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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “chamila subasinghe”
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  • Rebuilding for Resilience: A Barrier Island Case

    The Bolivar Peninsula, U.S.A.

    by Chamila Subasinghe ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Recurring extreme events of nature challenge disaster-prone settlements in complex ways. Devastating property damages are one of the tests of survival for such settlements in both economic and social terms. It also provides unique opportunities to rethink the environment cleared by massive natural disasters. However, rebuilding for long-term resiliency is one of the least investigated areas, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Micro Human Efforts in Disaster Rebuilding

    Cultural and Contextual Lessons for Resilience

    Edited by Chamila (Don) Subasinghe, Sanjoy Mazumdar ...
    This book unlocks the transformative potential of Micro Human Efforts (MHE) in the domain of disaster resilience through an interwoven narrative of human resilience, grounded in insights from the influential special issue of the International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters.This work delves into the critical, often neglected, role of individual, intuitive initiatives in the wake of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Introducing Multidisciplinary Micro-credentialing

    Rethinking Learning and Development for Higher Education and Industry

    Edited by Chamila Subasinghe, Beena Giridharan ...
    Many new entrants to higher education, including employees and job seekers, consider micro-credentialing as time-wise alternatives to traditional degrees. These short online or physical courses are more accessible and allow the learner to quickly acquire skills-in-demand and associated knowledge and then re-deploy themselves into industry. Although micro-credentials paybacks are enormous, as they ... Read more

    $86.09 USD

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    The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    by Elinor Ostrom ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Read more

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  • Resilience

    Why Things Bounce Back

    by Andrew Zolli, Ann Marie Healy ...
    Discover a powerful new lens for viewing the world with fascinating implications for our companies, economies, societies, and planet as a whole.What causes one system to break down and another to rebound? Are we merely subject to the whim of forces beyond our control? Or, in the face of constant disruption, can we build better shock absorbers—for ourselves, our communities, our economies, and for ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Model Thinker

    What You Need to Know to Make Data Work for You

    by Scott E. Page ...
    Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, ... Read more

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  • Managing Social Research

    A Practical Guide

    by Roger Tarling ...
    Series series Social Research Today
    An essential tool for those planning to undertake social research, this exceptional book tackles many of the specific concerns and issues that arise. A well structured text, it offers a comprehensive introduction to a range of important areas in project management, including:commissioning researchpreparing a tender or grant applicationrisk and stakeholder analysismanaging the field work and data ... Read more

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  • International Human Resource Development

    Learning, Education and Training for Individuals and Organizations

    Edited by John P. Wilson ...
    International Human Resource Development provides thought-provoking questions and stimulating answers to key issues in human resource development today, putting HRD in its strategic organizational context and examining in depth the process of learning from different perspectives.This third edition provides a thorough exploration of international human resource development, and has been completely ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice

    A Guide to the Theory and Practice of People Management

    by Michael Armstrong, Stephen Taylor ...
    Understand and apply strategic human resource management with this definitive resource.Armstrong's Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice by Michael Armstrong and Stephen Taylor is a leading HRM textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as professionals studying for CIPD Level 5 and Level 7 qualifications. Fully aligned with the CIPD Profession Map, this updated 17th ... Read more

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  • Sustainability Science

    by Bert J. M. de Vries ...
    Sustainable development is becoming the guiding principle for the twenty-first century. This textbook - based on the author's course and rigorously class-tested by his students - provides an introduction into patterns of past and present (un)sustainable development and into the emergence of the notion of sustainable development. It systematically surveys the key concepts, models and findings of ... Read more

    $59.89 USD

  • Tropical Sustainable Architecture

    Edited by Joo Hwa Bay, Boon Lay Ong ...
    The tropical belt – where large areas of South East Asia, India, Africa and parts of both North and South America are located – forms the biggest landmass in the world and has one of the highest numbers of rapidly developing cities. Coincidentally, architecture in these regions shares common problems, the most easily identifiable being the tropical conditions of climate and natural environment. ... Read more

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  • Facilities Change Management

    Edited by Edward Finch ...
    Modern organisations are subject to continual change - technologies evolve, organisational structures are modified, people and underlying cultures are transformed. Yet the facilities that organisations occupy are static and can impede the changes that are essential to organisational survival. The response to change in terms of property and support services is often too little too late - leading to ... Read more

    $63.00 USD