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Unraveling environmental disasters
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ISBN: 1283716496 0123973171 0123970261 9780123973177 9781283716499 9780123970268 Year: 2013 Publisher: Waltham, Mass. : Elsevier,

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Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways that the disaster could have been prevented and how the risk of similar disasters can be minimized in the future. Treats disasters as complex systems.Provides predictions based upon sound science, such as what the buildup of certain radiant gases in the troposphere will do, or what will happen if current transoceanic crude oil transport continues.Considers the impact of human systems


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Education and natural disasters : education as a humanitarian response
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ISBN: 147255292X 1283874067 1441118381 9781441118387 1441165134 9781441165138 9781283874069 9781441199911 1441199918 9781441166999 1441166998 Year: 2013 Publisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"Examines the relationship natural disasters have with education in different international contexts, from the USA, Australia, India, China, the UK and Japan"-- "What is the relationship between education and natural disasters? Can education play a role in ameliorating and mitigating them, preparing people in how to respond, and even helping to prevent them? If so, how? Drawing on research carried out in a number of different countries, including Australia, China, India, Japan, the UK and the USA, the contributors consider the role of education in relation to natural disasters. The case studies expand conceptual and empirical understandings of the understudied relationship between education and natural disasters, uncover the potential and the limitations of education for mitigating, responding to, and potentially preventing, natural disasters. The contributors also consider the extent to which so-called natural disasters, such as mudslides caused by deforestation and flooding areas built on known flood plains, are linked to human behaviour and how education can impact on these"--

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