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Mobilities Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events 2
Mobilities Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events 2 covers our need to understand how the interaction of hydro-meteorological, social and development dynamics combine to bring improvement to or a worsening of both mobile and immobile exposure. The book provides a summary of the interdisciplinary work done over the past ten years. Residential mobility-the way in which the occupation of flood zones evolves over time-and its resulting immobile exposure are also at the heart of this work. In addition, the book explores how climate change and its relation to fast floods in various regions of the world, especially the Mediterranean, is creating extreme events.
Weather and Society
Weather and Society: Toward Integrated Approaches provides the first interdisciplinary approach to the subject of weather and society. This guide to the evolving set of problem-solving approaches to weather’s societal issues successfully integrates social science’s techniques, concepts and methodologies into meteorological research and practice. Drawing especially on the work of the WAS*IS workshops (Weather and Society * Integrated Studies), this important reference offers a framework for starting to understand how the consideration of societal impacts can enhance the scientific disciplines that address the scope and impacts of weather, particularly meteorology. Filled with tools, conce...
Mobility in the Face of Extreme Hydrometeorological Events 1
Mobilities Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events 1: Defining the Relevant Scales of Analysis provides a summary of the interdisciplinary work done over the past ten years on the exposure of daily mobility. Residential mobility, the way in which the occupation of the flood zones evolves with time, and the resulting immobile exposure are also at the heart of this work. In the face of recrudescence and the intensification of fast floods, the book seeks to understand how the interaction of hydro-meteorological, social and development dynamics combine to bring about an improvement or, on the contrary, a worsening of both mobile and immobile exposure. The book relies on different fields and st...
Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice
Floods cause distress and damage wherever and whenever they happen. Flooding from rivers, estuaries and the sea threatens many millions of people worldwide and economic and insurance losses from flooding have increased significantly since 1990. Based on the work of leading researchers, this book provides an overview of advances in this important subject. It covers all aspects of flood risk including the causes of floods; their impacts on people, property and the environment; and portfolios of risk management measurement. Additional topics include climate change, estimation of extremes, flash floods, flood forecasting and warning, inundation modeling, systems analysis, uncertainty, international programs, and flood defense infrastructure and assets. The book also examines environmental, human, and social impacts; vulnerability and resilience; risk sharing; and civil contingency planning and emergency management.
Mobilités face aux événements hydrométéorologiques extrêmes 2
Les événements hydrométéorologiques extrêmes se multiplient sous l’effet des dérèglements climatiques. Il est aujourd’hui nécessaire de mieux anticiper les interactions problématiques entre dynamiques physiques et sociales afin d’en minorer leurs conséquences. Cet ouvrage collectif, fruit du travail d’une équipe interdisciplinaire, vise à explorer les dynamiques sociales et hydrologiques pour comprendre les mécanismes qui mènent soit à des catastrophes, soit à des événements d’impacts limités, et ainsi de mieux s’y préparer. Centré sur les crues rapides qui affectent particulièrement le bassin méditerranéen, cet ouvrage contribue à mieux caractériser les nombreuses dimensions de ces événements, de leur prévision à leurs conséquences en termes d’exposition humaine, de développement territorial et de mobilité sociale. Alors que le premier volume explore la question des échelles d’analyse sociohydrologique de l’exposition des mobilités sociales aux crues rapides, ce volume traite de la question des rythmes d’exposition et d’adaptation à de tels phénomènes.
Mobilités face aux événements hydrométéorologiques extrêmes 1
L’interaction entre mobilité des hommes et dynamique des crues aboutit trop souvent à des tragédies qui pourraient être évitées. Cet ouvrage collectif, fruit du travail d’une équipe interdisciplinaire, vise à explorer les dynamiques sociales et hydrologiques pour comprendre les mécanismes qui mènent soit à des catastrophes, soit à des événements d’impacts limités. Centré sur les crues rapides qui affectent le bassin méditerranéen, cet ouvrage contribue à définir ce qui caractérise les événements ayant un fort impact social, hydrologique, médiatique ou territorial. Il explore les problèmes spécifiques de la prévision de ces événements et étudie leurs conséquences en termes de réglementation, de développement territorial et de mobilité sociale. En termes méthodologiques, il traite également de l’intérêt d’une approche multiscalaire dans l’analyse sociohydrologique de l’exposition des mobilités sociales aux crues rapides.
Ecological Policy Handbook - Vol. II
Areas of concern are identified as critical natural services that have been exploited beyond their regeneration capacity. In this second Volume, the concept of sustainable scale is assessed, with some limits and thresholds underlined. It should be noted that environmental impacts, combined with ethical and cultural issues, will irrevocably damage life-support natural functions if not corrected. The hole in the ozone layer, biodiversity, climate change, energy, population, soil fertility, toxic substances, water, commerce and trade, natural disasters, and humans threaten all critical ecosystems. The available scientific data, as time passes more precise and reliable, show humans have a key role in this situation, also for inability to take a proactive part in political decision making. In this context, attention was given to the role of humanity intoxicated by the current economic paradigm, which is ruled by market laws that aim to obtain a mere financial advantage.
Food Health
Nutritional Anthropology and public health research and programming have employed similar methodologies for decades; many anthropologists are public health practitioners while many public health practitioners have been trained as medical or biological anthropologists. Recognizing such professional connections, this volume provides in-depth analysis and comprehensive review of methods necessary to design, plan, implement and analyze public health programming using anthropological best practices. To illustrates the rationale for use of particular methods, each chapter elaborates a case study from the author's own work, showing why particular methods were adopted in each case.
Research Methods for Anthropological Studies of Food and Nutrition
The dramatic increase in all things food in popular and academic fields during the last two decades has generated a diverse and dynamic set of approaches for understanding the complex relationships and interactions that determine how people eat and how diet affects culture. These volumes offer a comprehensive reference for students and established scholars interested in food and nutrition research in Nutritional and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology, Socio-Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology, Food Studies and Applied Public Health.
