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Risk Modeling for Hazards and Disasters.
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ISBN: 0128040939 0128040718 9780128040935 9780128040713 Year: 2017 Publisher: Saint Louis : Elsevier,


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Optimisation of disaster forecasting and prevention measures in the context of human and social dynamics
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ISBN: 1441616802 1607503905 6000014422 9781441616807 9781607503903 1586039482 9781586039486 9781586039486 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands Washington, DC IOS Press

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Addresses a wide range of disaster-management regimes. This book discusses monitoring and the assessment of health and environmental pollution risks, as well as the communication of these risks to the public. It focuses on risk assessment as part of national policies regarding protection of man and environment.

International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, 32nd session
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ISBN: 1281897361 9786611897369 9812701788 9789812701787 9812563857 9789812563859 Year: 2005 Publisher: Hackensack, N.J. World Scientific

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This volume contains the proceedings of the 32nd International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies, which was attended by global leaders in their scientific fields, advisors to presidents, defence secretaries, and high-level diplomats. Readers are invited to participate in the fascinating debate on the wide range of subjects covered including migration, global warming, pollution, the cultural planetary emergency, AIDS and infectious diseases, water conflicts and energy. The proceedings have been selected for coverage in:. Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings® (ISTP® / ISI


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Rest uneasy
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ISBN: 0813588219 0813588227 9780813588223 9780813588216 9780813588209 Year: 2018 Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey

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Tracing the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) diagnosis from its mid-century origins through the late 1900s, Rest Uneasy investigates the processes by which SIDS became both a discrete medical enigma and a source of social anxiety construed differently over time and according to varying perspectives. American medicine reinterpreted and reconceived of the problem of sudden infant death multiple times over the course of the twentieth century. Its various approaches linked sudden infant deaths to all kinds of different causes-biological, anatomical, environmental, and social. In the context of a nation increasingly skeptical, yet increasingly expectant, of medicine, Americans struggled to cope with the paradoxes of sudden infant death; they worked to admit their powerlessness to prevent SIDS even while they tried to overcome it. Brittany Cowgill chronicles and assesses Americans' fraught but consequential efforts to explain and conquer SIDS, illuminating how and why SIDS has continued to cast a shadow over doctors and parents.


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Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia : Sharing Lessons of Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Resource Management.
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ISBN: 3030812073 3030812065 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham Springer Nature

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This Open Access book’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development in the countries of East and Southeast Asia and Japan. Asia is one of the regions which is the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. More than sixty percent of the world’s people live in the region, making it the growth center of the world. Asia is vast and includes various countries and regions, this book is focused on East and Southeast Asia including Japan. It is essential to share the knowledge and experiences for adapting climate change among these areas. In order to tackle these issues, the book aims to: Promote inter-local lessons learnt sharing climate change adaptations; "agriculture and natural resource management" and "disaster risk reduction and human resource development" Provides insights into new adaptation measures and research approaches that can consider the regional nature of Southeast Asia Share practical adaptation options permeated by society in each country/region This book will be of interest to researchers and students examining climate change impacts in East and Southeast Asia.


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Citizen Science: Reducing Risk and Building Resilience to Natural Hazards
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Year: 2020 Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Snow avalanche hazards and mitigation in the United States
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ISBN: 0309043352 9786610212156 1280212152 0309536510 0585144052 9780585144054 9780309043359 Year: 1990 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academy Press


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Natech risk assessment and management : reducing the risk of natural-hazard impact on hazardous installations
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ISBN: 0128038799 0128038071 9780128038796 9780128038079 Year: 2017 Publisher: Boston, MA : Elsevier,

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Natech Risk Assessment and Management: Reducing the Risk of Natural-Hazard Impact on Hazardous Installations covers the entire spectrum of issues pertinent to Natech risk assessment and management. After a thorough introduction of the topic that includes definitions of terms, authors Krausmann, Cruz, and Salzano discuss various examples of international frameworks and provide a detailed view of the implementation of Natech Risk Management in the EU and OECD. There is a dedicated chapter on natural-hazard prediction and measurement from an engineering perspective, as well as a consideration of the impact of climate change on Natech risk. The authors also discuss selected Natech accidents, including recent examples, and provide specific ‘lessons learned’ from each, as well as an analysis of all essential elements of Natech risk assessment, such as plant layout, substance hazards, and equipment vulnerability. The final section of the book is dedicated to the reduction of Natech risk, including structural and organizational prevention and mitigation measures, as well as early warning issues and emergency foreword planning. Teaches chemical engineers and safety managers how to safeguard chemical processing plants and pipelines against natural disasters Includes international regulations and explains how to conduct a natural hazards risk assessment, both of which are supported by examples and case studies Discusses a broad range of hazards and the multidisciplinary aspects of risk assessment in a detailed and accessible style


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Science and technology in disaster risk reduction in Asia : potentials and challenges
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ISBN: 0128127120 0128127112 9780128127124 9780128127117 Year: 2018 Publisher: London, England : Academic Press,


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Integrating disaster science and management : global case studies in mitigation and recovery
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ISBN: 0128120576 0128120568 9780128120576 9780128120569 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam, Netherlands : Elsevier,

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