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  • Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

    Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025

    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2, 2017. The ... Read more

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  • Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia

    Sharing Lessons of Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Resource Management

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies
    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 ... Read more

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  • Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather

    A Coastal State's Adaptation Challenges and Successes

    Edited by Shirley Laska ...
    Series series Extreme Weather and Society
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book takes an in-depth look at Louisiana as a state which is ahead of the curve in terms of extreme weather events, both in frequency and magnitude, and in its responses to these challenges including recovery and enhancement of resiliency.Louisiana faced a major tropical catastrophe in the 21st century, and experiences the fastest rising sea ... Read more

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  • Belonging and Transnational Refugee Settlement

    Unsettling the Everyday and the Extraordinary

    by Jay Marlowe ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315268958, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.The image we have of refugees is one of displacement – from their homes, families and countries – and yet, refugee settlement is increasingly becoming an experience of living simultaneously in ... Read more

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  • Evolution, Monitoring and Predicting Models of Rockburst

    Precursor Information for Rock Failure

    by Chunlai Wang ...
    This open access book focuses on investigating predicting precursor information and key points of rockburst in mining engineering through laboratory experiment, theoretical analysis, numerical simulation and case studies. Understanding the evolution patterns for the microstructure instability of rock is a prerequisite for rockburst prediction. The book provides a guide for readers seeking to ... Read more

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  • Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience

    Case Studies from the African Diaspora

    Edited by Pamela Waldron-Moore ...
    Series Book 7 - Catastrophes in Context
    Disaster research has been studied from many angles, seldom targeting its implications for vulnerable territories in Africa. Entities most subject to the effects of climate change are often undeveloped and located in disadvantaged regions. Post-disaster communities need to scrutinize the social, political, economic, and cultural structures that stagnate sustainable growth. Acknowledging that low ... Read more

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  • Water and Earthquakes

    Series series Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences
    This open access book explores the interactions between water and earthquakes, including recent concerns about induced seismicity. It further highlights that a better understanding of the response of the water system to disturbances such as earthquakes is needed to safeguard water resources, to shield underground waste repositories, and to mitigate groundwater contamination. Although the effects ... Read more

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  • Wadi Flash Floods

    Challenges and Advanced Approaches for Disaster Risk Reduction

    Series series Natural Disaster Science and Mitigation Engineering: DPRI reports
    This open access book brings together research studies, developments, and application-related flash flood topics on wadi systems in arid regions. The major merit of this comprehensive book is its focus on research and technical papers as well as case study applications in different regions worldwide that cover many topics and answer several scientific questions.The book chapters comprehensively ... Read more

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  • The Demography of Disasters

    Impacts for Population and Place

    This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for and mitigating impacts from disasters in developed nations.Both slow onset (like the of loss polar ice from climate change) and ... Read more

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  • Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology

    Volume 1

    Edited by Atilla Ansal ...
    Series Book 34 - Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering
    This book collects 5 keynote and 15 topic lectures presented at the 2nd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (2ECEES), held in Istanbul, Turkey, from August 24 to 29, 2014. The conference was organized by the Turkish Earthquake Foundation - Earthquake Engineering Committee and Prime Ministry, Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency under the auspices of the European ... Read more

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  • Creating Resilient Landscapes in an Era of Climate Change

    Global Case Studies and Real-World Solutions

    Series series Routledge Studies in Conservation and the Environment
    This book delivers a realistic and feasible framework for creating resilient landscapes in an era of anthropogenic climate change.From across six continents, this book presents fifteen case studies of differing sociocultural, economic, and biophysical backgrounds that showcase opportunities and limitations for creating resilient landscapes throughout the world. The potential to create socio ... Read more

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  • Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 1 Issue 2, 2022

    Series Book 2 - Progress in Landslide Research and Technology
    This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). It gives an overview of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk. ... Read more

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  • Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 2 Issue 1, 2023

    Series Book 1 - Progress in Landslide Research and Technology
    This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 ... Read more

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  • A matemática da gestão e a alma lameada

    crítica à mediação em licenciamentos e desastres na mineração

    O leitor encontrou uma atividade de busca de dois livros, os caminhos da investigação sobre a forma de gestão e resolução de conflitos, a partir de dois casos encontrados, uma atividade de busca de ferro no Brasil tem como causadores sérios conflitos e acidentes ambientais. As experiências neste livro apontam para novas modalidades institucionalizadas de regulação dos conflitos e dos desastres. ... Read more

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  • Soil Erosion and Carbon Dynamics

    The most complete, nonpartisan source of information on this hot agronomic topic available today, this book brings together a diverse group of papers and data to resolve the debate between sedimentologists and soil scientists and agronomists over whether the effects of soil erosion on carbon and atmospheric CO2 is beneficial or destructive. Divided into four sections, it offers data on how soil ... Read more

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  • Climate Adaptation Modelling

    Series series Springer Climate
    This open access book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled by this literature: the still existing gap between adaptation science and modelling and the possibility to effectively access and exploit the information produced by policy making at different levels, international, national and local. To do so, the book presents the proceedings of a high-level expert workshop on adaptation ... Read more

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  • Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land

    Disciplinary Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary Challenge

    This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional “grey infrastructures” and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same time, such ... Read more

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  • Gaian Angels, Book 1: The Weavers Awake

    by Iom Kosta ...
    Series Book 1 - Gaian Angels
    We scour the heavens in search of visitors, but what if they’re already here amongst us—just waiting for their awakening?And what if…you’re one of them?★★★This is the true story of a young visionary who predicted the overwhelming extent of the present climatic cataclysm, and this book is now proof since he published it in 2011, when we still believed the collapse of our civilisation was impossible ... Read more

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  • Tourism and Heritage in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone

    Series series Heritage, Tourism, and Community
    Tourism and Heritage in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) uses an ethnographic lens to explore the dissonances associated with the commodification of Chornobyl’s heritage.The book considers the role of the guides as experience brokers, focusing on the synergy between tourists and guides in the performance of heritage interpretation. Banaszkiewicz proposes to perceive tour guides as important ... Read more

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  • Wildland Fire Smoke in the United States

    A Scientific Assessment

    This open access book synthesizes current information on wildland fire smoke in the United States, providing a scientific foundation for addressing the production of smoke from wildland fires. This will be increasingly critical as smoke exposure and degraded air quality are expected to increase in extent and severity in a warmer climate. Accurate smoke information is a foundation for helping ... Read more

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  • Human Security and Empowerment in Asia

    Beyond the Pandemic

    Series series Politics in Asia
    In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this edited volume revisits the framework of human security and development. It examines the protection-empowerment nexus as applied to various vulnerable groups and populations affected by the pandemic.While the conventional human security literature has focused on top-down protection, this book offers new perspectives on human security by exploring bottom ... Read more

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  • Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 2 Issue 2, 2023

    Series Book 2 - Progress in Landslide Research and Technology
    This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 ... Read more

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  • Contextualizing Disaster

    Series Book 1 - Catastrophes in Context
    Contextualizing Disaster offers a comparative analysis of six recent "highly visible" disasters and several slow-burning, "hidden," crises that include typhoons, tsunamis, earthquakes, chemical spills, and the unfolding consequences of rising seas and climate change. The book argues that, while disasters are increasingly represented by the media as unique, exceptional, newsworthy events, it is a ... Read more

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  • Greening Water Risks

    Natural Assurance Schemes

    Series series Water Security in a New World
    Confronted with an increase in floods, droughts and other natural hazards, cities and regions are alert to find climate proof solutions that overcome the limitations of traditional grey infrastructure.Nature-based solutions are proposed as a valid way to address risk and adapt to climate change while increasing resilience through the multiple benefits they generate. However, in spite of the ... Read more

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