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  • The Interplay between Urban Development, Vulnerability, and Risk Management

    A Case Study of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area

    de Ebru A. Gencer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Natural disasters are increasingly affecting the world, taking lives unexpectedly and leaving many others injured and homeless. Moreover, disasters disrupt local, national and even global economies, instantly changing the direction of development. In the first half of 2011 alone, 108 natural disasters occurred, killing over 23 thousand people, affecting nearly 44 million others and causing more ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • Floods in a Megacity

    Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

    de Ashraf Dewan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly in urban agglomerations of 10 million people or more, floods could cause widespread ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • China's Energy Efficiency and Conservation

    Sectoral Analysis

    Edición de Bin Su, Elspeth Thomson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This Brief identifies various aspects of energy challenges faced by the Chinese central/local governments, and also provides an opportunity to study how best to achieve green growth and a low-carbon transition in a developing country like China. The progress of China’s carbon mitigation policies also has significant impacts on the on-going international climate change negotiations. Therefore, both ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Risk Governance

    The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

    Edición de Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Developing Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change

    Edición de E. Carina H. Keskitalo ...
    Mitigation will not be sufficient for us to avoid climate change and we will need to adapt to its consequences. This book targets the development of adaptation policy in European countries with different relations between central and regional/local government. ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Geographies of Urban Governance

    Advanced Theories, Methods and Practices

    Edición de Joyeeta Gupta, Karin Pfeffer, Hebe Verrest, Mirjam Ros-Tonen ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    With a current population inflow into cities of 200,000 people per day, UN Habitat expects that up to 75% of the global population will live in cities by 2050. Influenced by forces of globalization and global change, cities and urban life are transforming rapidly, impacting human welfare, economic development and urban-regional landscapes. This poses new challenges to urban governance, while ... Leer más

    $49.49 USD

  • Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions

    European and Asian Experiences

    Edición de Derk Loorbach, Julia M. Wittmayer, Hideaki Shiroyama, Junichi Fujino, Satoru Mizuguchi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling to an international audience into how cities address the sustainability challenges they face. They do this by not repeating old patterns but by searching for new and innovative methods and instruments based on shared principles of a transitions approach. The book describes the quest of cities on two continents to accelerate and stimulate such ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • Urban Transportation Planning in the United States

    History, Policy, and Practice

    de Edward Weiner ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)

    $107.99 USD

  • Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies

    Edición de Harry W. Richardson, Qisheng Pan, JiYoung Park, James E. Moore II ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps to estimate the economic impact of simulated terrorist attacks on seaports, malls etc. as well as of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The authors also analyze the economic and social effects of metropolitan policies such as growth controls, neighborhood ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future

    Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the International Geographical Union Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013

    Edición de Kohei Okamoto, Yoshitaka Ishikawa ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The title of this book, Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth’s Future, is from the theme of the 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union. Over the past few decades, globalization has strengthened connections among countries and regions of the world and has greatly changed existing geographies. However, this trend has also fostered various problems on ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

    Edición de Hari Krishna Nibanupudi, Rajib Shaw ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and water-induced disasters. This fragile mountain region is under tremendous stress from climate change and land-use degradation that has accelerated flash floods, river-line floods, erosion, and wet mass movements during the monsoon period and drought in the non-monsoon period. Against the backdrop of intensifying ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • The Capacity Crisis in Disaster Risk Management

    Why disaster management capacity remains low in developing countries and what can be done

    de Asmita Tiwari ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    How can a place be built and managed so that it is safe for people to live? Ironically, many governments and citizens keep on asking the same question after every new disaster. Why, even with high levels of investment in increasing government’s capacity to manage disasters, do the impacts of disasters continue to increase? What can the governments do differently? What is the role of local ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD