Tsunamis in the European-Mediterranean Region: From Historical Record to Risk Mitigation provides readers with a much needed, reliable, and up-to-date history of the region, including descriptions and parameters of the main events from pre-history to the present that are supported by parametric catalogues, pictorial material, and examples of instrumental records, such as tide-gauge records.
Equipado con un cuaderno de notas, una botella de agua y una mochila liviana, Diego Alfaro Palma avanza por las calles de Santiago de Chile durante la gran explosión popular que comenzó los primeros días de octubre y se extendió hasta el final del 2019.
Tsunamis in the European-Mediterranean Region: From Historical Record to Risk Mitigation provides readers with a much needed, reliable, and up-to-date history of the region, including descriptions and parameters of the main events from pre-history to the present that are supported by parametric catalogues, pictorial material, and examples of instrumental records, such as tide-gauge records.
Tras el colapso del comunismo en los 90, cuando la lucha de clases alcanzó su máximo apogeo, se pasó a nuevos modelos de conflictos en la globalización: los conflictos de identidades en los Estados debilitados y en desagregación, los conflictos de distribución en la economía global y en los territorios nacionales y subnacionales (del ingreso y el patrimonio, el poder y los riesgos), los conflictos por la concentración y centralización en los centiles entre pobres y la clase media con relación a los grandes multimillonarios del planeta que en 2017, según Oxfam, el 1 % más rico poseía el 82 % de la riqueza mundial generada en dicho año.
When disaster strikes, our instinctive response is to make things better, not only as individuals but also as groups, organisations, communities and major institutions within society.
When disaster strikes, our instinctive response is to make things better, not only as individuals but also as groups, organisations, communities and major institutions within society.
This report explains how rising climate and disaster risk is set to increase the vulnerability of Asia and the Pacific region's urban poor and identifies how to engender systemic change to strengthen their resilience.
A host of catastrophes, natural and otherwise, as well as some pleasant surpriseslike the sudden end of the cold war without a shot being firedhave caught governments and societies unprepared many times in recent decades.
Development of various sciences invoked the Medical Council of India (MCI) New Delhi to start a department of Emergency Medicine in Medical Colleges of India.
In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency.
In the summer of 2013, just as a small town in Quebec was decimated due to a train derailment, heavy rainfall prompted thirty Alberta communities to declare a state of emergency.
El presente trabajo parte de dos afirmaciones que desde nuestra perspectiva construyen un sentido por el cual planificar la esperanza y que no son más que la interpretación surgida de la sistematización de diferentes procesos / prácticas acompañadas durante el año 2020 desde el inicio de la pandemia.
El mundo pospandemia, y en particular en Latinoamérica y Argentina, presentará serios desafíos para el logro de un "desarrollo inclusivo y sostenible".
An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit (';the voice of the resistance'New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment.
This two-volume encyclopedia provides the science behind such heart-pumping geophysical hazards as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, cyclones, and floods, as well as authoritative entries on notable natural disasters around the world and the agencies that help those they impact.
Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "e;highly visible"e; disasters and several slow-burning, "e;hidden,"e; crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change.
A consistent problem that confronts disaster reduction is the disjunction between academic and expert knowledge and policies and practices of agencies mandated to deal with the concern.
With more than 100 check lists, diagrams, charts, tables, forms and pre-written documents, this is the comprehensive guide to a crisis plan that you need.
On the 14th June 2017, a fire engulfed a tower block in West London, seventy-two people lost their lives and hundreds of others were left displaced and traumatised.
The poor and vulnerable populations suffer disproportionately from the adverse impacts of climate change and disasters, which result in loss of life, damage to household and community assets, disruption of livelihoods, and loss of income.
