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“david etkin”

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  • Disaster Theory

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Concepts and Causes

    by David Etkin ...
    Disaster Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Concepts and Causes offers the theoretical background needed to understand what disasters are and why they occur. Drawing on related disciplines, including sociology, risk theory, and seminal research on disasters and emergency management, Disaster Theory clearly lays out the conceptual framework of the emerging field of disaster studies. Tailored ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

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  • Three Famines

    Starvation and Politics

    by Thomas Keneally ...
    Famine may be triggered by nature but its outcome arises from politics and ideology. In Three Famines, award-winning author Thomas Keneally uncovers the troubling truth -- that sustained widespread hunger is historically the outcome of government neglect and individual venality. Through the lens of three of the most disastrous famines in modern history -- the potato famine in Ireland, the famine ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Resilience Dividend

    Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

    by Judith Rodin ...
    Building resilience -- the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively -- is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm, a civil disturbance, an economic blow.Through an astonishing range of stories, Judith Rodin shows how people, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Risk Analysis and the Security Survey

    by James F. Broder, Eugene Tucker ...
    As there is a need for careful analysis in a world where threats are growing more complex and serious, you need the tools to ensure that sensible methods are employed and correlated directly to risk. Counter threats such as terrorism, fraud, natural disasters, and information theft with the Fourth Edition of Risk Analysis and the Security Survey. Broder and Tucker guide you through analysis to ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Next Catastrophe

    Reducing our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters

    by Charles Perrow ...
    Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold new way of thinking about disaster preparedness.Perrow argues that rather than laying exclusive ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Smart Cities in the Mediterranean

    Coping with Sustainability Objectives in Small and Medium-sized Cities and Island Communities

    Edited by Anastasia Stratigea, Elias Kyriakides, Chrysses Nicolaides ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges faced by ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Smart City

    How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space

    Edited by Renata Paola Dameri, Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European perspective. It presents both theoretical concepts as well as empirical studies and cases of smart city programs and their capacity to create value for citizens. The contributions in this book are a result of an increasing interest for this topic, supported by both national ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • My Storm

    Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

    by Edward J. Blakely, Henry Cisneros ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Disaster Planning for Libraries

    Process and Guidelines

    by Guy Robertson ...
    Series series Chandos Information Professional Series
    Libraries are constantly at risk. Every day, many libraries and their collections are damaged by fire, flooding, high winds, power outages, and criminal behaviour. Every library needs a plan to protect its staff, sites and collections, including yours. Disaster Planning for Libraries provides a practical guide to developing a comprehensive plan for any library. Twelve chapters cover essential ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • We Shall Not Be Moved

    Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina

    by Tom Wooten ...
    As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization. Their city was about to undertake the largest disaster recovery in American history, yet they faced a profound leadership vacuum: members of every tier of government, from the municipal to the federal level, had fallen down on the job. We Shall Not Be Moved tells the absorbing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Resilient City

    How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster

    Edited by Lawrence J. Vale, Thomas J. Campanella ...
    In 1871, the city of Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by what became known as The Great Fire. Thirty-five years later, San Francisco lay in smoldering ruins after the catastrophic earthquake of 1906. Or consider the case of the Jerusalem, the greatest site of physical destruction and renewal in history, which, over three millennia, has suffered wars, earthquakes, fires, twenty sieges, ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • Reducing Disaster Risk by Managing Urban Land Use

    Guidance Notes for Planners

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    This publication provides guidance for urban planners on how to use land use management-related tools they have at their disposal---land use planning, development control instruments, greenfield development, and urban redevelopment---to reduce disaster risk and contribute to strengthening urban resilience and sustainable urban development. The guidance provided in the document is further ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus