Download or read book Risques urbains written by Claude Collin and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pr vention et gestion des risques urbains written by Jean Brot and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Les risques urbains written by Michèle Ansidei and published by Economica. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incivilités, agressions, accidents de circulation... La ville inquiète. Longtemps domaine réservé d'un Etat normalisateur et répressif, la gestion de la sécurité suscite de plus en plus d'initiatives diverses d'élus locaux ou de milieux associatifs, d'aménageurs d'espaces publics, de sociétés de service public, ou encore de promoteurs de systèmes de surveillance, etc., y compris des victimes potentielles elles-mêmes. Mais les actions des uns et des autres s'appuient sur des connaissances partielles, voire incertaines, des risques urbains comme des comportements des individus face aux risques, et en l'absence de réelle évaluation de l'efficacité des politiques de prévention. En partenariat avec l'IHESI et la Fondation MAIF, le PIR Villes (Programme interdisciplinaire de recherche sur les villes du CNRS) a engagé deux programmes de recherche portant respectivement sur l'application des technologies d'information et de communication à la surveillance et à la prévention des risques urbains, et sur les représentations sociales des risques et les pratiques de prévention. L'objet de cet ouvrage est de faire le point sur les résultats de cette première vague de recherches. Les risques de la circulation et l'introduction des nouvelles technologies de surveillance dans l'espace urbain sont les deux grands sujets sur lesquels les équipes ont enquêté. Parties d'enjeux d'actualité divers - quartiers difficiles, vieillissement des populations, domotique - elles abordent les questions de l'apprentissage du risque et des comportements de prévention, celles de la construction du sentiment de sécurité (ou d'insécurité), ou encore celles du rôle respectif des différents acteurs locaux. S'il ne traite pas l'ensemble des risques urbains, cet ouvrage témoigne de la naissance d'un réseau scientifique interdisciplinaire à même de faire progresser le savoir en ce domaine et d'engager le dialogue avec les responsables sur le terrain de la sécurité urbaine.

Download or read book Risques naturels et am nagement en Europe written by Yvette Veyret and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La question des risques naturels (inondations, mouvements de masse, séismes) est souvent envisagée sous l'angle des aléas. Cet ouvrage, regroupant les contributions de spécialistes, insiste plus particulièrement sur les rapports existant entre les risques et l'aménagement des territoires. La réflexion concerne plusieurs pays européens et présente les comparaisons dans les modes de prévention, d'évaluation, de gestion des risques naturels en France, en Angleterre, en Suisse, en Autriche, en Italie, en Espagne, au Portugal, en Grèce, en Roumanie et en Hongrie. Les comparaisons européennes portent sur les textes de lois qui fondent la prise en compte du risque dans l'aménagement, sur les niveaux de décision et les organismes qui mettent en oeuvre les politiques de gestion des risques et sur les types de cartes utilisées pour connaître ou gérer le risque. Cet ouvrage, destiné aux spécialistes des risques, chercheurs et praticiens de l'aménagement, ouvre la voie à des études comparatives plus approfondies. Il constitue une introduction indispensable à une meilleure harmonisation de la gestion des risques à l'échelle européenne.

Download or read book Les risques urbains written by Jocelyne Dubois-Maury and published by Armand Colin. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depuis un siècle, la ville est gravement confrontée avec le risque, mais il ne s'agit plus des fléaux de naguère comme le feu et l'épidémie. La concentration urbaine des hommes et de leurs activités aggrave les effets des risques naturels et parfois les engendre. Le développement incessant de nouvelles technologies renouvelle la nature des dangers, chaque catastrophe remet en cause la vieille alliance de la ville et de l'industrie. La ville contemporaine est aussi celle où s'accumulent les frustrations et les violences sociétales, sources d'insécurité. A l'exigence des populations pour une plus grande sécurité et une meilleure information répond la responsabilité des pouvoirs publics, garants aux diverses échelles de l'intérêt général. Pour chacune de ces trois grandes catégories de risques urbains, à côté de réponses techniques, la protection et la prévention s'appuient essentiellement sur la réglementation : celle qui concerne l'affectation des sols, les diverses autorisations de les utiliser et de les gérer. L'ouvrage, à travers les regards croisés du droit, de la géographie et de l'urbanisme, dresse un diagnostic des situations à risques, constatées ou probables, puis analyse et évalue la portée effective des réponses préventives et assurancielles. Ce livre, qui intègre les récentes législations concernant la ville, s'adresse tant aux étudiants intéressés par le fait urbain qu'à tous les praticiens de l'urbanisme.

Download or read book La ville et ses dangers written by Claude Chaline and published by Elsevier Masson. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La ville, naguère a pu être considérée comme lieu de sûreté et d'urbanité. Elle tend, aujourd'hui, à apparaître comme un territoire où, d'une part, les risques naturels sont considérablement aggravés et où, d'autre part, naissent, prolifèrent les dangers venus tant des dysfonctionnements industriels que des pathologies des nouvelles sociétés urbaines. Traitant à la fois des temps historiques et de la période contemporaine, les auteurs se sont attachés à montrer comment la quête vers une plus grande sécurité urbaine et comment la prévention des divers risques - naturels, technologiques, sociaux - pesaient sur l'évolution de la conception et de la forme urbaine. Tour à tour ont été analysées les principales réponses opposées aux trois principales catégories de risques : réponses des gestionnaires dans un contexte de décentralisation, réponses des services de secours, réponses techniques des ingénieurs. Toutefois une attention toute particulière a été donnée aux aspects législatifs et réglementaires de la prévention de chacun des risques urbains ainsi qu'aux réponses nouvelles émanant du secteur assurantiel. En dépit des progrès accomplis dans la maîtrise des occurrences de danger, la catastrophe demeure toujours du domaine du possible et le risque zéro n'est toujours qu'un objectif auquel ne cesse de s'opposer le principe d'incertitude. Il convenait donc d'inclure aussi dans cet ouvrage de synthèse les réponses des organisations ayant la charge de gérer les situations de crise, tout comme le devoir d'informer et de responsabiliser chaque citadin.

Download or read book Philosophy in a Time of Terror written by Giovanna Borradori and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for Philosophy in a Time of Terror was born hours after the attacks on 9/11 and was realized just weeks later when Giovanna Borradori sat down with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida in New York City, in separate interviews, to evaluate the significance of the most destructive terrorist act ever perpetrated. This book marks an unprecedented encounter between two of the most influential thinkers of our age as here, for the first time, Habermas and Derrida overcome their mutual antagonism and agree to appear side by side. As the two philosophers disassemble and reassemble what we think we know about terrorism, they break from the familiar social and political rhetoric increasingly polarized between good and evil. In this process, we watch two of the greatest intellects of the century at work.

Download or read book Water and Land Security in Drylands written by Mohamed Ouessar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents recent lessons learned in the context of research and development for various dryland ecosystems, focusing on water resources management, land and vegetation cover degradation and remediation, and socioeconomic aspects, as well as integrated approaches to ensuring water and land security in view of the current and predicted climate change. As water and land are the essential bases of food production, the management of these natural resources is becoming a cornerstone for the development of dryland populations. The book gathers the peer-reviewed, revised versions of the most outstanding papers on these topics presented at the ILDAC2015 Conference in Djerba, Tunisia.

Download or read book Publishers International ISBN Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Agroclimatology written by Jerry L. Hatfield and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-22 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can we unlock resilience to climate stress by better understanding linkages between the environment and biological systems? Agroclimatology allows us to explore how different processes determine plant response to climate and how climate drives the distribution of crops and their productivity. Editors Jerry L. Hatfield, Mannava V.K. Sivakumar, and John H. Prueger have taken a comprehensive view of agroclimatology to assist and challenge researchers in this important area of study. Major themes include: principles of energy exchange and climatology, understanding climate change and agriculture, linkages of specific biological systems to climatology, the context of pests and diseases, methods of agroclimatology, and the application of agroclimatic principles to problem-solving in agriculture.

Download or read book Desertification in the Mediterranean Region A Security Issue written by W.G. Kepner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-12-05 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desertification in the Mediterranean Region: a Security Issue 1 2 William G. Kepner & José Luis Rubio 1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, P.O. Box 93478, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 89193-3478 ([email protected]) 2. Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificacion-CIDE, (CSIC, Universitat de Valencia, Generalitat Valenciana),Cami de la Marjal, s/n Apartado Oficial, 46470 Albal, Valencia, Spain ([email protected]) Security issues related to desertification in the Mediterranean Region were the subject of a special NATO workshop held on 2-5 December 2003 at the Museum of Sciences Principe Felipe in Valencia, Spain. This workshop was organized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Las Vegas, Nevada, USA), Centre for Desertification Research (Valencia, Spain), and the Desert Research Institute (Reno, Nevada, USA) on behalf of the NATO Science Committee and the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (Public Diplomacy Division). Additionally, the European Society for Soil Conservation participated as a collaborating institution. Other participating institutions included the Spanish Ministry of Environment, Generalitat Valencia (Department of Territory and Housing), the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the City of Art & Sciences of Valencia which hosted the Meeting.

Download or read book Risk Governance written by Ortwin Renn and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk Governance is a tour de force. Every risk manager, every risk analyst, every risk researcher must read this book - it is the demarcation point for all further advances in risk policy and risk research. Renn provides authoritative guidance on how to manage risks based on a definitive synthesis of the research literature. The skill with which he builds practical recommendations from solid science is unprecedented. Thomas Dietz, Director, Environmental Science and Policy Program, Michigan State University, USA A masterpiece of new knowledge and wisdom with illustrative examples of tested applications to realworld cases. The book is recommendable also to interested students in different disciplines as a timely textbook on 'risk beyond risk'. Norio Okada, Full Professor and Director at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Japan There are classic environmental works such as The Tragedy of the Commons by Hardin, Risk Society by Beck, The Theory of Communicative Action by Habermas, and the seminal volumes by Ostrom on governing the commons. Renns book fits right into this series of important milestones of environmental studies. Jochen Jaeger, Professor at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Risk Governance provides a valuable survey of the whole field of risk and demonstrates how scientific, economic, political and civil society actors can participate in inclusive risk governance. Jobst Conrad, Senior Scientist, Social Science Research Center Berlin, Germany Renn offers a remarkably fair-minded and systematic approach to bringing together the diverse fields that have something to say about 'risk'. Risk Governance moves us along the path from the noisy, formative stage of thinking about risk to one with a stronger empirical, theoretical, and analytical foundation. Baruch Fischhoff, PhD, Howard Heinz University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA 'I cannot describe how impressed I am at the breadth and coherence of Renn's career's work! Written with remarkable clarity and minimal technical jargon... [this] should be required reading in risk courses!' John Graham, former director of the Harvard Risk Center and former deputy director of the Office of Budget and Management of the Unites States Administration This book, for the first time, brings together and updates the groundbreaking work of renowned risk theorist and researcher Ortwin Renn, integrating the major disciplinary concepts of risk in the social, engineering and natural sciences. The book opens with the context of risk handling before flowing through the core topics of assessment, evaluation, perception, management and communication, culminating in a look at the transition from risk management to risk governance and a glimpse at a new understanding of risk in (post)modern societies.

Download or read book Social Sustainability Past and Future written by Sander van der Leeuw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel, integrated approach to understanding long-term human history, viewing it as the long-term evolution of human information-processing. This title is also available as Open Access.

Download or read book Literary Translation Reception and Transfer written by Norbert Bachleitner and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three concepts mentioned in the title of this volume imply the contact between two or more literary phenomena; they are based on similarities that are related to a form of ‘travelling’ and imitation or adaptation of entire texts, genres, forms or contents. Transfer comprises all sorts of ‘travelling’, with translation as a major instrument of transferring literature across linguistic and cultural barriers. Transfer aims at the process of communication, starting with the source product and its cultural context and then highlighting the mediation by certain agents and institutions to end up with inclusion in the target culture. Reception lays its focus on the receiving culture, especially on critcism, reading, and interpretation. Translation, therefore, forms a major factor in reception with the general aim of reception studies being to reveal the wide spectrum of interpretations each text offers. Moreover, translations are the prime instrument in the distribution of literature across linguistic and cultural borders; thus, they pave the way for gaining prestige in the world of literature. The thirty-eight papers included in this volume and dedicated to research in this area were previously read at the ICLA conference 2016 in Vienna. They are ample proof that the field remains at the center of interest in Comparative Literature.

Download or read book Insect Viruses written by Byrony C Bonning and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2006-09-22 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baculoviruses are perhaps unique among viruses in the breadth of their biotechnological applications: these insect specific viruses are used not only for insect pest management purposes, but also as laboratory research tools for production of recombinant proteins and for protein display, and as potential vectors for human gene therapy. In addition to highlighting recent advances, this volume provides a comprehensive review of the biotechnological applications of these and other insect viruses in both the academic and private sectors.

Download or read book European Cohesion Policy written by Willem Molle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only comprehensive text available for advanced study and professional reference, this book brings much needed clarity to both the theoretical and practical aspects of EU intervention. Integrating both theoretical and practical research in a clear and accessible structure, covering economic, social and territorial issues European Cohesion Policy provides a systematic view of the various stages of the whole policy cycle, looking in detail at: the evolution of the problems the design of the policy system the implementation in practice the evaluation of effects . An authoritative analysis of the problems and debates involved, European Cohesion Policy is essential reading for students, policy makers, development workers and researchers working in all aspects of European policy.

Download or read book Characterization Treatment and Use of Sewage Sludge written by P. L'Hermite and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the Second European Symposium held in Vienna, Austria, 21-23 October, 1980