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  • Disaster by Choice

    How our actions turn natural hazards into catastrophes

    de Ilan Kelman ...
    An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through these 'natural disasters'. Science recounts a different story, however: disasters are not the consequence of natural causes; they are the consequence of human choices and decisions. We put ourselves in harm's way; we fail to take measures which we know would prevent ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Reflecting on Ben Wisner’s Contributions to Scholarship and Scholars

    The Benschrift

    Edición de Ben Wisner, JC Gaillard, Ilan Kelman ...
    This book is a festschrift in tribute to Ben Wisner’s contributions to disaster studies and adjacent fields of scholarship such as political ecology, development and sustainability.This festschrift for Ben, and so The Benschrift, revitalises, promotes and critiques a selection of six foundational articles that span Ben’s 50-year career. Each article is reproduced integrally and followed by a ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Environmental Hazards

    Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

    de Keith Smith, Carina J. Fearnley, Deborah Dixon, Deanne K. Bird, Ilan Kelman ...
    The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century globally. It integrates cutting-edge materials to provide an interdisciplinary approach to environmental hazards and their management, illustrating how natural and human systems interact to place ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

  • Katastrophen aus Menschenhand

    Die Schattenseiten unserer Entscheidungen: Wenn Naturgefahren zu Tragödien werden

    de Ilan Kelman ...
    Traducido por Patrizia Isabelle Glick, Kristina Geva ...
    Series series Life Science and Basic Disciplines (German Language)
    Ein Erdbeben erschüttert Haiti und ein Hurrikan wütet in Texas. Wir hören, dass die Natur wütet und versucht, uns durch diese "Naturkatastrophen" zu zerstören. Die Wissenschaft erzählt eine andere Geschichte: die unbequeme Wahrheit, dass Katastrophen nicht die Folge von natürlichen Ursachen sind, sondern die meisten "Naturkatastrophen" durch menschliche Entscheidungen verursacht werden.In diesem ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Disaster Management

    International Lessons in Risk Reduction, Response and Recovery

    Edición de Alejandro Lopez-Carresi, Maureen Fordham, Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, Jc Gaillard ...
    There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means that valuable lessons are not learned and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialogue between theory and practice. It offers vital lessons to practitioners from scholarship on natural hazards, disaster risk management and reduction and ... Leer más

    $79.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation

    Edición de Ilan Kelman, Jessica Mercer, JC Gaillard ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation aims to provide an overview and critique of the current state of knowledge, policy, and practice, encouraging engagement, and reflection on bringing the two sectors together. This long-awaited and welcomed volume makes a compelling case that a common research agenda and a series of practical policies and policy ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Disaster Prevention

    Edición de Ilan Kelman ...
    Series series Routledge Recommends
    Leading editors have curated collections of important Routledge research in ebook form to share recommended paths to understanding cutting-edge topics.In this book Ilan Kelman presents his guide to the must-read research on the subject of Disaster Prevention. ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Arctic Triumph

    Northern Innovation and Persistence

    Edición de Nikolas Sellheim, Yulia V. Zaika, Ilan Kelman ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book approaches the challenges the Arctic has faced and is facing through a lens of opportunity. Through pinpointed examples from and dealing with the Circumpolar North, the Arctic is depicted as a region where people and peoples have managed to endure despite significant challenges at hand. This book treats the ‘Arctic of disasters’ as an innovated narrative and asks how the ‘disaster pieces ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Adaptation To Climate Change: Asean And Comparative Experiences

    de Kheng Lian Koh, Robert Kibugi, Ilan Kelman, Rose-liza Eisma Osorio ...
    Adaptation to Climate Change: ASEAN and Comparative Experiences presents a dynamic and comprehensive collection of works from legal scholars around the world that delves into a relatively new frontier on legal aspects of climate change adaptation with focus on the ASEAN region, both at the regional level as well as at the national level in some ASEAN countries — such as Malaysia, Philippines, and ... Leer más

    $63.99 USD

  • Small Island Developing States

    Vulnerability and Resilience Under Climate Change

    Edición de Stefano Moncada, Lino Briguglio, Hilary Bambrick, Ilan Kelman, Catherine Iorns, Leonard Nurse ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book explores how vulnerable and resilient communities from SIDS are affected by climate change; proposes and, where possible, evaluates adaptation activities; identifies factors capable of enhancing or inhibiting SIDS people’s long-term ability to deal with climate change; and critiques the discourses, vocabularies, and constructions around SIDS dealing with climate change. The contributions ... Leer más

    $152.99 USD

  • Climate Change Modelling for Local Adaptation in the Hindu Kush - Himalayan Region

    de Rajib Shaw ...
    Series Libro 11 - Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
    This book presents a portrait of the social advantages and limitations of climate change related modeling in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. Physical systems modeling - such as of climate, weather, water, and soil - can be useful planning tools, and are essential to the forecasts and projections used operationally for decisions on climate and development. However, these models and their ... Leer más

    $147.99 USD

  • Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

    Edición de Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, JC Gaillard ...
    The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools.Organized into five ... Leer más

    $110.99 USD