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Hygiene Promotion: A Practical Manual for Relief and Development
ISBN: 9781853396410 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a fully revised new edition of this acclaimed practical manual.
Indispensable for fieldworkers on projects or programs aiming to reduce the incidence of water-and-sanitation-related diseases, this book will also be useful for other relief and development workers, particularly those working in the fields of community development, health, and engineering. The authors describe a wide range of approaches to hygiene promotion that can be used in different settings. Central to these approaches is a commitment to working in collaboration with people and encouraging them... This is a fully revised new edition of this acclaimed practical manual.
Indispensable for fieldworkers on projects or programs aiming to re... |
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Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People
ISBN: 9781853839634 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors critically examine vulnerability as a concept that is vital to the way we understand the impact and magnitude of disasters. The book is a counterbalance to technocratic approaches that limit themselves to simply looking at natural phenomena. Through the notion of vulnerability the authors stress the importance of social processes and human-environmental interactions as causal agents in the making of disasters. They critically examine what renders communities unsafe, a condition they argue depends primarily on the relative position of advantage or disadvantage that a particular...
The authors critically examine vulnerability as a concept that is vital to the way we understand the impact and magnitude of disasters. The book is a ...
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873,24 |
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Mapping Vulnerability: Disasters, Development and People
ISBN: 9781853839641 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture, and infrastructure. So what can be done? The key to understanding the causes of disasters and mitigating their impacts is the concept of 'vulnerability'. Mapping Vulnerability analyses 'vulnerability' as a concept central to the way we understand disasters and their magnitude and impact. Written and edited by a distinguished group of disaster scholars and practitioners, this book is a...
Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause ...
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274,12 |
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Enduring Geohazards in the Caribbean: Moving from the Reactive to the Proactive
ISBN: 9789766402044 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Landslides and flooding in the Caribbean are destructive, endemic forces that destroy homes, businesses and schools, cost millions of dollars annually and kill hundreds of men, women and children. This book promotes a holistic approach for managing geohazards in the region. It emphasizes a preventive, proactive approach rather than a reactive one. It demonstrates and evaluates the use of current approaches and technologies such as geographical information science, remote sensing and geographical positioning systems for managing geohazards. The book is structured in three parts: the first...
Landslides and flooding in the Caribbean are destructive, endemic forces that destroy homes, businesses and schools, cost millions of dollars annually...
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224,47 |
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Advances in Biological and Chemical Terrorism Countermeasures
ISBN: 9781420076547 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biological and chemical weapons are a growing terrorist threat to the United States and other nations and countermeasures continue to evolve as a national and global priority issue. To keep up with this rapidly changing and vital field we must establish the current state-of-the-science on countermeasures to form a platform from which to offer perspectives, policies, and procedures that will assist the United States and other nations to defend themselves from future threats.
An up-to-date assessment of the technologies and strategies for providing countermeasures to biological and chemical... Biological and chemical weapons are a growing terrorist threat to the United States and other nations and countermeasures continue to evolve as a nati...
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954,48 |
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Capitalizing on Catastrophe: Neoliberal Strategies in Disaster Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780759111028 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Capitalizing on Catastrophe an international group of scholars and professionals critically examine how local communities around the world have prepared for and responded to recent cataclysms. The book's principal focus is the increasing trend to rely on the private sector to deal with natural disasters and other forms of large-scale devastation, from hurricanes and tsunamis to civil wars and industrial accidents. Called 'disaster capitalism' by its critics, the tendency to contract private interests to solve massive, urgent public problems may be inevitable but is extremely...
In Capitalizing on Catastrophe an international group of scholars and professionals critically examine how local communities around the world have pre...
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647,64 |
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Disaster Response and Homeland Security: What Works, What Doesn't
ISBN: 9780804759724 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hurricane Katrina is the latest in a series of major disasters that were not well managed, but it is not likely to be the last. Category 4 and category 5 hurricanes will, according to most predictions, become both more frequent and more intense in the future due to global warming and/or natural weather cycles. In addition, it is often said that another terrorist attack on the United States is inevitable; that it is a question of when, not whether. Add to that the scare over a possible avian flu pandemic. As a result, the United States should expect that disaster response--to natural and other...
Hurricane Katrina is the latest in a series of major disasters that were not well managed, but it is not likely to be the last. Category 4 and categor...
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94,75 |
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Data Against Natural Disasters
ISBN: 9780821374528 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, the world has seen both massive destruction caused by natural disasters and immense financial and physical support for the victims of these calamities. So that these natural hazards do not become manmade disasters, effective systems are required to identify needs, manage data, and help calibrate responses. If well designed, such systems can help coordinate the influx of aid to ensure the timely and efficient delivery of assistance to those who need it most. 'Data Against Natural Disasters' seeks to provide the analytical tools needed to enhance national capacity for disaster...
In recent years, the world has seen both massive destruction caused by natural disasters and immense financial and physical support for the victims of...
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199,75 |
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Leadership When the Sky Falls: Leadership Lessons from the Shuttle Columbia Disaster
ISBN: 9781434361073 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why write a book about leadership in times of crisis? Because it is needed. Disaster and large-scale incidents are growing in size, scope, and intensity on the American landscape. With this growth comes the commensurate need for good leadership during those times of crisis. Leaders who function well in a normal daily environment often find crisis leadership challenging. Pressure, time, and intensity freeze some leaders while it frees others. This book is a true story about team effort and leadership accomplished with excellence in the midst of a national crisis. It challenges the reader to...
Why write a book about leadership in times of crisis? Because it is needed. Disaster and large-scale incidents are growing in size, scope, and intensi...
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53,84 |
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Essentials in Emergency Management: Including the All-Hazards Approach
ISBN: 9780865876323 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written for both paid and volunteer emergency managers, Essentials in Emergency Management examines why preparing a basic emergency plan, or "all hazards" plan, for a city, town, or state improves a community's ability to respond more quickly and effectively in an emergency situation than any attempt to prepare dozens of hazard-specific plans. Outlining the various roles and responsibilities that emergency managers have in today's world, author Brian Gallant covers many of the issues these managers encounter and provides recommendations and general guidance they can incorporate into any...
Written for both paid and volunteer emergency managers, Essentials in Emergency Management examines why preparing a basic emergency plan, or "all haza...
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547,20 |
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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
ISBN: 9780060898779 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation. What can you do when it all hits the fan? You can learn to be self-sufficient and survive without the system. "I've started to look at the world through apocalypse eyes." So begins Neil Strauss's harrowing new book: his first full-length work since the international bestseller The Game, and one of the most original-and provocative-narratives of the year. After the last few years of violence and terror, of ethnic and religious hatred, of... Terrorist attacks. Natural disasters. Domestic crackdowns. Economic collapse. Riots. Wars. Disease. Starvation. What can you do when it all ... |
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78,92 |
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Overcoming Katrina: African American Voices from the Crescent City and Beyond
ISBN: 9780230608702 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Overcoming Katrina tells the stories of 27 New Orleanians as they fought to survive Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Their oral histories offer first-hand experiences: three days on a roof with Navy veteran Leonard Smith; at the convention center with waitress Eleanor Thornton; and with Willie Pitford, an elevator man, as he rescued 150 people in New Orleans East. Overcoming approaches the question of why New Orleans matters, from perspectives of the individuals who lived, loved, worked, and celebrated life and death there prior to being scattered across the country by Hurricane Katrina....
Overcoming Katrina tells the stories of 27 New Orleanians as they fought to survive Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Their oral histories offer fi...
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206,44 |
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Another Day in Paradise: Front Line Stories from International Aid Workers
ISBN: 9781844070343 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Another Day in Paradise" is an anthology of first-person stories by international aid workers. Written by active aid workers and spanning the "hot spots" of the globe from Afghanistan to Cambodia, Rwanda to Vietnam and Ecuador to Bosnia, these stories tel
"Another Day in Paradise" is an anthology of first-person stories by international aid workers. Written by active aid workers and spanning the "hot sp...
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263,97 |
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Where Soldiers Fear To Tread : At Work in the Fields of Anarchy
ISBN: 9780099464990 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in Somalia, a place where the only authority comes from a loaded gun. Held at gunpoint by a child soldier, watc
In 1998, on the lookout for adventure and willing to take a risk, John Burnett left the comforts of the mainstream and became a UN relief worker in So...
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85,46 |
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Disaster Policy & Emergency Management in Russia: Theory & Practice
ISBN: 9781560724216 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many decades federal emergency and disaster policy and management has been an important but one of the least publicised and studied aspects of the national policy in the former Soviet Union. This book discusses major disasters which were unknown to anyone except in very limited official circles. Also discussed is the historical and legal development of the emergency management system in the former Soviet Union/current Russia and the impacted populations themselves.
For many decades federal emergency and disaster policy and management has been an important but one of the least publicised and studied aspects of the...
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496,99 |
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Federal Disaster Policies After Terrorists Strike: Issues & Options
ISBN: 9781590338520 / Angielski / Twarda / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book collects and examines information on federal policies that would be implemented in the event that terrorist attacks occur again. It then asks about each of these policies: Based on experiences gained thus far, should Congress consider changes in federal consequence management policies to address the effects of possible future attacks? The book explores two types of issues-selected administrative issues pertinent to delivery of assistance, and selected policy issues about the assistance provided. The 12 section in the book follow a common format: an issue statement, background...
This book collects and examines information on federal policies that would be implemented in the event that terrorist attacks occur again. It then ask...
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283,21 |
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Catastrophic Disasters in America: Preparedness, Response & Recovery System
ISBN: 9781604560701 / Angielski / Twarda / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The three basic elements in preparing for, responding to and recovering from any catastrophic disaster are: leadership; capabilities; and accountability. This book states that leadership in the form of legal authorities, roles and responsibilities, and lin
The three basic elements in preparing for, responding to and recovering from any catastrophic disaster are: leadership; capabilities; and accountabili...
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1255,91 |
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So Others May Live: Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
ISBN: 9781599211596 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. So Others May Live is the untold story of the U.S. Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers. From deep ocean caves on the Oregon coast to the panicked and chaotic streets of post-Katrina New Orleans, here are their stunningly heroic stories. In startlingly clear and exceptional writing, Martha LaGuardia-Kotite tells twelve heroic stories of the greatest maritime rescues attempted since the program began in 1985. These feats, told through the eyes of the heroes, reveal an understanding of how and why the rescuer, with flight crew assistance, risks his or her own life to reach out to...
So Others May Live is the untold story of the U.S. Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers. From deep ocean caves on the Oregon coast to the ...
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66,92 |
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Peacekeeping and the UN Agencies
ISBN: 9780714644516 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The speed, impact and extent of humanitarian emergencies - many of them militarized - has broadened the compass as well as increased the number of United Nations peacekeeping missions. As peace support operations, humanitarian intervention and other variants of traditional peacekeeping arise, practitioners and analyists have struggled to keep pace, conceptually as well as operationally.
The speed, impact and extent of humanitarian emergencies - many of them militarized - has broadened the compass as well as increased the number of Uni...
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279,20 |
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Humanitarian Response Index 2008: Donor Accountability in Humanitarian Action
ISBN: 9780230221963 / Angielski / Miękka / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every year, millions of people need humanitarian assistance to survive and recover from disasters and conflicts. However, despite the best of intentions, the response of the different actors who fund and implement humanitarian assistance is not enough. As the principal providers of humanitarian assistance funding, donor governments have the power to make the humanitarian system more effective, and ensure that aid reaches the people who need it most.
The Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) provides an independent and objective examination of donor performance with the aim of improving the... Every year, millions of people need humanitarian assistance to survive and recover from disasters and conflicts. However, despite the best of intentio...
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206,44 |
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