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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “daisuke sasaki”
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  • Financing Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation

    Asian Perspectives

    Edited by Mikio Ishiwatari, Daisuke Sasaki ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    As the population is growing and urbanization is progressing, higher numbers of people are exposed to disaster risks, especially in the developing countries. Climate change is further worsening the impacts of existing risks and introducing new ones. It is imperative that countries need to invest more in disaster risk reduction (DRR) as well as climate change adaptation (CCA) not only to minimize ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Prioritizing Development

    A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals

    Edited by Bjorn Lomborg ...
    This book is a unique guide to making the world a better place. Experts apply a critical eye to the United Nations' Sustainable Development agenda, also known as the Global Goals, which will affect the flow of $2.5 trillion of development aid up until 2030. Renowned economists, led by Bjorn Lomborg, determine what pursuing different targets will cost and achieve in social, environmental and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Disaster Management: Global Challenges and Local Solutions

    by Rajib Shaw ...
    We are becoming increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters. Disaster Management is therefore an important topic for all—from high school students to researchers. Disaster data in recent years show increasing trends in physical, social and economic impacts. While a global perspective of disaster management is necessary, it is also important to emphasize local solutions. This book targets some of ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Global Problems, Smart Solutions

    Costs and Benefits

    Edited by Bjørn Lomborg ...
    Every four years since 2004, the Copenhagen Consensus Center has organized and hosted a high profile thought experiment about how a hypothetical extra $75 billion of development assistance money might best be spent to solve twelve of the major crises facing the world today. Collated in this specially commissioned book, a group of more than 50 experts make their cases for investment, discussing how ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Competition and Cooperation in Economics and Business

    Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, Depok, Indonesia, November 7-9, 2016: Topics in Economics and Business

    Edited by Lindawati Gani, Zaäfri Husodo, Ari Kuncoro, Beta Gitaharie ...
    Asia and the Pacific have become the growth engine of the world economy with the contribution of two-third of the global growth. The book discusses current issues in economics, business, and accounting in which economic agents, as individuals, entrepreneurs and professionals, as well as countries in the Asia and Pacific regions compete and collaborate with each other and with the rest of the globe ... Read more

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  • Affordable Excellence

    The Singapore Healthcare Story

    by William A. Haseltine ...
    A Brookings Institution Press and the National University of Singapore Press publicationThis is the story of the Singapore healthcare system: how it works, how it is financed, its history, where it is going, and what lessons it may hold for national health systems around the world. Singapore ranks sixth in the world in healthcare outcomes, yet spends proportionally less on healthcare than any ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

    Edited by Almas Heshmati, Esfandiar Maasoumi, Guanghua Wan ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable measures. Asia is facing many challenges arising from population growth, rapid urbanization, provision of services, climate change and the need to redress declining growth after the ... Read more

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  • The Lancet: Universal Health Coverage

    Global Health Series

    Edited by The Lancet ...
    Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, has stated that "Universal Health Coverage is the single most powerful concept that public health has to offer." In this Series from The Lancet, the first of three papers explores the evidence on the links between expansions in coverage and population health outcomes. The second paper looks at the political and economic dimensions ... Read more

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  • Health Care in Malaysia

    The Dynamics of Provision, Financing and Access

    Edited by Heng Leng Chee, Simon Barraclough ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    The health care system in Malaysia has undergone a fundamental transformation over the last two decades. This book examines this transformation and explores the pressing issues it faces today. It includes coverage of:the evolution of the system since independence, from the colonial legacy of national provision bequeathed from the British to the impact of the global ideological shift against ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters

    by Alexandre Borde ...
    Since the turn of the millennium, more than one million people have been killed and 2.3 billion others have been directly affected by natural disasters around the world. In cases like the 2010 Haiti earthquake or the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, these disasters have time and time again wrecked large populations and national infrastructures. While recognizing that improved rescue, evacuation, and ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Handbook Of Disaster Risk Reduction & Management: Climate Change And Natural Disasters

    by Christian N Madu, Chu-hua Kuei ...
    Climate change is increasingly of great concern to the world community. The earth has witnessed the buildup of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere, changes in biodiversity, and more occurrences of natural disasters. Recently, scientists have begun to shift their emphasis away from curbing carbon dioxide emission to adapting to carbon dioxide emission. The increase in natural disasters around ... Read more

    $206.99 USD

  • Disaster Management

    International Lessons in Risk Reduction, Response and Recovery

    Edited by Alejandro Lopez-Carresi, Maureen Fordham, Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, Jc Gaillard ...
    There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means that valuable lessons are not learned and people die or suffer as a result. This book opens a dialogue between theory and practice. It offers vital lessons to practitioners from scholarship on natural hazards, disaster risk management and reduction and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD