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Springer Polar Sciences Serie de eBooks

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  • Governance of Arctic Shipping

    Rethinking Risk, Human Impacts and Regulation

    Edición de Aldo Chircop, Floris Goerlandt, Claudio Aporta, Ronald Pelot ...
    Series series Springer Polar Sciences
    This open access book is a result of the Dalhousie-led research project Safe Navigation and Environment Protection, supported by a grant from the Ocean Frontier Institute’s the Canada First Research Excellent Fund (CFREF). The book focuses on Arctic shipping and investigates how ocean change and anthropogenic impacts affect our understanding of risk, policy, management and regulation for safe ... Leer más

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  • China as a Polar Great Power

    de Anne-Marie Brady ...
    China has emerged as a member of the elite club of nations who are powerful at both global poles. Polar states are global giants, strong in military, scientific, and economic terms. The concept of a polar great power is relatively unknown in international relations studies; yet China, a rising power globally, is now widely using this term to categorize its aspirations and emphasize the ... Leer más

    $30.39 USD

  • Methods of Disaster Research

    de Robert A. Stallings ...
    The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these methods must be applied under unique circumstances. Researchers new to this field need to understand how the disaster context affects the application of the methods of research. This volume, written by some of the worlds leading specialists in disaster research, provides for the first ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD

  • Breaking the Ice

    Canada, Sovereignty, and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf

    de Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon ...
    Series Libro 3 - Contemporary Canadian Issues
    The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017The Arctic seabed, with its vast quantities of undiscovered resources, is the twenty-first century’s frontier.In Breaking the Ice: Canada, Sovereignty and the Arctic Extended Continental Shelf, Arctic policy expert Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon examines the political, legal, and scientific aspects of Canada’s efforts to delineate its Arctic extended continental shelf. ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Scramble for the Poles

    The Geopolitics of the Arctic and Antarctic

    de Klaus Dodds, Mark Nuttall ...
    In August 2007 a Russian flag was planted under the North Pole during a scientific expedition triggering speculation about a new scramble for resources beneath the thawing ice.But is there really a global grab for Polar territory and resources? Or are these activities vastly exaggerated? In this rich and wide-ranging book, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall look behind the headlines and hyperbole to ... Leer más

    $21.00 USD

  • The Demography of Disasters

    Impacts for Population and Place

    Edición de Dávid Karácsonyi, Andrew Taylor, Deanne Bird ...
    Series series History (R0)
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Rising Sea Levels

    An Introduction to Cause and Impact

    de Hunt Janin, Scott A. Mandia ...
    The fundamental point of this book is that, in the past, the world's political, economic, military and social development took place during a time of relatively stable sea level. That time, however, is now over: The world must begin to cope with rising seas.This book is a wide-ranging introductory survey. It addresses global warming, the hydrologic cycle, why we should care about the rise of the ... Leer más

    $16.39 USD

  • Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

    Edición de Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, JC Gaillard ...
    The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools.Organized into five ... Leer más

    $110.99 USD

  • Polar Cousins

    Comparing Antarctic and Arctic Geostrategic Futures

    de Christian Leuprecht ...
    Series series Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies
    Geopolitics and climate change now have immediate consequences for national and international security interests across the Arctic and Antarctic. The world’s polar regions are contested and strategically central to geopolitical rivalry. At the same time, rapid political, social, and environmental change presents unprecedented challenges for governance, environmental protection, and maritime ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

    Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025

    Edición de Kyoji Sassa, Matjaž Mikoš, Yueping Yin ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Digital Oil

    Machineries of Knowing

    de Eric Monteiro ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    How is digitalization of the offshore oil industry fundamentally changing how we understand work and ways of knowing?Digitalization sits at the forefront of public and academic conversation today, calling into question how we work and how we know. In Digital Oil, Eric Monteiro uses the Norwegian offshore oil and gas industry as a lens to investigate the effects of digitalization on embodied labor, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The World of the Seafarer

    Qualitative Accounts of Working in the Global Shipping Industry

    Edición de Victor Oyaro Gekara, Helen Sampson ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This open access book constitutes an ethnographic mosaic which depicts the contextual complexities of the life and work of seafarers who are employed in the international merchant cargo fleet. The collection is based upon the observations and interviews of researchers in multiple disciplines. It is woven together to offer a richly detailed insight into the ways in which a complex global industry ... Leer más

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