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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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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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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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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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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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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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![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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The State of Emergency Management 2000: The Process of Emergency Management Professionalizaiton in the United States and Florida
ISBN: 9781581121230 / Angielski / Miękka / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This dissertation analyzes the current status of emergency management professionalization in the United States and Florida using a qualitative case study. I investigate the efforts of various organizations at the national and state levels in the private and public sectors to organize emergency management as a profession. I conceptualize emergency management professionalization as occurring in two phases: the indirect institutionalization of the occupation of emergency management and the formal advancement toward an emergency management profession. The legislative, organizational, and...
This dissertation analyzes the current status of emergency management professionalization in the United States and Florida using a qualitative case st...
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UK Aid Policy and Practice 1974-90: An Analysis of the Poverty-Focus, Gender-Consciousness and Environmental Sensitivity of British Official Aid
ISBN: 9781581121278 / Angielski / Miękka / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thesis provides a detailed analysis of UK Aid policy over the period 1974-90. Its focus is primarily upon the extent to which official aid was concerned with poverty alleviation. This theme permitted a comparison to be made between the records of the Labour administration of 1974-79 and the Conservative administration of 1979-90. A quantitative comparison is made of the two aid programmes. The philosophical, moral and ideological aspects of the British aid programme are explored. Two themes in particular are studied in depth: aid and gender and aid and the environment.
This thesis provides a detailed analysis of UK Aid policy over the period 1974-90. Its focus is primarily upon the extent to which official aid was co...
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Command and Control of Disaster Operations
ISBN: 9781581126594 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally written as a study guide to assist individuals preparing for the Certified Crisis Operations Manager examination, this volume provides a reference manual for emergency managers on the organizational structures, facilities, and procedures used to manage disaster response operations. The focus is on management of operations during the period immediately prior to disaster onset, the event impact, and the immediate post impact period. Topics covered include the Incident Command System, Command Posts, Emergency Operations Center facilities and organization, emergency plans and guidance...
Originally written as a study guide to assist individuals preparing for the Certified Crisis Operations Manager examination, this volume provides a re...
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Agroterrorism : A Guide for First Responders
ISBN: 9781585445721 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In many cases, the communities most ill-prepared to deal with . . . terrorism incidents," Jason B. Moats writes in the introduction to this book, "are the rural communities that provide . . . food and crops." Having conducted training across the country for first responders in cities, small towns, and rural communities, Moats for the first time gathers here the knowledge gleaned from research and nearly twenty years' experience in emergency services and emergency training.
Whether used in the field or in the classroom, this manual is designed to help rural communities prepare for an act... "In many cases, the communities most ill-prepared to deal with . . . terrorism incidents," Jason B. Moats writes in the introduction to this book, "ar...
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Agroterrorism: A Guide for First Responders
ISBN: 9781585445868 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In many cases, the communities most ill-prepared to deal with . . . terrorism incidents," Jason B. Moats writes in the introduction to this book, "are the rural communities that provide . . . food and crops." Having conducted training across the country for first responders in cities, small towns, and rural communities, Moats for the first time gathers here the knowledge gleaned from research and nearly twenty years' experience in emergency services and emergency training.
Whether used in the field or in the classroom, this manual is designed to help rural communities prepare for an act... "In many cases, the communities most ill-prepared to deal with . . . terrorism incidents," Jason B. Moats writes in the introduction to this book, "ar...
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When Katrina Stood Down We Came Running, But Rita Tripped Us
ISBN: 9781598242683 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the only one that will take you inside the psychological aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Each heart-wrenching tale will leave you shaking your head and counting your blessings. The testimonies are forthright and will allow you to see beyond the picture that the media has painted of them. They're still in shock, still without official word of where some loved ones are, and to add insult to injury, they're having to make defiant declarations that they deserve better than what they've been getting.
This book is the only one that will take you inside the psychological aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Each heart-wrenching tale will leave y...
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