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  • Post-Tsunami Hazard

    Reconstruction and Restoration

    Edición de V. Santiago-Fandiño, Y.A. Kontar, Y. Kaneda ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This monograph focuses on a variety of topics related to reconstruction and restoration in post-tsunami conditions. Aspects such as coastal engineering, early warning systems and technological approaches, urban planning and settlements relocation, socio-economic redevelopment and policy, coastal ecosystems and agricultural redevelopment as well as pollution assessment are included. The reader will ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • Are Trams Socialist?

    Why Britain Has No Transport Policy

    de Christian Wolmar ...
    Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Planning Australia

    An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning

    de Susan Thompson, Paul Maginn ...
    Planning Australia provides a comprehensive introduction to the major issues and activities that constitute urban and regional planning in Australia today. Incorporating contemporary theory and practice, it contextualises planning in terms of its theoretical, ideological and professional foundations. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, underpinned by the principles of ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Floods in a Megacity

    Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

    de Ashraf Dewan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly in urban agglomerations of 10 million people or more, floods could cause widespread ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Risk Governance

    The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

    Edición de Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... Leer más

    $143.09 USD

  • Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies

    Edición de Harry W. Richardson, Qisheng Pan, JiYoung Park, James E. Moore II ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps to estimate the economic impact of simulated terrorist attacks on seaports, malls etc. as well as of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The authors also analyze the economic and social effects of metropolitan policies such as growth controls, neighborhood ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future

    Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the International Geographical Union Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013

    Edición de Kohei Okamoto, Yoshitaka Ishikawa ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The title of this book, Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future, is from the theme of the 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union. Over the past few decades, globalization has strengthened connections among countries and regions of the world and has greatly changed existing geographies. However, this trend has also fostered various problems on ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Earthquake Hazard Impact and Urban Planning

    Edición de Maria Bostenaru Dan, Iuliana Armas, Agostino Goretti ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The classical field dealing with earthquakes is called “earthquake engineering” and considered to be a branch of structural engineering. In projects dealing with strategies for earthquake risk mitigation, urban planning approaches are often neglected. Today interventions are needed on a city, rather than a building, scale. This work deals with the impact of earthquakes, including also a broader ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management

    Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done

    de Asmita Tiwari ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    How can a place be built and managed so that it is safe for people to live? Ironically, many governments and citizens keep on asking the same question after every new disaster. Why, even with high levels of investment in increasing government’s capacity to manage disasters, do the impacts of disasters continue to increase? What can the governments do differently? What is the role of local ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation

    Sectoral Analysis

    Edición de Bin Su, Elspeth Thomson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study how best to achieve green growth and a low-carbon transition in a developing country like China. The progress of China’s carbon mitigation policies also has significant impacts on the on-going international climate change negotiations. Therefore, both ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Resilience and Sustainability in Relation to Natural Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities

    Edición de Gaetano Manfredi, Domenico Asprone, Paolo Gasparini ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding fast. As a result, cities and their inhabitants are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic natural events such as extreme weather events (recently more frequent and intense as a result of the ongoing climate changes), earthquakes, tsunamis or man-induced events such as ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Global Sustainability, Cultural Perspectives and Challenges for Transdisciplinary Integrated Research

    Edición de Benno Werlen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers new perspectives of transdisciplinary research, in methodological as well as theoretical respects. It provides insights in the two-fold bio-physical and the socio-cultural global embeddedness of local living conditions on the basis of selected empirical studies from Latin America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe. The theoretical foundations of ecological research and ... Leer más

    $107.09 USD