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Disaster Response By Ceausescuâ€™S Communist Regime In Romania - The 1977 Earthquake

by Karin Steinbrueck

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 This book contains the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to trace the disaster response the regime engaged in, contextualizing its contribution to the public risk that remains in Romaniaâ€™s capital Bucharest.
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Agency In Poverty And War - Consciousness In Rural Human Development

by Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon

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 This book examines how people's self-awareness is affected by both internal and external factors amid war and poverty. It explores how agency has influenced the inward human development of rural women who face triple disadvantages related to gender, ethnicity and access to economic power.
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Environmental Non-Migration - Rethinking Sustainable Solutions For Climate-Induced Challenges

by Bishawjit Mallick

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 This book challenges the dominant narrative of migration as the default response to climate change, introducing the concept of Environmental Non-Migration (ENM).
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Time Of Disastrous Anticipations - Essays On Life In The Shadow Of Catastrophe

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 This book explores the pervasive anticipation of catastrophe in contemporary society, examining how temporal expectations shape personal and collective experiences and influence our perspectives and responses.
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Good Practices For Disaster Risk Management Of Cultural Heritage - Practices Of Itc Participants

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 This book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating good practices for disaster risk management of cultural heritage.
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Agency In Poverty And War - Consciousness In Rural Human Development

by Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon

~~60,94€~~ 54,85€ 10% OFF

 This book examines how people's self-awareness is affected by both internal and external factors amid war and poverty. It explores how agency has influenced the inward human development of rural women who face triple disadvantages related to gender, ethnicity and access to economic power.
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Disaster Response By Ceausescu'S Communist Regime In Romania - The 1977 Earthquake

by Karin Steinbrueck

~~60,94€~~ 54,85€ 10% OFF

 This book contains the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to trace the disaster response the regime engaged in, contextualizing its contribution to the public risk that remains in Romaniaâ€™s capital Bucharest.
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Religious Responses To Earthquake And Volcanic Eruption Disasters

by Angus Duncan, David Chester e John Duncan

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 This book argues that, although secular and religious perspectives on disasters have often conflicted, today there are grounds for believing that the worldâ€™s major faiths have much to contribute to the processes of post-disaster recovery and future disaster risk reduction (DRR).
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Good Practices For Disaster Risk Management Of Cultural Heritage - Practices Of Itc Participants

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 This book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating good practices for disaster risk management of cultural heritage.
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Good Practices For Disaster Risk Management Of Cultural Heritage - Practices Of Itc Participants

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 This book is a selection of case studies undertaken by cultural heritage and disaster risk management professionals across the world demonstrating good practices for disaster risk management of cultural heritage.
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Local Adaptation To Climate Change In South India - Challenges And The Future In The Tsunami-Hit Coastal Regions

by Devendraraj Madhanagopal

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 This book critically discusses the vulnerabilities and local adaptation actions of the traditional marine fishers of the tsunami-hit coastal regions of South India to climate change and risks,with an emphasis on their local institutions.
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Post-Earthquake City - Disaster And Recovery In Christchurch, New Zealand

by David Conradson, Eric Pawson, Harvey C. Perkins e Paul Cloke

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 This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider â€˜damage and displacementâ€™, â€˜recovery and renewalâ€™, and â€˜the city in transitionâ€™.
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Gender-Based Violence And Layered Disasters - Place, Culture And Survival

by Nahid Rezwana e Rachel Pain

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 This book investigates the widespread and persistent relationship between disasters and gender-based violence, drawing on new research with victim-survivors to show how the two forms of harm constitute â€˜layered disastersâ€™ in particular places, intensifying and reproducing one another.
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Climate Change And Risk In South And Southeast Asia - Sociopolitical Perspectives

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 This book, focuses on South and Southeast Asia, upgrades our understanding of the influence of multiple sociopolitical and governance factors on climate change and risks. It argues that the real solutions to climate change problems lie in societies, governance systems, non-state actors, and the power and politics underpinning these systems.
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Slow Disaster - Political Ecology Of Hazards And Everyday Life In The Brahmaputra Valley, Assam

by Mitul Baruah

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 This book presents a fascinating, ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra Valley as a whole.Written in an engaging style, full of the author''s insider perspectives, this insightful volume explores the processes of flooding and riverbank erosion in Majuli, including re-configuration of the island’s geographies, loss of local livelihoods, and large-scale displacement of the population. The book begins with an examination of the physical geography of Majuli and its ecological complexities, leading to discussion on the role of the state in water governance and hazard management, as well as popular resistance by the rural communities on the island. The book focuses on livelihoods as a way of offering economic context to living in challenging environmental conditions and examines the interactions between the state and a whole host of non-state actors, and the everyday, arbitrary functioning of the bureaucracy in a hazardscape.This volume is an invaluable resource for scholars interested in political ecology of hazards and vulnerability, water and hydraulic infrastructure, rural livelihoods and agrarian questions, state theorizations, island studies, and resistance and social movements, as well as those with an interest in northeast India more generally across various disciplines.
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Empowerment And Social Justice In The Wake Of Disasters - Occupy Sandy In Rockaway After Hurricane Sandy, Usa

by Sara Bondesson

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 This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment, and resistance in relation to disaster relief and recovery. It disentangles tensions and dilemmas within post-disaster empowerment, through a rich ethnographic narrative of the work of Occupy Sandy in Rockaway, NYC, after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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Health, Wellbeing And Community Recovery In Fukushima

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 This book examines the issue of disaster recovery in relation to community wellbeing and resilience, exploring the social, political, demographic and environmental changes in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
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Disaster Resilience In South Asia - Tackling The Odds In The Sub-Continental Fringes

by Iftekhar (University Of Newcastle, Australia) Ahmed, Kim (University Of Newcastle, Australia) Maund e Thayaparan (University Of Newcastle, Australia) Gajendran

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 This book considers the challenges of building disaster resilience in South Asia â€" a region that frequently experiences some of the most severe and devastating impacts of disasters.
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The Institutionalisation Of Disaster Risk Reduction - South Africa And Neoliberal Governmentality

by Gideon (North-West University, South Africa) Van Riet

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 The past three decades have seen a global shift in disaster management from an event driven response to a â€˜could-beâ€™ risk management approach. Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) has become entrenched as a dominant paradigm within the field of disaster management. More than a decade after adopting DRR legislation in South Africa there remains a dearth
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Climate, Environmental Hazards And Migration In Bangladesh

by Max Martin

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 This book traces the linkages between climate and environment-related hazards and migration, and attempts to dispel some popular myths. While the book takes Bangladesh as a case study, it will address the international debate over the linkages between climate, environment and migration, and highlight its conceptual and empirical dimensions. It p
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Invention Of Disaster - Power And Knowledge In Discourses On Hazard And Vulnerability

by Jc Gaillard

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 This book argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed for normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over the world. It takes a postcolonial approach to deconstruct concepts, methods, and forms of governments inherited from the Enlightenment.
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Earthquakes And Volcanic Activity On Islands - History And Contemporary Perspectives From The Azores

by Angus Duncan, David Chester, Nicolau Wallenstein e Rui Coutinho

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 This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruption in the Azores. Study is placed in the contexts of: the history and geography of this fascinating archipelago; progress being made in predicting future events and policies of disaster risk reduction.
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Disasters And Life In Anticipation Of Slow Calamity - Perspectives From The Colombian Andes

by Reidar Staupe-Delgado

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 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.
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Disaster Deaths - Trends, Causes And Determinants

by Bimal Kanti Paul

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 This book conducts a systematic inquiry into the tragic deaths caused by natural disasters at different geographic scales. It employs key disaster concepts and classification of disasters to understand the high mortality rates and the various factors associated with these deaths.
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