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Book Hazard Area Disclosure in New Zealand

Download or read book Hazard Area Disclosure in New Zealand written by Burrell E. Montz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Natural Hazards

    Book Details:
  • Author : Burrell E. Montz
  • Publisher : Guilford Publications
  • Release : 2017-04-21
  • ISBN : 1462529208
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Natural Hazards written by Burrell E. Montz and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters? What human and structural factors need to be addressed to explain hazard vulnerability? As populations grow and the climate warms, how can natural hazards be mitigated? Thoroughly revised and updated, and now with a more global perspective, the second edition of this accessible text provides an integrated framework for understanding and managing natural hazards. Numerous case studies from around the world illustrate the complexities of extreme geophysical events and highlight their physical, social, political, and economic dimensions. The text identifies essential principles for tackling the fundamental causes of differential vulnerabilities that perpetuate human distress, and for promoting recovery and resilience. New to This Edition *New frameworks for understanding human resilience and adaptive capacity in recovery, dynamics of risk and uncertainty, and more. *Chapter on spatial and temporal aspects of hazards. *Discussions of cutting-edge topics, such as chronic disasters, controversies in international aid, and how hazards affect regions differentially. *Many new case studies, including Hurricanes Katrina and Charley, Superstorm Sandy, the 2011 Japan tsunami, Ecuador's chronic volcanic hazard, and others. *Reflects 20 years of research advances across the physical and social sciences, development trends, new technologies, and ongoing global climate change.

Book Community Bushfire Safety

Download or read book Community Bushfire Safety written by John Handmer and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2008-02-13 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Bushfire Safety brings together in one accessible and comprehensive volume the results of the most important community safety research being undertaken within the Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre (CRC). Using perspectives deriving from social science, economics and law, it complements the extensive literature already existing on bushfires, which ranges from ecology and fire behaviour to information about emergency management. In doing so, the book supports the increasing emphasis on community safety and the vital role it has to play in Australian bushfire management. Managing community safety requires a diversity of knowledge and an understanding of the many social processes that shape and ultimately determine a community’s resilience to bushfire. The wide range of issues covered in this volume reflects this diversity, including research into gender and vulnerability; the law and its implications for public/fire agency interactions; the arsonist’s rationale; the influence of the media; the role of economics in bushfire management and decision-making; understanding declines in fire brigade volunteerism; bushfire safety policy and its implementation; the effectiveness of community education and risk reduction schemes; and modes of building ignition. Community Bushfire Safety is accessible to practitioners, policy-makers, researchers and students. While the research reported has been undertaken in Australia, much of the material is generic and is likely to be relevant and useful to those dealing with community bushfire safety elsewhere in the world.

Book Living in the Aftermath

Download or read book Living in the Aftermath written by Brenda Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Property Rights and Climate Change

Download or read book Property Rights and Climate Change written by Fennie van Straalen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Property Rights and Climate Change explores the multifarious relationships between different types of climate-driven environmental changes and property rights. This original contribution to the literature examines such climate changes through the lens of property rights, rather than through the lens of land use planning. The inherent assumption pursued is that the different types of environmental changes, with their particular effects and impact on land use, share common issues regarding the relation between the social construction of land via property rights and the dynamics of a changing environment. Making these common issues explicit and discussing the different approaches to them is the central objective of this book. Through examining a variety of cases from the Arctic to the Australian coast, the contributors take a transdisciplinary look at the winners and losers of climate change, discuss approaches to dealing with changing environmental conditions, and stimulate pathways for further research. This book is essential reading for lawyers, planners, property rights experts and environmentalists.

Book Convergence Revisited

Download or read book Convergence Revisited written by Joseph Scanlon and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Monthly Checklist of State Publications

Download or read book Monthly Checklist of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual index to the monographs appears early in the following year.

Book The Public Policy Response to Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina

Download or read book The Public Policy Response to Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina written by Elliott Mittler and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coping With Flash Floods

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eve Gruntfest
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2001-01-31
  • ISBN : 9780792368250
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Coping With Flash Floods written by Eve Gruntfest and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-01-31 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Ravello, Italy, 8-17 November 1999

Book Sponge Cities  Emerging Approaches  Challenges and Opportunities

Download or read book Sponge Cities Emerging Approaches Challenges and Opportunities written by Chris Zevenbergen and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Sponge Cities: Emerging Approaches, Challenges and Opportunities" that was published in Water

Book Abstracts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Association of American Geographers. Meeting
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Abstracts written by Association of American Geographers. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Natural Hazards Observer

Download or read book Natural Hazards Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Natural Disaster Management in Korea

Download or read book Natural Disaster Management in Korea written by Wook-Joong Kim and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accessions Checklist  Colorado State Publications

Download or read book Accessions Checklist Colorado State Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sullivan s Island  South Carolina

Download or read book Sullivan s Island South Carolina written by Jamie W. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Research in Geographic Education

Download or read book Research in Geographic Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: