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Local Disaster Management
Local Disaster Management explores what resilience means for local communities and local governments on the front line of responding to disasters and emergencies. Disaster management is often seen as a major international issue undertaken by global actors such as the UN, Red Cross and Red Crescent. Yet fundamentally, all disasters are local. Every disaster, regardless of its type, affects individuals, families and communities before they escalate to encompassing one or many communities or nations. This volume therefore explores fundamental issues of disaster and emergency management at the local level. What is resilience? What does resilience mean for a local government seeking to lessen the...
Design for Emergency Management
Through a combination of theory, practice, and a range of interdisciplinary case studies, this book expands how we define and think about the critical role and relationship between design and emergencies. This role extends far beyond aesthetics: the book highlights the urgency of ensuring that a wide range of stakeholders and a diverse representation of the public comes together to work towards preventing disasters. Design in the context of disasters, such as earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding and (wild) fires, provides new ways of looking at challenges. It contributes methods to actively engage communities in managing and minimizing disaster risk. Contributors present the latest research on ...
Grief, Identity, and the Arts
Grief, Identity and the Arts addresses the interplay between grief and identity in a broad range of artistic disciplines, historical periods, and geographical areas.
Luz; Câmera & Rock´n´ Roll
O livro, Luz; Câmera & Rock n Roll” traz em seu bojo, mais de cem resenhas sobre filmes baseados no Rock, sob várias modalidades. Este volume III, traz a sua continuação com mais uma série de resenhas nesse sentido. São cinebiografias de grandes astros do Rock ou de conjuntos musicais, filmes fictícios a usar o Rock como pano do fundo, menções e citações, além de abordagens generalizadas a contextualizar o fenômeno do Rock enquanto impacto na cultura Pop e como um baluarte da contracultura. Dividido em três volumes, no cômputo geral traz mais de cem resenhas a exemplificar a produção cinematográfica em conjunto com o tema Rock .
Eco2 Cities
This book is a point of departure for cities that would like to reap the many benefits of ecological and economic sustainability. It provides an analytical and operational framework that offers strategic guidance to cities on sustainable and integrated urban development.
Open Cities | Open Data
Today the world’s largest economies and corporations trade in data and its products to generate value in new disruptive markets. Within these markets vast streams of data are often inaccessible or untapped and controlled by powerful monopolies. Counter to this exclusive use of data is a promising world-wide “open-data” movement, promoting freely accessible information to share, reuse and redistribute. The provision and application of open data has enormous potential to transform exclusive, technocratic “smart cities” into inclusive and responsive “open-cities”. This book argues that those who contribute urban data should benefit from its production. Like the city itself, the in...
Encyclopedia of Technological Hazards and Disasters in the Social Sciences
The Encyclopedia of Technological Hazards and Disasters in the Social Sciences brings together an array of global experts to investigate, explore and analyse human-caused disaster events. Providing insights into both the origins and aftermaths of disaster events, it offers advanced understanding of a broad range of disaster events facing society during the Anthropocene.
Index to the 1800 Census of South Carolina
Complete index to the extant 1800 census of the State (remembering that the entire 1800 census of Richland District is missing). With only a few exceptions, district designations are used for locations, and a map, drawn expressly for this publication, enables the researcher to pinpoint district boundaries, as well as the boundaries of Orange, Lexington, and Barnwell counties in Orangeburgh District.
