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Multi-risk Interactions Towards Resilient and Sustainable Cities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

Multi-risk Interactions Towards Resilient and Sustainable Cities

For years, researchers have studied the risks of individual natural hazards in urban areas. However, the impact of multiple hazards has not yet received widespread attention in research and urban management practice, which is a significant gap in the current climate change context. This book aims to contribute to filling that gap by examining the process of identifying, assessing, and managing multi-hazard risks in urban areas. From identifying and assessing the vulnerability of the elements exposed to the impact of natural hazards, including earthquakes, floods, fires, and landslides, this book covers all the critical stages of multi-hazard risk assessment and management in a climate change...

Obstetric and Intrapartum Emergencies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Obstetric and Intrapartum Emergencies

The second edition of a comprehensive guide to the management of perinatal emergencies to improve maternal and neonatal health.

Chiselled Horizons: A Multi-Cultural Approach to Visual Literacy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 158

Chiselled Horizons: A Multi-Cultural Approach to Visual Literacy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-01-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. Shaping visual literacy has been at the forefront of contemporary discourse, as images have increasingly surpassed words in becoming the primary vehicles to persuade our emotions. Visually encoded domains of symbols and signs inform the educational, public and entertainment industries increasingly as an undifferentiated whole, aided by globalizing media forces in various forms. Whether top-down, peer-peer, one-to-may, or many-to-many, this volume attempts to derive sets of rules used to visually decode patterns present in certain media formats – press, cinema, television and maps, among others – and the place of the spectator in their respective dynamics. The topics discussed transition through various approaches to deconstruct mass media influences to engage critical thinking skills, and ending with a collection of chapters dedicated to exploring their effects upon children, and the capacity to be implemented to foster collaboration-based creative learning environments.

Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 580

Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-05-16
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana, Slovenia from May 29 to June 2, 2017. The complete collection of papers from the Forum is published in five full-color volumes. Thisfirst volume contains the following: • Three forum lectures • Background and Content of the Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025 • Contribution from the signatory organizations of the Sendai Partnerships • Land...

Portuguese Colonialism and Islam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Portuguese Colonialism and Islam

In Mozambique and Guinea, the Portuguese colonial administration had to deal with Muslim communities of significant population expression and whose internal cultural differentiations presented a complexity to which the administrative power was often unprepared. The exercise of this governance, with all the variations that characterized it, extended throughout the period that the colonial project lasted, from the phase of effective military occupation, in the transition from the nineteenth to the twentieth century, until the end of the colonial wars in 1974. In this chronological segment, Portuguese Colonialism and Islam seeks to address the circumstances of the colonial governance and regula...

Things of the House
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Things of the House

Discussing multiple aspects of material culture and domestic consumption, this book tackles the relationship between the trajectories and biographies of people, families, houses and objects and how they intertwine and produce each other. Focusing on the life stories of a group of European and Catholic Brahmin Goan families of the colonial elite who left Mozambique after the country's independence in 1975, the book shows how material culture interferes with structuring dimensions of migratory experiences, in the management of family memories, ties and networks of belonging, as well as in the social dynamics of positioning, hierarchy and distinction.

Men Who Migrate, Women Who Wait
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 355

Men Who Migrate, Women Who Wait

The author examines not only the imbalance in the marital fortunes of men and women but its effect on the roles of women in the community. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Carboxylic Acid Production
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 175

Carboxylic Acid Production

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-04-13
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  • Publisher: MDPI

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Carboxylic Acid Production" that was published in Fermentation

Progress in Botany Vol. 78
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 434

Progress in Botany Vol. 78

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-12-10
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  • Publisher: Springer

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on plant physiology, biochemistry, ecology, and ecosystems.

Postcolonial People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 381

Postcolonial People

Explores how European nations were remade by the end of empire, through the history of 'returning' settlers from Portuguese Africa.