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    This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings. Traditional warnings approach warning technology, design, and application from a ... Leer más

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  • Handbook of Disaster Research

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This second edition of the Handbook reflects some of the foundational topics for disaster studies; current substantive, methodological or theoretical topics of interest; as well as new and emerging topics in the field. While highlighting some of the iconic themes of the 1st Edition, including what is a disaster; morbidity and mortality associated with disasters; gender and disasters; and race, ... Leer más

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    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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  • The Academic Portfolio

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  • Behind Human Error

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

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    The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last 50 years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic ... Leer más

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  • Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

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  • Methods of Disaster Research

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