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Creating Resilient Futures : Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction, Sustainable Development Goals and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas

This excellent text recognises that efforts towards improving development outcomes must work in concert with strategies which ...

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978-3-030-91727-2
Crisis Management for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) : Strategies for External Crises / Susanne Durst, Thomas Henschel

Provides an in-depth introduction to crisis management and leadership in SMEs, as well as methods, approaches and cases against ...

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978-0-387-70990-1
Cross-Cultural Assessment of Psychological Trauma and PTSD

Recent advances in trauma treatment, coupled with ongoing traumatic world events, point to a critical need for global standards ...

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978-981-15-5963-1
Cultivating Teacher Resilience International Approaches, Applications and Impact

This book follows the development of the Building Resilience in Teacher Education (BRiTE) project across Australia and internationally. ...

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978-3-030-73569-2
Earth Observation Science and Applications for Risk Reduction and Enhanced Resilience in Hindu Kush Himalaya Region A Decade of Experience from SERVIR

This book is a consolidation of lessons learnt and experiences gathered from our efforts to utilise Earth observation (EO) ...

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978-0-387-71033-4
Emerging and Young Adulthood

The delayed onset of maturity from adolescence to adulthood is gaining the considerable attention of scholars, not to mention ...

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978-3-031-04884-5
Entrepreneurial Responses to Chronic Adversity : The Bright, the Dark, and the in Between / Dean A. Shepherd, Vinit Parida, Joakim Wincent

Extends recent work on entrepreneurship in response to adverse events to explore entrepreneurial responses by people who ...

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978-1-4020-8551-2
Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts

This book focuses on the linkage between human and environmental security and takes both a conceptual and a pragmatic approach ...

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978-3-319-43702-6
Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development

The following sections focus on evaluation of climate change projects and policies as they link to development, from the ...

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978-3-030-03189-3
Exploring Resilience : A Scientific Journey from Practice to Theory

Resilience has become an important topic on the safety research agenda and in organizational practice. Most empirical work ...

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978-981-13-9061-6
Framing in Sustainability Science Theoretical and Practical Approaches

This book offers both conceptual and empirical descriptions of how to “frame” sustainability challenges. It defines ...

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9781398605022
Fundamentals of Operational Risk Management : Understanding and Implementing Effective Tools, Policies and Frameworks / Simon Ashby

Threats to an organization's operations, such as fraud, IT disruption or poorly designed products, could result in serious ...

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Governance for Drought Resilience : Land and Water Drought Management in Europe

This book will aid regional water authorities and other relevant stakeholders interested in governance assessment, whether ...

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978-0-306-48572-5
Handbook of Resilience in Children

Even the most significant technological and medical advances of the 21st century have been tempered by the increasing risk ...

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978-3-030-27205-0
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, ...

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Make Your Brain Work : How to Maximize Your Efficiency, Productivity and Effectiveness / Amy Brann

This entertaining book will help you reduce the stress and overwhelm of poor time management, and help get you to that next ...

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9780367723248
Managing Public Services: Making Informed Choices / Irvine Lapsley, Ola Mattisson

Chapters provide a valuable frame of reference for the 21st-century manager of public services by assessing the renewal of ...

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978-981-15-1133-2
Managing Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes for Sustainable Communities in Asia Mapping and Navigating Stakeholders, Policy and Action

This book presents up-to-date analyses of community-based approaches to sustainable resource management of SEPLS (socio-ecological ...

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Managing the Complexity of Critical Infrastructures : A Modelling and Simulation Approach

This book summarizes work being pursued in the context of the CIPRNet (Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience ...

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Migration and Pandemics : Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception

This book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency ...

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