18,231円 This volume discusses the increasing occurrence of floods and tornadoes in Southern Africa over the last few years. The book discusses existing flood and tornado management protocols, indigenous approaches to mitigate disaster risk, urban and peri-urban flooding, tornado-induced flooding and wind...

19,447円 This book provides an introduction to the critical role of ecosystem-based disaster risk resilience (Eco-DRR) for building community resilience to multiple environmental risks such as rising heat, water stress, and pollution. Blue-green infrastructure (BGI) is an Eco-DRR tool that is an under-exp...

9,948円 This book explores practices and approaches on pre-disaster prevention and post-disaster reconstruction for vulnerable countries and areas enhancing earthquake disaster resilience. Destructive earthquakes have frequently occurred in urban or rural areas around the world, causing severe damage on ...

310円 Dans "Documents sur les tremblements de terre et les phénomènes volcaniques au Japon", Alexis Perrey dresse un tableau détaillé du paysage sismique et volcanique de l'archipel nippon. Ce livre mêle une approche scientifique rigoureuse à un style documentaire accessible, offrant ainsi une investig...

12,154円 This book highlights the essential theoretical and practical aspects of lightning, lightning protection, safety and education. Additionally, several auxiliary topics that are required to understand the core themes are also included. The main objective of the contents is to enlighten the scientist...

9,948円 The book provides insights into community narratives concerning life in the face of creeping calamities through a case study from the Colombian Andes. It sets out to make sense of the lived experience of disasters that are slowly unfolding as well disasters that have not yet occurred. This book e...

21,878円 This book focuses on the mechanical properties and permeability of coal, and the gas flow in coal seams. Based on coal permeability models, it establishes different models for coal seam gas, from the linear flow model to the gas–solid coupling flow model. It also provides the theoretical basis fo...

950円 Il moderno fascino per il disastro è un sintomo del nostro rapporto con il futuro. Analizzando l’immaginario della catastrofe, dalle sue radici culturali e storiche nel Romanticismo, attraverso le narrazioni del cataclisma climatico e della Guerra fredda, fino alla popolarità contemporanea della ...

950円 Si sostiene che, nel momento in cui l’umanità si troverà quasi con le spalle al muro in conseguenza di disastri climatici planetari, essa saprà cambiare. Il problema qui è il “quasi”. Infatti, si suppone che l’evento che potrebbe indurci a cambiare radicalmente orientamento possa avere luogo trop...

19,447円 This book explains to governments, decision makers and disaster professionals the potential uses of recent technologies for disaster monitoring and risk reduction based on the knowledge and experience of prominent experts/researchers in the relevant fields. It discusses the application of recent ...

18,231円 This book provides hands-on conceptual, theoretical, and case study discussions on vulnerability and resilience in the global south. This book covers the core of adaptation strategies in developing countries context in an easy-to-follow theoretical and empirical examples. This book shares contemp...

9,285円 This book offers an extensive review of e-waste management in India, the world’s third‑largest producer of waste from electrical and electronic equipment. With a focus on the evolution of legalframeworks in India and the world, it presents impacts and outcomes; challenges and opportunities; and m...