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Ethnocultural Perspectives on Disaster and Trauma

In this pioneering volume, experts on individual and collective trauma experience, posttraumatic stress and related syndromes, ...

Geo-information for Disaster Management

Geo-information technology offers an opportunity to support disaster management: industrial accidents, road collisions, complex ...

Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation : Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference GEDMAR08, Nanjing, China 30 May – 2 June, 2008

"Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation" presents the latest developments and case studies ...

Green Infrastructure and Climate Change Adaptation : Function, Implementation and Governance

This book introduces the function, implementation and governance of green infrastructure in Japan and other countries where ...

Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia : Sharing Lessons of Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Resource Management

This Obook’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development ...

International Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Occurrence, Mitigation, and Consequences

Reports of natural disasters fill the media with regularity. Places in the world are affected by natural disaster events ...

Landslides

Based on contributions to the first General Assembly of the International Consortium on Landslides, this reference and status ...

Loss and Damage from Climate Change

This book provides an authoritative insight on the Loss and Damage discourse by highlighting state-of-the-art research and ...

Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather A Coastal State's Adaptation Challenges and Successes

This book takes an in-depth look at Louisiana as a state which is ahead of the curve in terms of extreme weather events, ...

Low-Dose Radiation Effects on Animals and Ecosystems Long-Term Study on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

This book brings together the works of radiation biologists and ecologists to provide reliable radioecology data and gives ...

Macroeconomic Risk Management Against Natural Disasters

Natural disasters cause considerable economic damage. While developed countries usually are able to cope with the impacts ...

Manual of Digital Earth

This book offers a summary of the development of Digital Earth over the past twenty years. By reviewing the initial vision ...

Mitigation of Natural Hazards and Disasters

This book examines the aspects of prevention, mitigation, and management of environmental hazards and disasters from an international ...

Natural Disasters and Extreme Events in Agriculture

Agricultural production is highly dependent on weather, climate and water availability and is adversely affected by the weather ...

Natural Disasters as Interactive Components of Global-Ecodynamics

This book opens a new approach to the study of global environmental changes having unfavourable character for mankind and ...

Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies in Animal Production Systems, Preparedness, Response and Recovery

This volume explains how major nuclear and radiological emergencies (NREs) can have implications at local, national and ...

Observing the Volcano World

This book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully ...

Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to ...

Progress in Landslide Science

This book presents current progress in landslide science and consists of four parts: (1) Progress in Landslide Science, (2) ...

Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies for Monitoring and Prediction of Disasters

Lessons learned in the last several years have given clear indications that the prediction and efficient monitoring of disasters ...

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