The Oxford Handbook of Humanitarian Medicine is a practical guide covering all aspects of the provision of care in humanitarian situations and complex emergencies. It includes evidence-based clinical guidance, aimed specifically at resource...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents a comprehensive coverage of the various types of floods, what causes them in different terrains, and the anthropogenic, geographical, hydro-geological, and geomorphological aspects of flood-prone areas. The use of geospatial tec...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic relationship between environmental factors and public health, providing both theoretical insights and practical solutions. As environmental challenges such as climate change, pollution, a...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing on expertise from communication scholars who examine resilience within and across individual, relational, group/team, organizational, inter-organizational, and community levels, this handbook provides a wide-ranging resource for theory bui...Lasīt vairāk
This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content. Questions and related keywords were prepared for the machine to query, discover, collate and structure by Art...Lasīt vairāk
Words Whispered in Water is a rare story about how a tiny woman prevailed against a mammoth federal agency and won. When steel flood-walls built with inherent engineering mistakes broke in New Orleans, the responsible party, the Army Corp...Lasīt vairāk
Words Whispered in Water is a rare story about how a tiny woman prevailed against a mammoth federal agency and won. When steel flood-walls built with inherent engineering mistakes broke in New Orleans, the responsible party, the Army Corp...Lasīt vairāk
The classic account of how volcanism has shaped human culture and science, from the Bronze Age eruption that destroyed Minoan Crete to Mount St. HelensWhen the volcano Tambora erupted in Indonesia in 1815, as many as one hundred tho...Lasīt vairāk
This book shows how the public health crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic becomes a momentum to transform health systems to be more resilient in developing countries. The book begins with a theoretical framework of managing public health crisis, t...Lasīt vairāk
This book deliberates the trends, challenges and potential strategies including urban blue-green infrastructure (BGI) approaches to ensure food security and disaster resilience across the globe. Furthermore, the book explores urban planning (both...Lasīt vairāk
Earth Observation using Scatterometers: State-of-the-Art Techniques, Applications, and Challenges explores the critical role scatterometers play in addressing natural disasters, climate action, and food security. It provides comprehensive guid...Lasīt vairāk
Offering a big picture view of disaster risk in cities, this book uses rich case studies and both technical and socioeconomic insights to demonstrate the role of urbanization in disaster risk. It will benefit students, researchers, and practitione...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009633550)
Offering a big picture view of disaster risk in cities, this book uses rich case studies and both technical and socioeconomic insights to demonstrate the role of urbanization in disaster risk. It will benefit students, researchers, and practitione...Lasīt vairāk
This book consists of 7 parts covering 42 representative environmental disasters. Part 1 introduces representative disasters in Europe, America, and Asia in the 19th century. Part 2 covers disasters related to the atmosphere. Part 3 deals with dis...Lasīt vairāk
The Himalaya Dilemma: Navigating Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience in Geohazard-Prone Regions is a collaborative effort to explore and understand the multiple dangers the Himalayas face, including landsli...Lasīt vairāk
This volume examines the history of natural disasters in the United States and the nations ongoing struggles with long-term disaster preparedness and response. It explores the political, economic, and cultural factors t...Lasīt vairāk
This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent pro...Lasīt vairāk
Every person in the world who was old enough to watch TV watched the events of Words Whispered in Water unfold. Now, the 20th anniversary of the Flooding Catastrophe in New Orleans is almost upon us: August 29, 2025. Rosenthal...Lasīt vairāk
This book focuses on sustainable water management perspective and how to use this knowledge to ensure resilient development. Sustainable water resource management is an essential aspect of resilient development as it helps to ens...Lasīt vairāk
