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Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis
ISBN: 9780821359303 / Angielski / Miękka / 145 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in economic losses each year around the world. Many billions of dollars in humanitarian assistance, emergency loans, and development aid are expended annually. Yet efforts to reduce the risks of natural hazards remain largely uncoordinated across different hazard types and do not necessarily focus on areas at highest risk of disaster. 'Natural Disaster Hotspots' presents a global view of major natural disaster risk hotspots areas at relatively...
Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars ...
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102,39 zł |
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Natural Disaster Hotspots Case Studies
ISBN: 9780821363324 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These case studies complement the earlier groundbreaking work of 'Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysi's published in April 2005. Three case studies address specific hazards: landslides, storm surges and drought. An additional, three case studies address regional multi-hazard situations in Sri Lanka, the Tana River basin in Kenya, and the city of Caracas, Venezuela.
These case studies complement the earlier groundbreaking work of 'Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysi's published in April 2005. Three ca...
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82,88 zł |
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Hazards of Nature, Risks to Development : An IEG Evaluation of World Bank Assistance for Natural Disasters
ISBN: 9780821366509 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group examined the Bank's experience in disaster prevention and response over the past 20 years and found that the scale of Bank operations has grown over the period. The report found that the Bank has demonstrated considerable flexibility in its approach, but actions have tended to be more reactive than proactive, with disaster response taking more of the focus than preventative measures.
The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group examined the Bank's experience in disaster prevention and response over the past 20 years and found that...
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121,89 zł |
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Emergency Relief Operations
ISBN: 9780823222391 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early Warning Systems: From Surveillance to Risk Assessment to Action Ted R. Gurr and Barbara Harff Initial Response to Complex Emergencies and Natural Disasters Ed Tsui Evidence-Based Health Assessment Process in Complex Emergencies Frederick M. Burkle, Jr., M.D. Concern Worldwide's Approach to Water and Sanitation and Shelter Needs in Emergencies Tom Arnold Internal Displacement: A Challenge of Peace, Security, and Nationbuilding Francis M. Deng Protection Strategies in Humanitarian Interventions Gerald R. Martone Issues of Power and Gender in Complex Emergencies Judy A. Benjamin Clinical...
Early Warning Systems: From Surveillance to Risk Assessment to Action Ted R. Gurr and Barbara Harff Initial Response to Complex Emergencies and Natura...
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365,83 zł |
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Emergency Relief Operations
ISBN: 9780823222407 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early Warning Systems: From Surveillance to Risk Assessment to Action Ted R. Gurr and Barbara Harff Initial Response to Complex Emergencies and Natural Disasters Ed Tsui Evidence-Based Health Assessment Process in Complex Emergencies Frederick M. Burkle, Jr., M.D. Concern Worldwide's Approach to Water and Sanitation and Shelter Needs in Emergencies Tom Arnold Internal Displacement: A Challenge of Peace, Security, and Nationbuilding Francis M. Deng Protection Strategies in Humanitarian Interventions Gerald R. Martone Issues of Power and Gender in Complex Emergencies Judy A. Benjamin Clinical...
Early Warning Systems: From Surveillance to Risk Assessment to Action Ted R. Gurr and Barbara Harff Initial Response to Complex Emergencies and Natura...
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151,21 zł |
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Basics of International Humanitarian Mission
ISBN: 9780823222421 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book is a primer on the basics of humanitarian action. The ten chapters-each written by a leading professional-introduce the essential issues facing humanitarian workers as they confront both natural and man-made crises.Designed for students, teachers, practitioners, policy-makers, journalists, and other professionals, Basics of Humanitarian Missions covers fundamental concepts, contexts, and problems, in settings that range from floods and earthquakes to medical emergencies, civil strife, and forced migration.ContentsHumanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century: The Danger...
This important book is a primer on the basics of humanitarian action. The ten chapters-each written by a leading professional-introduce the essential ...
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282,91 zł |
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Basics of International Humanitarian Missions
ISBN: 9780823222438 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book is a primer on the basics of humanitarian action. The ten chapters-each written by a leading professional-introduce the essential issues facing humanitarian workers as they confront both natural and man-made crises.Designed for students, teachers, practitioners, policy-makers, journalists, and other professionals, Basics of Humanitarian Missions covers fundamental concepts, contexts, and problems, in settings that range from floods and earthquakes to medical emergencies, civil strife, and forced migration.ContentsHumanitarian Action in the Twenty-First Century: The Danger...
This important book is a primer on the basics of humanitarian action. The ten chapters-each written by a leading professional-introduce the essential ...
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151,21 zł |
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Traditions, Values, and Humanitarian Action
ISBN: 9780823222872 / Angielski / Twarda / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This third volume in the pioneering series, International Humanitarian Affairs, goes beyond the practical to address fundamental questions at the heart of humanitarian actions. How do different religious, cultural, and social systems--and the values they support--shape humanitarian action? What are the bases of caring societies? Are there universal values for human well-being? International experts come face to face with the assumptions about human dignity and social justice that guide efforts to rescue and repair communities in crisis. The original essays explore mandates for humanitarian...
This third volume in the pioneering series, International Humanitarian Affairs, goes beyond the practical to address fundamental questions at the hear...
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404,86 zł |
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Traditions, Values, and Humanitarian Action
ISBN: 9780823222889 / Angielski / Miękka / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This third volume in the pioneering series, International Humanitarian Affairs, goes beyond the practical to address fundamental questions at the heart of humanitarian actions. How do different religious, cultural, and social systems--and the values they support--shape humanitarian action? What are the bases of caring societies? Are there universal values for human well-being? International experts come face to face with the assumptions about human dignity and social justice that guide efforts to rescue and repair communities in crisis. The original essays explore mandates for humanitarian...
This third volume in the pioneering series, International Humanitarian Affairs, goes beyond the practical to address fundamental questions at the hear...
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136,53 zł |
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Technology for Humanitarian Action
ISBN: 9780823223930 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humanitarian workers around the world struggle under dangerous conditions. Yet many do not have the technological tools readily available elsewhere to help them realize their mission to provide essential services and save lives.This book, the fruit of a historic conference, is a practical guide to current technologies that can help relief and humanitarian aid workers succeed. Designed to facilitate needed technology transfer to the humanitarian sector, the essays focus on areas where technology is underused and predict where new technological advances may be applied to relief efforts.The...
Humanitarian workers around the world struggle under dangerous conditions. Yet many do not have the technological tools readily available elsewhere to...
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365,83 zł |
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Technology for Humanitarian Action
ISBN: 9780823223947 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humanitarian workers around the world struggle under dangerous conditions. Yet many do not have the technological tools readily available elsewhere to help them realize their mission to provide essential services and save lives.This book, the fruit of a historic conference, is a practical guide to current technologies that can help relief and humanitarian aid workers succeed. Designed to facilitate needed technology transfer to the humanitarian sector, the essays focus on areas where technology is underused and predict where new technological advances may be applied to relief efforts.The...
Humanitarian workers around the world struggle under dangerous conditions. Yet many do not have the technological tools readily available elsewhere to...
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151,21 zł |
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Managing Water Supply and Sanitation in Emergencies
ISBN: 9780855983789 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this practical guide is to provide relief workers with a range of strategies for dealing with the environmental health problems they are likely to encounter in emergency situations. It sets out guidelines for good practice and promotes an approach to public-health engineering which aims to involve and strengthen the people affected by the emergency.
The aim of this practical guide is to provide relief workers with a range of strategies for dealing with the environmental health problems they are li...
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99,73 zł |
![Humanitarian Programmes and HIV and AIDS: A Practical Approach to Mainstreaming [With CD] Vivien Margaret Walden Marion O'Reilly Mary Yetter 9780855985622 Oxfam](/9780855985622_humanitarian_programmes_and_hiv_and_aids_a_practical_approach_to_mainstreaming_with_cd_audio.jpg "Humanitarian Programmes and HIV and AIDS: A Practical Approach to Mainstreaming [With CD]") |
Humanitarian Programmes and HIV and AIDS: A Practical Approach to Mainstreaming [With CD]
ISBN: 9780855985622 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This user-friendly manual draws on field experience from Oxfam and other agencies, offering recommendations on how to mainstream HIV/AIDS in emergencies. A tried and tested resource for training and guiding field staff, it features a number of cases studies including experiences in West Africa and Aceh.
The highly practical manual contains guidance on how to mainstream throughout the emergency project cycle and includes checklists, case histories, and planning tools, in accessible language and presentation. A CD-ROM to accompanies the manual features training materials for use in... This user-friendly manual draws on field experience from Oxfam and other agencies, offering recommendations on how to mainstream HIV/AIDS in emergenci...
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99,73 zł |
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Public Safety Diving
ISBN: 9780912212944 / Angielski / Miękka / 351 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for instructors, dive team captains, surface teams, and underwater personnel alike, this book offers definitive information on procedures for safe operations, proper methods of training, and how to make appropriate purchasing decisions. Various techniques and types of equipment are discussed and assessed. Included also are chapters on methods of search in black water, swift water, and contaminated water, as well as techniques for evidence recovery.
Written for instructors, dive team captains, surface teams, and underwater personnel alike, this book offers definitive information on procedures for ...
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239,01 zł |
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Methods of Disaster Research
ISBN: 9781401079703 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these methods must be applied under unique circumstances. Researchers new to this field need to understand how the disaster context affects the application of the methods of research. This volume, written by some of the world's leading specialists in disaster research, provides for the first time a primer on disaster research methods. Among the topics covered are qualitative field studies and survey research; underutilized approaches such as cross-national studies, simulations, and...
The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these methods must be applied under unique ...
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123,43 zł |
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Methods of Disaster Research
ISBN: 9781401079710 / Angielski / Twarda / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these methods must be applied under unique circumstances. Researchers new to this field need to understand how the disaster context affects the application of the methods of research. This volume, written by some of the world's leading specialists in disaster research, provides for the first time a primer on disaster research methods. Among the topics covered are qualitative field studies and survey research; underutilized approaches such as cross-national studies, simulations, and...
The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these methods must be applied under unique ...
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169,17 zł |
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GIS for Emergency Preparedness and Health Risk Reduction
ISBN: 9781402007996 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now provide powerful tools for the capture, manipulation, integration, interrogation, modelling, analysis and visualisation of data - tools that are already used for policy support in a wide range of areas at almost all geographic and administrative levels. This holds especially for emergency preparedness and health risk reduction, which are all essentially spatial problems. To date, however, many initiatives have remained disconnected and uncoordinated, leading to less powerful, less compatible and less widely...
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now provide powerful tools for the capture, manipulation, integratio...
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605,23 zł |
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Gifts From America: The Remarkable Record of Aid and Assistance the United States Offers the World
ISBN: 9781410787958 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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109,53 zł |
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Gifts From America: The Remarkable Record of Aid and Assistance the United States Offers the World
ISBN: 9781410787965 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,74 zł |
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Disaster Management Handbook
ISBN: 9781420058628 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using a case-based approach, Disaster Management Handbook is a comprehensive reference that shares firsthand accounts and theoretical analyses of disasters and the interrelated issues of disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. It provides in-depth examinations of both man-made disasters--such as airplane crashes, computer network hacking, and terrorism--as well as earthquakes, floods, tsunamis and other natural or environmental disasters. This book provides the necessary understanding of concepts and offers helpful insights to assist practitioners in crafting constructive...
Using a case-based approach, Disaster Management Handbook is a comprehensive reference that shares firsthand accounts and theoretical analyses of disa...
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658,50 zł |
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