You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
This century's major disasters from Hurricane Katrina and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown to devastating Nepalese earthquakes and the recent crippling volcanic eruptions and tsunamis in Tonga have repeatedly taught that government institutions are ill-prepared for major disaster events, leaving the most vulnerable among us unprotected. These tragedies represent just the beginning of a new era of disaster – an era of floods, heatwaves, droughts, and pandemics fueled by climate change. Laws and government institutions have struggled to adapt to the scope of the challenge; old models of risk no longer apply. This Handbook provides timely guidance, taking stock of the field of disaster law and policy as it has developed since Hurricane Katrina. Experts from a wide range of academic and practical backgrounds address the root causes of disaster vulnerability and offer solutions to build more resilient communities to ensure that no one is left behind.
This book argues that the creative industries, which include publishing, music, cinema, crafts, and design, have a crucial role to play in the future of culture, and contribute to national GDP and wealth creation in both the formal and informal economies. The book is the collection of papers from researchers, academicians, and industrialists in different, allied fields of design, and covers the areas of applied art and design; built environment; fashion and textiles; and spatial design and interior environments.
The Cold War reconsidered as a limited nuclear war “Inexorable clarity and care for his fellow humans mark Robert Jacobs's guide to the Cold War as a limited nuclear war, whose harms disfigure any possible future.”—Norma Field, author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century’s End In the fall of 1961, President Kennedy somberly warned Americans about deadly radioactive fallout clouds extending hundreds of miles from H‑bomb detonations, yet he approved ninety‑six US nuclear weapon tests for 1962. Cold War nuclear testing, production, and disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima have exposed millions to dangerous radioactive particles; these millions are the global hibaku...
This books gives a complete overview of the Soils of Slovenia, from soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil propoerties, classification, fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management, soils and humans, soils and industries and future soils issues.
This unique book dicusses the latest research, innovative ideas, challenges and computational intelligence (CI) solutions in sustainable computing. It presents novel, in-depth fundamental research on achieving a sustainable lifestyle for society, either from a methodological or from an application perspective. Sustainable computing has expanded to become a significant research area covering the fields of computer science and engineering, electrical engineering and other engineering disciplines, and there has been an increase in the amount of literature on aspects sustainable computing such as energy efficiency and natural resources conservation that emphasizes the role of ICT (information an...
None
Enajsta knjiga vsebuje 27 prispevkov, predvsem s področja uporabe geografskih informacijskih sistemov na področju geografije, geodezije, kartografije, geologije, naravnih nesreč, varovanja naravne in kulturne dediščine in gospodarstva.
V drugem zvezku (osebnosti s priimki na črke B–Bla) Novega Slovenskega biografskega leksikona v 257 geslih nadaljujemo s predstavitvijo najvidnejših slovenskih in s Slovenijo povezanih osebnosti iz vseh obdobij naše zgodovine. Glavna odlika leksikona je izčrpen in sorazmerno obsežen opis življenja in dela osebe. Poleg podrobnih stvarnih podatkov o rojstvu, šolanju in zaposlitvah, značilnih za leksikone, je pogosto predstavljeno tudi kulturnozgodovinsko ozadje posameznikovega dela in delovanja. Ker so avtorji gesel praviloma tudi strokovnjaki s področij, na katerih so delovale ali še delujejo predstavljene osebnosti, je vsebinska predstavitev še posebej temeljita in posodobljena z novimi spoznanji. Tiskano izdajo dopolnjuje spletni portal Slovenska biografija (www.slovenska-biografija.si ; urednica Petra Vide Ogrin, Biblioteka SAZU), v katerem je trenutno okoli 6000 gesel.