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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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) ...

Emerging and Young Adulthood

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Framing in Sustainability Science Theoretical and Practical Approaches

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

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 ...

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 ...

Handbook of Resilience in Children

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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