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Springerbriefs in Economics: Natural Disasters and Climate Change: Innovative Solutions in Financial Risk Management (Paperback)

This book presents a technical approach to promoting the development of disaster and climate change risk financing and transfer strategies and discusses several practical issues chiefly focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean. Innovative risk... more

Future Ecologies: Records of Disaster : Media Infrastructures and Climate Change (Paperback)

Records of Disasters: Media Infrastructures and Climate Change explores how environmental disasters manifest and inscribe themselves in infrastructures. By turning to infrastructures their logic and functioning collapse and malfunction the volume... more

Banking Institutions and Natural Disasters: Recovery Resilience and Growth in the Face of Climate Change (Hardcover)

This book looks more closely at how natural disasters impact bank activity and how banks can support economic recovery after a natural disaster. The importance of banks in this context is underscored by increasing regulatory attention on their role in... more

Eco-Anxiety and Planetary Hope: Experiencing the Twin Disasters of Covid-19 and Climate Change (Paperback)

Eco-Anxiety and Planetary Hope: Experiencing the Twin Disasters of Covid-19 and Climate Change more

Climate Travels: How Ecotourism Changes Mindsets and Motivates Action (Paperback)

Winner 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Many accounts of climate change depict disasters striking faraway places: melting ice caps fearsome hurricanes all-consuming fires. How can seeing the consequences of human impacts up close help us grasp... more

Pre-Owned How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos Paperback

9781982134518. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 624. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 624 p. Contains: Illustrations. A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time from New... more

The Children s Rebellion and Climate Change (Paperback)

Book is suitable for 6-11 year old. In this book Kate and Tom learn about the global co-operation to try and control climate change. The are told the targets are insufficient. The children recall the major disasters that have occurred which are the... more

Living with the Unexpected: Linking Disaster Recovery to Sustainable Development in Montserrat (Paperback)

Living with the Unexpected deals with complexity and uncertainty two major challenges in a world faced with climate change and hazards. The study focuses on appropriate methods which enable vulnerable communities to cope effectively with natural... more

Sustainable Development Goals: Resource Management Sustainable Development and Governance: Indian and International Perspectives (Paperback)

This book examines the relationship between natural resource management sustainable development and governance with case studies from India and other places covering disaster risk reduction conflict resolution capacity building climate change... more

Economic Development at the Community Level: Creating Local Wealth and Resilience in Developing Countries (Paperback)

How do we create more economic opportunities in the low-income communities of the developing world? How can these communities build greater resilience against economic uncertainties natural disasters wars and the growing threats of climate change? This... more

Urbanisation at Risk in the Pacific and Asia: Disasters Climate Change and Resilience in the Built Environment (Paperback)

This book presents practical approaches for tackling the threats from climate change and disasters to urban growth in Pacific island countries and Asian nations. With chapters written by leading scholars and practitioners Urbanisation at Risk presents... more

Disaster Risk Reduction: Financing Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Asian Perspectives (Hardcover)

Part I Understanding the Context: Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation in Asia 1. Financing Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: Opportunities and Challenges Mikio Ishiwatari and Daisuke... more

Routledge Studies in Hazards Disaster R Climate Hazard Crises in Asian Societies and Environments (Paperback)

Climate hazards are the world s most widespread deadliest and costliest natural disasters. Knowledge of climate hazard dynamics is critical since the impacts of climate change population growth development projects and migration affect both the impact... more

Managing Extreme Climate Change Risks Through Insurance (Hardcover)

In recent years the damage caused by natural disasters has increased worldwide; this trend will only continue with the impact of climate change. Despite this the role for the most common mechanism for managing risk - insurance - has received little... more

Columbia University Earth Institute Sust Climate Change Adaptation: An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer (Paperback)

Climate change policy has typically emphasized mitigation calling for reducing emissions and shifting away from fossil fuels. Yet while these efforts have floundered floods wildfires droughts and other disasters are becoming more frequent and potent.... more

Beyond the Storms: Strengthening Homeland Security and Disaster Management to Achieve Resilience (Hardcover)

This book deals with both actual and potential terrorist attacks on the United States as well as natural disaster preparedness and management in the current era of global climate change. The topics of preparedness critical infrastructure investments... more

Beyond the Storms: Strengthening Homeland Security and Disaster Management to Achieve Resilience (Paperback)

This book deals with both actual and potential terrorist attacks on the United States as well as natural disaster preparedness and management in the current era of global climate change. The topics of preparedness critical infrastructure investments... more

Routledge Focus on Mental Health: The Disseminated Self (Hardcover)

The Disseminated Self: Ecosystem Perspective and Metapsychology explores attitudes to climate change and ecological disaster from a psychoanalytic perspective. The author examines the concept of Self how this can be broad enough to encompass our world... more

Trauma and Literature in an Age of Globalization (Paperback)

While globalization is often associated with economic and social progress it has also brought new forms of terrorism permanent states of emergency demographic displacement climate change and other natural disasters. Given these contemporary concerns... more

Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Adaptation (Hardcover)

Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Adaptation more

Sustainable Development Goals: Climate Change Disaster and Adaptations: Contextualising Human Responses to Ecological Change (Paperback)

Climate Change Disaster and Adaptations: Contextualising Human Responses to Ecological Change more

Pre-Owned The Global Warming Survival Kit : The Must-have Guide to Overcoming Extreme Weather Power Cuts Food Shortages and Other Climate Change Disasters 9780385612609

CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of the pages undamaged(e.g. minimal creases or tears) highlighting / underlining... more

Climate Change and Natural Disasters (Paperback)

Different theories emphasize the role climate change plays in the actual unusual occurrence of climate related natural disasters. This is a stressful issue for researchers Scientists and politicians due to inevitable loss and the impact both climate... more

Pre-Owned Regulating Disasters Climate Change and Environmental Harm: Lessons from the Indonesian (Hardcover 9781781002483) by Michael Faure Andri Wibisana

9781781002483. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Pages: 528. 528 p. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. This book provides a compelling view of the emerging system of environmental law in Indonesia the world s fourth most populous... more

Climate Change in Bangladesh : Confronting Impending Disasters (Hardcover)

This book provides an essential interdisciplinary text on climate change and sea level rise in Bangladesh for undergraduate and graduate students of geography environmental studies sociology anthropology political science and others. Furthermore it is... more

Regulating Disasters Climate Change and Environmental Harm : Lessons from the Indonesian Experience

Regulating Disasters Climate Change and Environmental Harm : Lessons from the Indonesian Experience more

Pre-Owned Prognosis Disaster: The Environment Climate Change Human Influences Vectors Disease (Paperback 9781452057033) by Ms. David Arieti Jacob Nieva Randolph Swiller

9781452057033. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 492. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 492 p. PROGNOSIS DISASTER is a book about human induced environmental change and disease. Climate change global warming and... more

Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (Paperback)

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate change adaptation. Extreme weather and climate events interacting with... more

Pre-Owned The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with Climate Change Turning Out to Be Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? Hardcover Christopher Booker

9781441110527. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 368. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Booker focuses his attention on the mother of all environmental... more

Disaster Resilience and Green Growth: Disaster Risk and Management Under Climate Change (Hardcover)

This contributed volume is focused on SDG 3 6 7 9 11 15 and it covers extensive knowledge on damage and loss contexts of climate change in a developing country. India s vast landscape with its diversity of eco-geo-physiography socio-cultural and... more

Routledge Studies in Hazards Disaster Risk and Climate Chan: Local Adaptation to Climate Change in South India: Challenges and the Future in the Tsunami-hit Coastal Regions (Hardcover)

This book critically discusses the vulnerabilities and local adaptation actions of the traditional marine fishers of the tsunami-hit coastal regions of South India to climate change and risks with an emphasis on their local institutions. Thereby it... more

Routledge Studies in Hazards Disaster Risk and Climate Chan: Climate Change and Risk in South and Southeast Asia: Sociopolitical Perspectives (Hardcover)

This book focuses on South and Southeast Asia upgrades our understanding of the influence of multiple sociopolitical and governance factors on climate change and risks. Moving beyond science and technology-oriented discussions on climate change it... more

Disaster Resilience and Green Growth: Climate Change and Urban Environment Sustainability (Hardcover)

This book covers the understanding on relationship between climate change urban development and environment sustainability with emphasis on relevant issues and challenges of urban environment sustainability. It deals with the concept of climate... more

Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation: An Interdisciplinary Approach

A multidisciplinary approach that involves multiple sectors and stakeholders is essential for disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change. This Special Issue explores how interdisciplinary approaches could resolve a wide range of issues... more

Disaster Risk Reduction: Impact of Climate Change Land Use and Land Cover and Socio-Economic Dynamics on Landslides (Paperback)

This book discusses the impact of climate change land use and land cover and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries. Scholars recently have brought about a shift in their focus regarding triggering factors for landslides from rainfall... more

Community Environment and Disaster Risk Management: Climate Change Modeling for Local Adaptation in the Hindu Kush - Himalayan Region (Hardcover)

This book presents a portrait of the social advantages and limitations of climate change related modeling in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. It addresses the implied but largely uncritiqued relationships between scientific modeling knowledge and... more

Eco-Anxiety and Planetary Hope: Experiencing the Twin Disasters of Covid-19 and Climate Change (Hardcover)

Part I. The Experience of Eco-Anxiety.- Chapter 1. Not to Be Unworthy of the Event: Thinking through Pandemics with Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze.- Chapter 2. We Breathe Therefore We Are: The Gasp of Life.- Chapter 3. Atmospheres of Anxiety: Doing Nothing... more

Climate Change and Food Security: Evidence from Bangladesh (Paperback)

Climate change natural disasters and agriculture are closely related from the perspective of food security. Present study has tried to show the inter dependencies between climatic factors and factors related with easy access to food in south-west... more