Disaster Risk and Vulnerability : Mitigation Through Mobilizing Communities and Partnerships [1 ed.] 9780773583825, 9780773545298

Disaster Risk and Vulnerability: Mitigation through Mobilizing Communities and Partnerships 9780773587069

Why communities and institutions need to work together to reduce disaster risk.

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Risk, Disaster, and Vulnerability: An Essay on Humanity and Environmental Catastrophe 9780520392649

Over the course of the past century, there has been a sustained reflective engagement about environmental risks, disaste

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Techniques for disaster risk management and mitigation 9781119359173, 1119359171, 9781119359203, 1119359201

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- Section I Introduction -- Chapter 1 Conc

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Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk: Volume 1 Sendai Landslide Partnerships and Kyoto Landslide Commitment (ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction) 3030601951, 9783030601959

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Risk, Vulnerability and Everyday Life 0415370809, 9780415370806

Providing an overview and commentary on ways in which sociologists seek to understand the 'risk society', this

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Flood risk management: hazards, vulnerability and mitigation measures: [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Flood Risk Management - Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures, Ostrov, Czech Republic, 6 - 10 October 2004] [1 ed.] 1402045964, 9781402045967

Floods are of increasing public concern world-wide due to increasing damages and unacceptably high numbers of injuries.

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Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Adaptation 3031221117, 9783031221118

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. The series aims to fill in gaps in t

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Supply Chain Risk Mitigation: Strategies, Methods and Applications 3031091825, 9783031091827

This book covers central issues in mitigating supply chain risks from various perspectives. Today’s supply chains are vu

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Climate Change, Disaster Risks, and Human Security: Asian Experience and Perspectives (Disaster Risk Reduction) 9811588511, 9789811588518

This book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia. Climate change and disaster ri

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Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk, Volume 4: Testing, Modeling and Risk Assessment 3030607054, 9783030607050

This book is a part of ICL new book series “ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction” founded in 2019. Peer

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