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Floodplain Management
A flooding river is very hard to stop. Many residents of the United States have discovered this the hard way. Right now, over five million Americans hold flood insurance policies from the National Flood Insurance Program, which estimates that flooding causes at least six billion dollars in damages every year. Like rivers after a rainstorm, the financial costs are rising along with the toll on residents. And the worst is probably yet to come. Most scientists believe that global climate change will result in increases in flooding. The authors of this book present a straightforward argument: the time to stop a flooding rivers is before is before it floods. Floodplain Management outlines a new p...
Proposed Yukon-Charley National Rivers, Alaska
A detailed assessment of environmental impacts associated with the establishment of the proposed refuge and the management of these lands. Includes an inventory of the resources of the area.
Monitoring Land Supply with Geographic Information Systems
Ein Handbuch für Städteplaner, kommunale Regierungen und private Bauherren: Beschrieben werden die technisch besten Landinformationssysteme, Hochpräzisionstechnologien zur Feststellung des Eigentümers und Ansätze zur Abschätzung der Kosten der Landerschließung (Straßenbau, Transportmittel, soziale Einrichtungen). (07/00)
Anarchist Pedagogies
Education is a challenging subject for anarchists. Many are critical about working within a state-run education system that is embedded in hierarchical, standardized, and authoritarian structures. Numerous individuals and collectives envision the creation of counterpublics or alternative educational sites as possible forms of resistance, while other anarchists see themselves as “saboteurs” within the public arena—believing that there is a need to contest dominant forms of power and educational practices from multiple fronts. Of course, if anarchists agree that there are no blueprints for education, the question remains, in what dynamic and creative ways can we construct nonhierarchical...
Emergency Management
Following in the footsteps of its popular predecessor, the second edition of Emergency Management: The American Experience 19002010 provides the background needed to understand the key political and policy underpinnings of emergency management, exploring how major "focusing events" have shaped the development of emergency management. It builds on
