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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “scira menoni”
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  • Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Governments

    Edited by Scira Menoni ...
    The contributions in Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Government looks at risks not just as a technical, social, political or economic matter, but as originating and challenging the various disciplines. Contextual aspects, usually defined by engineers as "margin conditions", are generally not looked at, but deserve much more atttention, pa ... Read more

    $359.99 CAD

  • Flood Damage Survey and Assessment

    New Insights from Research and Practice

    Edited by Daniela Molinari, Scira Menoni, Francesco Ballio ...
    Series Book 228 - Geophysical Monograph Series
    Floods can have a devastating impact on life, property and economic resources. However, the systematic collection of damage data in the aftermath of flood events can contribute to future risk mitigation. Such data can support a variety of actions including the identification of priorities for intervention during emergencies, the creation of complete event scenarios to tailor risk mitigation ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Peri-Urban Areas and Food-Energy-Water Nexus

    Sustainability and Resilience Strategies in the Age of Climate Change

    Edited by Angela Colucci, Marcello Magoni, Scira Menoni ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book explores the nexus among food, energy and water in peri-urban areas, demonstrating how relevant this nexus is for environmental sustainability. In particular it examines the effective management of the nexus in the face of the risks and trade-offs of mitigation policies, and as a mean to create resilience to climate change. The book delineates strategies and actions necessary to develop ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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    by Daniel Hillel, Cynthia Rosenzweig ...
    Series Book 3 - Icp Series On Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, And Mitigation
    “Top agricultural scientists from around the world have taken up the challenge of sustainable agriculture, with the specific focus on integrating agronomic, climatological, biophysical and socio-economic perspectives and processes. Every chapter (of the Handbook) contributes to addressing the growing food-security challenges facing the world.”Foreword by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth ... Read more

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  • Climate Change in Practice

    Topics for Discussion with Group Exercises

    by Robert L. Wilby ...
    Derived from an undergraduate course taught by the author, this accessible book seeks to challenge and provoke readers by posing a series of topical questions concerning climate change and society. Topic summaries provide answers to technical, socio-economic and moral questions surrounding the deployment of climate science. These include how to build and test a climate model, whom and what is most ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • Climate Impacts on Energy Systems: Key Issues for Energy Sector Adaptation

    by Ebinger,Jane; Vergara,Walter ...
    While the energy sector is a primary target of efforts to arrest and reverse the growth of greenhouse gas emissions and lower the carbon footprint of development it is also expected to be increasingly affected by unavoidable climate consequences from the damage already induced in the biosphere. Energy services and resources as well as seasonal demand will be increasingly affected by changing ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Climate Adaptation Modelling

    Edited by Claus Kondrup, Paola Mercogliano, Francesco Bosello, Jaroslav Mysiak, Enrico Scoccimarro, Angela Rizzo, Rhian Ebrey, Marleen de Ruiter, Ad Jeuken, Paul Watkiss ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled by this literature: the still existing gap between adaptation science and modelling and the possibility to effectively access and exploit the information produced by policy making at different levels, international, national and local. To do so, the book presents the proceedings of a high-level expert workshop on adaptation ... Read more

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  • Earthquake Hazard Impact and Urban Planning

    Edited by Maria Bostenaru Dan, Iuliana Armas, Agostino Goretti ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The classical field dealing with earthquakes is called “earthquake engineering” and considered to be a branch of structural engineering. In projects dealing with strategies for earthquake risk mitigation, urban planning approaches are often neglected. Today interventions are needed on a city, rather than a building, scale. This work deals with the impact of earthquakes, including also a broader ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

    Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions

    Edited by Adriano Bisello, Daniele Vettorato, David Ludlow, Claudia Baranzelli ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consultants and other professionals.Innovation processes ... Read more

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  • Air Quality Integrated Assessment

    A European Perspective

    Edited by Giorgio Guariso, Marialuisa Volta ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book reports on the results of an extended survey conducted across Europe within the framework of the APPRAISAL FP7 project to determine the extent to which an integrated assessment approach to air quality is being adopted, on the one hand, by regional and local authorities to develop air quality plans and, on the other, by researchers. ... Read more

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  • Renewing Local Planning to Face Climate Change in the Tropics

    Edited by Maurizio Tiepolo, Alessandro Pezzoli, Vieri Tarchiani ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book aims to inspire decision makers and practitioners to change their approach to climate planning in the tropics through the application of modern technologies for characterizing local climate and tracking vulnerability and risk, and using decision-making tools. Drawing on 16 case studies conducted mainly in the Caribbean, Central America, ... Read more

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  • Bridging Science And Policy Implication For Managing Climate Extremes

    by Hong-sang Jung, Bin Wang ...
    Series Book 10 - World Scientific Series On Asia-pacific Weather And Climate
    Since 1980, the number of climate-related disasters has been greatly increased globally. Scientific consensus based on the IPCC fifth report suggested that global warming would bring more intense and frequent extreme climate events. These climate-related disasters hinder the achievement of sustainable economic growth and prosperity by disrupting supply chains, impeding production, destroying ... Read more

    $106.99 CAD