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Petit vocabulaire des risques et des catastrophes d'origine naturelle
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ISBN: 9782355270826 Year: 2012 Publisher: [Bordeaux] : Éd. Confluences,

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L'apocalypse cinéma : 2012 et autres fin du monde
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ISBN: 9782918040514 2918040517 Year: 2012 Publisher: Nantes : Capricci,

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The end of meaning
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ISBN: 1443839434 9781443839433 9781443839150 1443839159 Year: 2012 Publisher: Newcastle Cambridge Scholars

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The specter of the apocalypse has always been a semiotic fantasy: only at the end of all things will their true meaning be revealed. Our long romance with catastrophe is inseparable from the Western hermeneutical tradition: our search for an elusive truth


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Katastrophen : Konfrontationen mit dem Realen
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ISBN: 9783941030121 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bochum : Ch.A. Bachmann Verlag,

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Archéosismicité & tsunamis en Méditerranée : approches croisées : actes des IXe Rencontres du Groupe APS, 6-8 décembre 2010, Cagnes-sur-mer
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ISBN: 9782951502550 2951502559 Year: 2012 Publisher: Perpignan : Groupe APS,

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Disaster resilience
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ISBN: 0309261511 9780309261500 0309261503 9780309261517 9780309261470 0309261473 0309261538 Year: 2012 Publisher: Washington, DC National Academies Press

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Les écofictions : mythologies de la fin du monde
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ISBN: 9782874491405 2874491403 Year: 2012 Volume: *22 Publisher: Bruxelles : Les impressions nouvelles,

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Pollution, réchauffement climatique, catastrophes naturelles, épidémies, manipulations génétiques font partie de notre quotidien, engendrant une culpabilité et des angoisses dont nous avons de plus en plus de mal à nous défaire. Les fictions, littérature et cinéma en tête, exploitent ces nouvelles peurs, réactivant d'anciens mythes et créant de nouveaux. À la lumière de plus de deux cents romans, films, bandes dessinées, documentaires, essais ou publicités, Christian Chelebourg démonte pour notre plus grand plaisir les mécanismes de ces 'écofictions' qui nous divertissent autant qu'elles nous effraient, qui nous invitent à méditer sur notre fragilité autant qu'elles nous persuadent de notre puissance.


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Six sources of collapse
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ISBN: 9780883855799 9781614445142 0883855798 1614445141 Year: 2012 Publisher: Washington Mathematical Assn America

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Beginning with one of the most remarkable ecological collapses of recent time, that of the passenger pigeon, Hadlock goes on to survey collapse processes across the entire spectrum of the natural and man-made world. He takes us through extreme weather events, technological disasters, evolutionary processes, crashing markets and companies, the chaotic nature of Earth's orbit, revolutionary political change, the spread and elimination of disease, and many other fascinating cases. His key thesis is that one or more of six fundamental dynamics consistently show up across this wide range. These six sources of collapse can all be best described and investigated using fundamental mathematical concepts. They include low probability events, group dynamics, evolutionary games, instability, nonlinearity, and network effects, all of which are explained in readily understandable terms. Almost the entirety of the book can be understood by readers with a minimal mathematical background, but even professional mathematicians are likely to get rich insights from the range of examples. The author tells his story with a warmly personal tone and weaves in many of his own experiences, whether from his consulting career of racing around the world trying to head off industrial disasters to his story of watching collapse after collapse in the evolution of an ecosystem on his New Hampshire farm.


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Correlation between human factors and the prevention of disasters
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ISBN: 6613717258 1280875941 9786613717252 1614990395 9781614990390 9781280875946 9781614990383 1614990387 Year: 2012 Publisher: Amsterdam Washington, D.C. IOS Press

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The nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, devastating floods, landslides, droughts, the erosion of tailings dams and desertification are just some of the natural and manmade disasters which have afflicted the Ukraine and neighboring countries in recent years. It is therefore entirely appropriate that the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW), Correlation between Human Factors and the Prevention of Catastrophes, was held in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine in September 2011. This book presents the proceedings of the ARW, which analyzed accumulated European theoretical knowledge and practical ex


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The Cultural Life of Catastrophes and Crises

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Catastrophes and crises are exceptions. They are disruptions of order. In various ways and to different degrees, they change and subvert what we regard as normal. They may occur on a personal level in the form of traumatic or stressful situations, on a social level in the form of unstable political, financial or religious situations, or on a global level in the form of environmental states of emergency. The main assumption in this book is that, in contrast to the directness of any given catastrophe and its obvious physical, economical and psychological consequences our understanding of catastrophes and crises is shaped by our cultural imagination. No matter in which eruptive and traumatizing form we encounter them, our collective repertoire of symbolic forms, historical sensibilities, modes of representation, and patterns of imagination determine how we identify, analyze and deal with catastrophes and crises. This book presents a series of articles investigating how we address and interpret catastrophes and crises in film, literature, art and theory, ranging from Voltaire's eighteenth-century Europe, haunted by revolutions and earthquakes, to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda to the bleak, prophetic landscapes of Cormac McCarthy.

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