Flood Forecasting: A Global Perspective describes flood forecast systems and operations as they currently exist at national and regional centers around the globe, focusing on the technical aspects of flood forecast systems.
This book addresses disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies, focusing on reducing the paradox that exists between the compulsory implementation of DRR policies and continuing limitationsThe authors use their knowledge of the ever-evolving threats associated with disasters and their prevention to investigate this famous paradox and propose solutions that will help readers understand and reconsider its existence.
It was a warm spring evening in the country home where Beth and Marie shared their lives with dogs, cats, cows, chickens, and many beautiful birds flittering in the trees.
En estos años, pese a la crisis económica y a las restricciones por la pandemia, los espacios culturales alternativos han reforzado su carácter aglutinante, construyendo conexiones territoriales en sus barrios a través de circuitos y acciones conjuntas, así como redes de contención y lucha frente a un estado municipal ausente o limitante del desarrollo natural de estas organizaciones.
La sociología nació con el impulso de pensar un tiempo de cambios profundos, en el que las sociedades del Antiguo Régimen se resquebrajaban rápidamente para dar paso al naciente capitalismo industrial.
Contaminación de los ríos, embriones congelados, coronavirus, sida, agujero de ozono, robots… ¿Cómo comprender estos "objetos" extraños que invaden nuestro mundo?
A medida que la crisis climática se intensifica, científicos, activistas, abogados, investigadores y movimientos sociales ensayan respuestas literalmente contra reloj.
Un surtidor de YPF y garrafas de Gas del Estado en las Malvinas, relaciones más o menos fluidas entre isleños y argentinos, maestras que enseñan español en Puerto Stanley, vuelos semanales a Comodoro Rivadavia, isleños que viajan a Buenos Aires para hacer tratamientos médicos, a Córdoba para completar el colegio secundario, a Bariloche para pasar sus vacaciones.
Several scientists claim that the sixth mass extinction of global biodiversity is already underway, and other specialists highlight the importance of the environmental impact of human activity and propose our geological era should be given a new name: Anthropocene.
Several scientists claim that the sixth mass extinction of global biodiversity is already underway, and other specialists highlight the importance of the environmental impact of human activity and propose our geological era should be given a new name: Anthropocene.
Toda escritura anterior, íntima o pública, debería someterse al ejercicio de la reescritura; todo fragmento leído, al de la relectura; todo pensamiento cristalizado será devuelto a su cristal y a resquebrajarse una y mil veces; toda certeza, una particular forma de agravio; toda duda: saber que aún estamos vivos.
En Política cultural y desacuerdo, Alexandre Barbalho propone salir del terreno conocido, e incluso autocomplaciente, para experimentar la cultura como desacuerdo.
Natural disasters, instability in the finance and banking sector, widespread social protests, and other crisis situations have increasingly become the focus of public attention.
After the devastating disaster caused by the tsunami on 26 December 2004, disaster mitigation and rehabilitation have become some of the most pressing topics for discussion in geotechnical engineering and related professions.
This book aims to present the overall existing tsunami hazard in the Caribbean Sea region, a region which is typically only associated with hurricanes.
Natural disasters, terrorist attacks, financial collapses, and other crisis situations have occupied public attention to an unprecedented degree in recent years.
Esta obra es resultado del trabajo adelantado por los autores en las líneas de acción del Centro de Pensamiento UN-Caribe y del grupo de investigación "Agenda Internacional", ambos de laUniversidad del Norte.
"Bien es sabido que los modelos de desarrollo rural implementados en Colombia por las instituciones políticas, los gobiernos y los gremios económicos no han hecho sostenibles los territorios rurales, ya que persisten la pobreza, el analfabetismo, el difícil acceso a la propiedad por parte de los campesinos sin tierra y, en general, los pretextos que han dado origen a todas las políticas rurales desde la "reforma agraria" hasta la fecha.
This encyclopedia is unique in the sense that it covers all applied aspects of disaster reduction and mitigation, hazard management and emergency humanitarian assistance.
This encyclopedia is unique in the sense that it covers all applied aspects of disaster reduction and mitigation, hazard management and emergency humanitarian assistance.
This encyclopedia is unique in the sense that it covers all applied aspects of disaster reduction and mitigation, hazard management and emergency humanitarian assistance.
This encyclopedia is unique in the sense that it covers all applied aspects of disaster reduction and mitigation, hazard management and emergency humanitarian assistance.
This encyclopedia is unique in the sense that it covers all applied aspects of disaster reduction and mitigation, hazard management and emergency humanitarian assistance.
This study is a modest effort in the same direction, for understanding the problems and the occurrences and also offering suggestions for seeking a remedy for the same.
Green House Effect , Ozone Layer Depletion , Frequent Earthquakes, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Chernobyl Tragedy , Complete Extinction Of Many Species Of Fauna And Flora From The Face Of The Earth And More Particularly Rapidly Deteriorating Environmental- Ecological Conditions Have Made The Human Survival Itself A Question.
Green House Effect , Ozone Layer Depletion , Frequent Earthquakes, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Chernobyl Tragedy , Complete Extinction Of Many Species Of Fauna And Flora From The Face Of The Earth And More Particularly Rapidly Deteriorating Environmental- Ecological Conditions Have Made The Human Survival Itself A Question.
Green House Effect , Ozone Layer Depletion , Frequent Earthquakes, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Chernobyl Tragedy , Complete Extinction Of Many Species Of Fauna And Flora From The Face Of The Earth And More Particularly Rapidly Deteriorating Environmental- Ecological Conditions Have Made The Human Survival Itself A Question.
Green House Effect , Ozone Layer Depletion , Frequent Earthquakes, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Chernobyl Tragedy , Complete Extinction Of Many Species Of Fauna And Flora From The Face Of The Earth And More Particularly Rapidly Deteriorating Environmental- Ecological Conditions Have Made The Human Survival Itself A Question.
Green House Effect , Ozone Layer Depletion , Frequent Earthquakes, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Chernobyl Tragedy , Complete Extinction Of Many Species Of Fauna And Flora From The Face Of The Earth And More Particularly Rapidly Deteriorating Environmental- Ecological Conditions Have Made The Human Survival Itself A Question.
Green House Effect , Ozone Layer Depletion , Frequent Earthquakes, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Chernobyl Tragedy , Complete Extinction Of Many Species Of Fauna And Flora From The Face Of The Earth And More Particularly Rapidly Deteriorating Environmental- Ecological Conditions Have Made The Human Survival Itself A Question.
Green House Effect , Ozone Layer Depletion , Frequent Earthquakes, Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Chernobyl Tragedy , Complete Extinction Of Many Species Of Fauna And Flora From The Face Of The Earth And More Particularly Rapidly Deteriorating Environmental- Ecological Conditions Have Made The Human Survival Itself A Question.
This report provides the latest evidence on the scale and impacts of disaster displacement in Asia and the Pacific and outlines durable solutions for prevention, response, and recovery.
This manual sets out how to combine road safety audits with the International Road Assessment Programme methodology to form Star Ratings for Road Safety Audit.
The annual Asian Development Outlook, now in its 30th year, analyzes economic performance in the past year and forecasts performance in the next 2 years for the 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific that make up developing Asia.
