Download or read book Disaster risk reduction in school curricula case studies from thirty countries written by and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2012 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building an Emergency Plan written by and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000-02-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building an Emergency Plan provides a step-by-step guide that a cultural institution can follow to develop its own emergency preparedness and response strategy. This workbook is divided into three parts that address the three groups generally responsible for developing and implementing emergency procedures—institution directors, emergency preparedness managers, and departmental team leaders—and discuss the role each should play in devising and maintaining an effective emergency plan. Several chapters detail the practical aspects of communication, training, and forming teams to handle the safety of staff and visitors, collections, buildings, and records. Emergencies covered include natural events such as earthquakes or floods, as well as human-caused emergencies, such as fires that occur during renovation. Examples from the Barbados Museum and Historical Society, the Museo de Arte Popular Americano in Chile, the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut, and the Seattle Art Museum show how cultural institutions have prepared for emergencies relevant to their sites, collections, and regions.
Download or read book Simulacra and Simulation written by Jean Baudrillard and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
Download or read book UNESCO General History of Africa Vol I Abridged Edition written by Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description
Download or read book Me Before You written by Jojo Moyes and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, discover the love story that captured over 20 million hearts in Me Before You, After You, and Still Me. They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose . . . Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life—steady boyfriend, close family—who has barely been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex–Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life—big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel—and now he’s pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. When she learns that Will has shocking plans of his own, she sets out to show him that life is still worth living. A Love Story for this generation and perfect for fans of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Me Before You brings to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?
Download or read book MEGA CRISES written by Ira Helsloot and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in turbulent times with continents and nations facing ever-heightening risks such as natural disasters, intense and protracted conflicts, terrorism, corporate crises, cyber threats to infrastructures and mega-events. We are witnessing the rise of mega-crises and a new class of adversity with many unknowns. The prospect of mega-crises presents professionals and students in the field of crisis management with four major tasks. First, they should engage in “deep thinking” about the causes of the increasing occurrence of mega-crises. Second, they should identify and work through the dominant trends which complicate contemporary crisis management. Third, they should upgrade institutional crisis management capacity. Fourth, they should improve societal resilience since no institutional complex can mitigate or manage these mega-crisis on its own. This book is divided into four primary parts, each of which looks at one facet of mega-crises. Part I focuses on the concept of a mega-crisis and mega-crisis management; Part II examines crisis management of mega-natural disasters; Part III evaluates crisis management of man-made mega-crises; and Part IV identifies mega-threats and vulnerabilities. Additional major topics include Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Gustav; the London Bombings; the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks of July 7, 2005; corporate meltdowns; the subprime crisis; the Olympic Games; electricity grids; global climate change; the Dutch Delta; risks to food security; and mega-crises and the Internet. This comprehensive text will provide practitioners and academics with the results of an across-the-board research effort in the prospects, nature, characteristics, and the effects of mega-crises.
Download or read book Culture urban future written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report presents a series of analyses and recommendations for fostering the role of culture for sustainable development. Drawing on a global survey implemented with nine regional partners and insights from scholars, NGOs and urban thinkers, the report offers a global overview of urban heritage safeguarding, conservation and management, as well as the promotion of cultural and creative industries, highlighting their role as resources for sustainable urban development. Report is intended as a policy framework document to support governments in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Urban Development and the New Urban Agenda.
Download or read book Ecritures digitales written by Claire Clivaz and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecritures digitales aims to demonstrate how digital writing, as new technology, contributes to the emergence of a reconfigured relationship between the human body and the machines, and how this transition influences the Jewish-Christian textual corpus referred to as "the Scriptures". Ecritures digitales souhaite démontrer de quelle manière l'écriture digitale, en tant que nouvelle technologie, contribue à l'émergence d'une relation innovante entre le corps humain et les machines, et influence le corpus textuel judéo-chrétien désigné comme «les Ecritures».
Download or read book Commercial Nuclear Power written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Triglycidyl Isocyanurate written by D. Willcocks and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise assessment of the risks to human health and the environment posed by exposure to triglycidyl isocyanurate, a synthetic white powder or granule used mainly as a three-dimensional cross-linking or curing agent in polyester powder coatings and paints. The chemical is also used in solder mask inks in the printed circuit board industry.
Download or read book Les assurances dommages aux biens de l entreprise written by Philippe Laroche and published by L'Argus de l'Assurance Editions. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: À jour du Tome I du Traité des Risques d’Entreprises 2023 Établissant un pont entre la théorie et la pratique, cet ouvrage est destiné aux professionnels désireux d’appréhender et d’optimiser la technique d’assurance du risque d’entreprise. La première partie aborde sous l’angle opérationnel du praticien de l’assurance la méthodologie à mettre en oeuvre en matière de gestion des risques et d’analyse des vulnérabilités des entreprises. Ces vulnérabilités étant susceptibles de menacer directement ou indirectement le patrimoine des entreprises conduisent logiquement à détailler l’ensemble des garanties délivrables au sein des contrats d’assurance, tant du point de vue des dommages aux biens (incendie, bris de machine, pertes d’exploitation...) que des responsabilités civiles rattachées aux contrats de Dommages aux Biens. La seconde partie, qui intègre la nouvelle version du Tome I publié en 2023 par France Assureurs, permet de comprendre les modalités tarifaires du Traité d’assurance incendie risques d’entreprises spécifique aux risques industriels, avant d’aborder celles relatives aux pertes d’exploitation et au bris de machine. Pour une approche concrète de la souscription, l’ouvrage analyse les différents modes rédactionnels des contrats d’assurance. Des exemples concrets de tarification et de rédaction de polices sont proposés à partir d’un rapport de visite de risque. D’autres caractéristiques techniques, propres à la profession de l’assurance, sont également développées : pleins et capacités de souscription, réassurance, convention de déontologie de la coassurance 2016, assurance des établissements situés hors de France... tout comme les débats sur les pertes d’exploitation sans dommage engendrés par la crise sanitaire. Enfin, pierre angulaire de la prestation d’assurance, un chapitre spécifique est consacré aux aspects pratiques de la gestion des sinistres.
Download or read book Guide pratique de la souscription des risques industriels incendie written by Philippe Curtat and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Risques industriels written by Collectif and published by Presses universitaires de Rennes. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis une génération, de très grandes catastrophes industrielles d'ampleur internationale ont changé l'échelle que le risque industriel et technologique fait peser sur nos sociétés. Ce changement d'échelle est-il une transformation du régime de risque ou le prolongement d'un processus déjà amorcé précédemment ? C'est à une mise à distance et une historicisation du risque industriel qu'invite la lecture de cet ouvrage, fruit et partie d'une collaboration de plusieurs années entre des chercheurs de différents pays européens et des États-Unis. En effet, si la notion contemporaine de risque n'est mobilisée pour l'industrie qu'à la fin du xixe siècle, par emprunt au monde de l'assurance, un ensemble de concepts qui s'y rattachent est usuel au moins dès le xve siècle, et les autorités ont toujours mis en place des dispositifs juridiques et sociaux pour parer à ces risques. De la fin du xviie siècle aux années 1900 se déroule une séquence historique longue qui voit l'émergence de dispositifs de gestion à mesure des progrès de l'industrialisation. Les contributions de cet ouvrage interrogent les savoirs et les normes construits par des acteurs très divers, les médecins, les législateurs, les juristes, les architectes, les assureurs, les syndicalistes ou encore les industriels. Elles montrent que si les régulations du risque sont très variables et dépendent des contextes et des configurations locales, celles-ci s'inscrivent toutefois dans un mouvement général qui formalise son acceptation comme constitutive des sociétés industrielles. Cette longue durée nous protège de la tentation de ne considérer les problèmes contemporains que comme nouveaux, et donne de la profondeur à des questions essentielles qu'une approche historique ne peut qu'enrichir.
Download or read book L assurance contre l incendie sa technique sa pratique written by Michel Gautier and published by Éditions de "l'Observateur. This book was released on 1948 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ma trise du risque incendie et du risque industriel written by Assemblée plénière des sociétés d'assurances dommages (France). and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
