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Spatial Flood Risk Management
Edited by Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková, Mark E. Wilkinson
‘In a world where climatic variability is expected to deluge various regions of the world, the link between land use and water management will become even more evident. Hence, this book is a very timely and welcomed compilation of articl... -
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Defining Disaster
Edited by Marie Aronsson-Storrier, Rasmus Dahlberg
‘Bringing together anthropology, geography, social work, and law, among other disciplines, this new edited book from Aronsson-Storrier and Dahlberg tackles a critical issue in an era of climate change, extreme weather events, and man-mad...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Research Handbook on Climate Disaster Law
Edited by Rosemary Lyster, Robert R.M. Verchick
‘As the global community struggles to reduce emissions to avoid the worst impacts of human induced climate change, climate disaster law is emerging as a new area of climate law that demands the attention of academics, policymakers and pr...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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The Economics of Natural Disasters
Edited by Mark Skidmore
‘Economics is both political economy and empirical, and this distinction has not been lost in Professor Skidmore’s edited book on the economics of natural disasters. This collection strikes a good balance between quantitative and non-qua... -
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Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law
Edited by Susan C. Breau, Katja L.H. Samuel
‘Relying on a stellar list of contributors, this Handbook attempts to define disasters and analyses whether existing international law instruments adequately respond to disaster events in a range of different scenarios. It goes further t...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Economic and Natural Disasters since 1900
John Singleton
In the wake of the global financial and Eurozone upheavals this timely book argues that the disaster cycle – a framework normally used in the context of natural disasters – is equally applicable to the analysis of other types of catastro...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Gender, Development and Disasters
Sarah Bradshaw
‘Once in a while a book is published which offers an empirically and theoretically informed analysis of an under-studied topic which helps to carve out a new field of enquiry. Such is the case with Dr Sarah Bradshaw’s breathtakingly deta...eBook:Find out more$27.16
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National Economic Impact Analysis of Terrorist Attacks and Natural Disasters
Edited by Harry W. Richardson, Jiyoung Park, James E. Moore II, Qisheng Pan
‘The NIEMO development effort is as ambitious as any in regional science. In addition to immense data handling issues faced are the numerous conceptual and theoretical hurdles these researchers have cleared so adeptly. The volume’s chapt...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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调节灾害、气候变化和城市ntal Harm
编辑迈克尔·福尔Andri Wibisana
‘In Regulating Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Harm Michael Faure and Andri Wibisana bring together insightful analyses of how developing countries can manage serious hazards. Natural disasters have long been threats to devel...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Islands at Risk?
John Connell
This insightful book provides a wide ranging analysis of contemporary economic, social, political and environmental change in small islands and territories, through every ocean, and the small island states. It examines the decline of agr...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Managing Food Safety and Hygiene
Bridget M. Hutter
‘One of the most thorough and considered studies we have of the relationship between regulation and business risk management practices. Food regulation provides a revealing canvas for understanding the dynamics of the governance of risk....eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Geopolitics of Foreign Aid
Edited by Helen V. Milner, Dean Tingley
Foreign aid remains a crucial policy tool of donor countries, and many countries throughout the world have been or continue to be recipients of aid. In this two-volume set, Professor Milner and Professor Tingley bring together the key pu...
