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Climate Change as a Threat to Peace
  • Language: en

Climate Change as a Threat to Peace

The volume takes a look at how impacts of climate change on cultural heritage and cultural diversity may challenge sustainable global peace. While the importance of the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflicts becomes recognized, the role of cultural policy as a reconciliatory, proactive element of sustainable peace has been underestimated.

Disaster Resilience of Education Systems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Disaster Resilience of Education Systems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-02
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  • Publisher: Springer

Education is regarded as a cross-cutting issue for disaster risk reduction (DRR) through reviewing the Sendai Framework for DRR (SFDRR) 2015–2030. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the education sector is one of the important efforts to enhance resilience in a community. DRR in the education sector not only focuses on provision of disaster education, but also includes securing a safe school environment, developing school disaster management plans, and building the capacity of school teachers and local educational officers. Japan, with its wealth of experience in DRR, has developed a good resilient system in its education sector, which has been tested and revised through experi...

The Industrial Arts in Spain
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

The Industrial Arts in Spain

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1879
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Designing Resilience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Designing Resilience

In the wake of severe climatic events and terrorist acts and the emergence of dangerous technologies, communities, nations, and global organizations have diligently sought to create strategies to prepare for such events. Designing Resilience presents case studies of extreme events and analyzes the ability of affected individuals, institutions, governments, and technological systems to cope with disaster. This volume defines resilience as it relates to disaster management at specific stages: mitigation, prevention, preparation, and response and recovery. The book illustrates models by which to evaluate resilience at levels ranging from individuals to NGOs to governmental jurisdictions and exa...

The Selection and Use of Essential Medicines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 144

The Selection and Use of Essential Medicines

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: WHO

This report presents the recommendations of the WHO Expert Committee responsible for updating the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. The first part contains a progress report on the new procedures for updating the Model List and the development of the WHO Essential Medicines Library. It continues with a section on changes made in revising the Model List followed by a review of some sections such as hypertensive medicines and fast track procedures for deleting items. Annexes include the 13th version of the Model List and items on the list sorted according to their 5-level Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical classification codes.

Disaster Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

Disaster Education

Offers an informative introduction to the subject of disaster risk reduction education and highlights key places of education such as family, community, school, and higher education. This book describes and demonstrates different aspects of education in an easy-to-understand form with academic research and practical field experiences.

El Japón contemporáneo
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 236

El Japón contemporáneo

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Environmental Education in the Light of the Tbilisi Conference
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 110

Environmental Education in the Light of the Tbilisi Conference

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