worldwide attention these days, for water resources in many countries are already stressed and climate change along with burgeoning population, rising standard of living, and increasing demand are adding to the stress. Further, river basins are becoming less resilient to climatic vagaries. Fundamental to addressing these issues is hydrological modelling which is covered in these books. Further, integrated water...
This book deals with topics of current interest, such as climate change, floods, drought, and hydrological extremes. The impact of climate change on w...
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403,47 zł |
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Instrumentation and Measurement Technologies for Water Cycle Management
ISBN: 9783031082610 / Angielski / Twarda / 599 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims at presenting a unified framework for the description of working principles, recent advances and applications of cutting-edge measurement technologies for the water sector. Instrumentation and measurement technologies are currently playing a key role in the monitoring, assessment and protection of environmental resources. Measurement techniques and sensing methods for the observation of water systems are rapidly evolving and are requiring an increased multi-disciplinary participation.The whole water sector is characterised by multiple technological contexts concerning the...
This book aims at presenting a unified framework for the description of working principles, recent advances and applications of cutting-edge measureme...
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564,88 zł |
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Report on Yangtze River Rehabilitation and Protection 2019
ISBN: 9789811649295 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book summarizes the achievements and experience of the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection, analyzes the new situation and requirements of the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection, and discusses the main issues and their solution alternatives for the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection efforts. The Yangtze River, respected as the mother river of the Chinese nation, contributes immensely toward the socioeconomic development of China and braces up the national strategies such as the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the integrated development of the...
This book summarizes the achievements and experience of the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection, analyzes the new situation and requirements o...
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443,82 zł |
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Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9789811660900 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book highlights the current issues, challenges, and priorities for climate change adaptation in the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The status of each country was prepared by a consortium of researchers in consultation with National Focal Points of the ASEAN Working Group on Climate Change (AWGCC). National documents on adaptation actions, including local scenario and priorities, were reviewed where available and supplemented with an assessment of scientific publications to identify vulnerable ecosystems and regions. Adaptation needs and...
This book highlights the current issues, challenges, and priorities for climate change adaptation in the ten member states of the Association of South...
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524,53 zł |
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International Handbook of Disaster Research
ISBN: 9789811983870 / Angielski / Twarda / 2300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook is a comprehensive source of information, analysis and directions in disaster studies. It goes beyond the oft-explored issues of management and science related to the topic and explores policies, governance, law and decision-making combined with the processes of implementation and enforcement, all the while integrating the latest science and technology updates related to the topic, such as artificial intelligence and early warning systems. It brings together studies which relate to sociology, politics and institutional economics, which work under the impact of resource...
This handbook is a comprehensive source of information, analysis and directions in disaster studies. It goes beyond the oft-explored issues of mana...
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3429,84 zł |
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Merapi Volcano: Geology, Eruptive Activity, and Monitoring of a High-Risk Volcano
ISBN: 9783031150395 / Angielski / Twarda / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides the first comprehensive compilation of cutting-edge research on Merapi volcano on the island of Java, Indonesia, one of the most iconic volcanoes in the world. It integrates results from both the natural (geology, petrology, geochemistry, geophysics, physical volcanology) and social sciences, and provides state-of-the-art information on volcano monitoring, the assessment of volcanic hazards, and risk mitigation measures.As one of Indonesia’s most active and dangerous volcanoes, Merapi is perhaps best known for its pyroclastic density currents, which are produced by...
This book provides the first comprehensive compilation of cutting-edge research on Merapi volcano on the island of Java, Indonesia, one of the most ic...
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605,23 zł |
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The Physical Geography of Georgia
ISBN: 9783030907525 / Angielski / Twarda / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete physical geography of Georgia in English. It discusses natural and environmental conditions, hydrology, geomorphology, landscapes, and resources and elaborates issues of environmental protection, natural hazards, resource potentials, tourism and many other topics of this multifaceted country.This volume will appeal to researchers, educators and students in the fields of natural and environmental sciences, geography, geology, regional studies and related areas.
This book is the first to give a comprehensive and detailed overview of the complete physical geography of Georgia in English. It discusses natural an...
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403,47 zł |
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Coastal Urbanities: Mobilities, Meanings, Manoeuvrings
ISBN: 9789004511088 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast Asia. As such, it rethinks the place of the sea in coastal cities through a mobility-inspired understanding of urbanity itself.
This volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast As...
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447,23 zł |
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