Electronic Books

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Organisational Excellence and Resilience : Stress Management as a Component of a Sustainable Corporate Development Strategy / Rita Berger

Personal stress has an enormous impact on organizational and employee performance. This book introduces the web-based diagnostic ...

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Promoting Community Resilience in Disasters

A myriad of models are available to guide practice before, during, and following disasters. As emphasized in this book, we ...

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Promoting Positive Development in Early Childhood

Promoting Positive Development in Early Childhood introduces Developmental Assets for Early Childhood, a unique strengths-based ...

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Rangeland Systems

This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global ...

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Rational Cybersecurity for Business The Security Leaders' Guide to Business Alignment

This book presents six priority areas to focus on to maximize the effectiveness of your cybersecurity program: risk management, ...

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NoIMG
Reflections on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident : Toward Social-Scientific Literacy and Engineering Resilience

This book focuses on nuclear engineering education in the post-Fukushima era. It was edited by the organizers of the summer ...

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Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective

This book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry ...

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Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics

This book aims to inspire decision makers and practitioners to change their approach to climate planning in the tropics through ...

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Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety

This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, ...

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Resilient Urban Futures

This book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. ...

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NoIMG
Safer Healthcare : Strategies for the Real World

The authors of this book set out a system of safety strategies and interventions for managing patient safety on a day-to-day ...

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NoIMG
Seeds for Diversity and Inclusion : Agroecology and Endogenous Development

This book will contribute to a more nuanced debate around seed system resilience that goes beyond the dominant dichotomous ...

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Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People Key Factors for the Success and Continuity of Schooling Levels

This book provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European ...

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Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road

This book discusses socio-environmental interactions in the middle to late Holocene, covering specific areas along the ancient ...

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