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  • Ecosystem Services of Headwater Catchments

    Edited by Josef Křeček, Martin Haigh, Thomas Hofer, Eero Kubin, Catrin Promper ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book addresses the evaluation of environmental impacts and services identified in headwaters of different eco-zones around the world. It presents 24 papers selected from contributions to recent meetings of the European Forestry Commission Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds, which is coordinated by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). Through ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Floods in a Megacity

    Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

    by Ashraf Dewan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly in urban agglomerations of 10 million people or more, floods could cause widespread ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Global Change and Regional Impacts

    Water Availability and Vulnerability of Ecosystems and Society in the Semiarid Northeast of Brazil

    Edited by Jose C. de Araujo, Maarten Krol, Thomas Gaiser, Horst Frischkorn ...
    Global climatic change will most likely affect natural resources and human living conditions in semiarid regions. This volume presents disciplinary as well as integrative methods to assess these impacts considering the interactions between climate variability and change, water availability, land-use systems, and quality of life. Taking the semiarid northeastern area of Brazil as an example, a wide ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Superstorm Sandy

    The Inevitable Destruction and Reconstruction of the Jersey Shore

    by Diane C. Bates ...
    Series series Nature, Society, and Culture
    Sandy was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history after Katrina, but the waters had barely receded from the Jersey coast when massive efforts began to “Restore the Shore.” Why do people build in areas open to repeated natural disasters? And why do they return to these areas in the wake of major devastation? Drawing on a variety of insights from environmental sociology, Superstorm Sandy answers ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Urban Vulnerability and Climate Change in Africa

    A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Sandra Fohlmeister, Gertrud Jørgensen, Kumelachew Yeshitela, Wilbard J. Kombe, Adrien Coly, Stephan Pauleit, Sigrun Kabisch, Ingo Simonis, Paolo Gasparini, Sarah Lindley ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Urbanisation and climate change are among the major challenges for sustainable development in Africa. The overall aim of this book is to present innovative approaches to vulnerability analysis and for enhancing the resilience of African cities against climate change-induced risks. Locally adapted IPCC climate change scenarios, which also consider possible changes in urban population, have been ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia

    Progress, Challenges, and Issues

    Edited by Riyanti Djalante, Matthias Garschagen, Frank Thomalla, Rajib Shaw ...
    Series series Disaster Risk Reduction
    This book is a unique, transdisciplinary summary of the state of the art of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Indonesia. It provides a comprehensive overview of disaster risk governance across all levels and multiple actors including diverse perspectives from practitioners and researchers on the challenges and progress of DRR in Indonesia. The book includes novel and emerging topics such as the ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Communities and Livelihood Strategies in Developing Countries

    Edited by Keshav Lall Maharjan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Sustainability of rural communities is threatened by a plethora of factors including climate change and disasters which interact in an intricate manner in making rural people vulnerable and poor. This book is the output of empirical research on communities and livelihood strategies in developing countries. It reveals how rural communities are functioning and earning their livelihoods by making the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Extreme Weather, Health, and Communities

    Interdisciplinary Engagement Strategies

    Edited by Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg, William A. Sprigg ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume presents a unique interdisciplinary approach, drawing on expertise in both the natural and social sciences. A primary goal is to present a scientific and socially integrated perspective on place-based community engagement, extreme weather, and health. Each year extreme weather is leading to natural disasters around the world and exerting huge social and health costs. The International ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Integrated Risk Governance

    Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters

    Edited by Peijun Shi, Carlo Jaeger, Qian Ye ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    "Integrated Risk Governance: Science Plan and Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters" is the first book in the IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series. It consists of two parts: Part I: Integrated Risk Governance Project Science Plan, which outlines the challenge, research programme, outcomes, and implementation strategy of the IRG Project; and Part II: Case Studies of Large-scale Disasters, ... Read more

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  • Novel Methods for Monitoring and Managing Land and Water Resources in Siberia

    Edited by Lothar Mueller, Askhad K. Sheudshen, Frank Eulenstein ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents an analysis of land and water resources in Siberia, initially characterizing the landscapes, their ecosystems, crucial processes, human impacts on soil and water quality, and the status quo of available research. Further chapters deal with modern monitoring and management methods that can lead to a significant knowledge shift and initiate sustainable soil and water resources use ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Risk Governance

    The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

    Edited by Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Groundwater in the Arab Middle East

    by Wolfgang Wagner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book gives an outline of prevailing hydrogeologic conditions in the Arab Middle East together with the geologic background. Emphasis is given to relationships between the main features influencing the hydrogeologic conditions - regional geologic developments, paleogeographic conditions, morphology, climate and paleo-climate - and the resulting hydrogeologic features: formation of aquifers, ... Read more

    $98.09 USD