In Famine (1981), a collection of essays by experts from the developing world and advanced agricultural societies, the authors share their ecological perspectives and provide an insight into the multiple causes of famine.
In Famine (1981), a collection of essays by experts from the developing world and advanced agricultural societies, the authors share their ecological perspectives and provide an insight into the multiple causes of famine.
America's three most recent wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq have raised profound questions about when to use military force, for what purpose, and who should make the decision whether to go to war.
War is at a tipping point: we're passing from the age ofindustrial warfare to a new era of computerised warfare, and a renewed risk ofgreat-power conflict.
Criticism that the development sector has not delivered in terms of eliminating extreme poverty, fast-tracking growth and preventing conflict, is neither new nor surprising.
Criticism that the development sector has not delivered in terms of eliminating extreme poverty, fast-tracking growth and preventing conflict, is neither new nor surprising.
This book considers how basic income could be used as a mechanism for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in African agrarian societies.
A compelling and definitive account of why we need to radically rethink our approach to dealing with catastrophic events Catastrophic events such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the Tohoku "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that hit the eastern seaboard of Japan in 2012 are seen as surprises that have a low probability of occurring but have a debilitating impact when they do.
For over 150 years, the Red Cross has brought succour to the world's needy, from sick and wounded soldiers on the battlefield, to political detainees, to those suffering the effects of natural disasters.
An Introduction to Emergency Exercise Design and Evaluation is designed to help practitioners and students of emergency management understand various aspects of the exercise design process.
La estadística es una herramienta esencial para extraer un conocimiento riguroso a partir del análisis de datos, tanto para la toma de decisiones empresariales como para la investigación científica.
La visión artificial es una disciplina científica formada por un conjunto de técnicas que permiten la captura, el procesamiento y el análisis de imágenes, con el fin de extraer información de utilidad.
JavaScript es el lenguaje de programación que se ocupa de asignar la interactividad a cada uno de los elementos que conforman una página web o una aplicación.
jQuery es una biblioteca creada con JavaScript que permite simplificar el desarrollo de animaciones e interacciones con HTML, facilitando el acceso a la estructura interna de un documento.
En esta obra se presentan las bases conceptuales y teóricas fundamentales, así como los enfoques metodológicos que se requieren para una acción de calidad, educativa, sanitaria y social.
Scientists, physicians and spiritual personalities are coming to the public with the message of initiating a new development of consciousness that connects science and spirituality with ever greater, more frequent and convincing results.
Immer häufiger und überzeugender treten Wissenschaftler, Ärzte und spirituelle Persönlichkeiten an die Öffentlichkeit mit der Botschaft zur Einleitung einer neuen Bewusstseinsentwicklung, die Wissenschaft und Spiritualität mit einander verbindet.
You can become a professional public speaker as a lucrative sideline to your current business or you can make professional speaking the entire focus of your career.
Humanitarian Futures: Challenges and Opportunities explores the increasing types, dimensions and dynamics of crises threatening the world in the twenty-first century, and argues that those with humanitarian roles and responsibilities can only meet such challenges if their approaches to strategic and operational planning undergo fundamental paradigmatic shifts.
Auf schlaflosen Nachtflügen, beim tristen Warten auf ein Einreisevisum oder den verspäteten Anschlusszug entstanden Jürgen Liesers nachdenkliche "Randnotizen" aus dreißig Jahren Reisetätigkeit für Caritas international, dem Hilfswerk des Deutschen Caritasverbandes.
Nachdem der Schotte Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow und sein Bruder im Fernsehen einen Bericht über das vom Krieg zerrissene Bosnien-Herzegowina gesehen hatten, beschlossen sie, eine Woche Urlaub zu nehmen um zu helfen.
