A handbook on flood hazard mapping methodologies
Author: Andrés Díez Herrero
Publisher: IGME
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9788478408139
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Meteorology Today
Author: C. Donald Ahrens
Publisher: Thomson Brooks/Cole
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9780495555742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMETEOROLOGY TODAY,9e, International Edition, is one of the most widely used and authoritative texts for the introductory meteorology course. This ninth edition helps you understand and appreciate the dynamic nature of the inevitable weather phenomena that continually influence our lives. The text’s clear and inviting narrative is supplemented by numerous pedagogical features that encourage observing, calculating, and synthesizing information.
Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA)
Author: Mendoza, Guillermo
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Published: 2018-12-31
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9231002872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe North American Mosaic
Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.
Performance Evaluation in USAID LAC Urban DRR Programming
Author: Juan Pablo Sarmiento
Publisher:
Published: 2018-04-10
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780998848921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConfronting Climate Uncertainty in Water Resources Planning and Project Design
Author: Patrick A. Ray
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2015-08-20
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 1464804788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConfronting Climate Uncertainty in Water Resources Planning and Project Design describes an approach to facing two fundamental and unavoidable issues brought about by climate change uncertainty in water resources planning and project design. The first is a risk assessment problem. The second relates to risk management. This book provides background on the risks relevant in water systems planning, the different approaches to scenario definition in water system planning, and an introduction to the decision-scaling methodology upon which the decision tree is based. The decision tree is described as a scientifically defensible, repeatable, direct and clear method for demonstrating the robustness of a project to climate change. While applicable to all water resources projects, it allocates effort to projects in a way that is consistent with their potential sensitivity to climate risk. The process was designed to be hierarchical, with different stages or phases of analysis triggered based on the findings of the previous phase. An application example is provided followed by a descriptions of some of the tools available for decision making under uncertainty and methods available for climate risk management. The tool was designed for the World Bank but can be applicable in other scenarios where similar challenges arise.
Memoirs of a Peasant Boy
Author: Xosé Neira Vilas
Publisher: Trafford
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781412028929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBalbino,"a boy from a village", a "nobody" who writes a notebook about everything that happens to him within the repressed and stifling society of Galicia in the thirties and forties. He tells of the moral and social atmosphere that prevails asking and answering questions and details the most elemental social struggle. There is also however the story of a true but impossible love. This book was first printed in Argentina in 1961 and became one of the most successful Galician books published. It has a lyrical style that immediately evokes sights and sounds of this part of Spain. The author Xosé Neira Vilas writes from his experiences of the era and the lifestyle of boys growing up in that society and provides a rich insight to life of the peasant boy "Balbino".
Climate Variability and Change
Author: Flow Regimes from International Experimental and Network Data (Project)
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 9781901502787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume contains 117 reviewed papers from over 30 countries, published in English, French and Spanish, which reflect both international dimension of FRIEND and the key challenges facing hydrologists in the 21st century.
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2020
Author: UNESCO
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-27
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9210050002
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2020 edition of the WWDR, titled Water and Climate Change illustrates the critical linkages between water and climate change in the context of the broader sustainable development agenda. Supported by examples from across the world, it describes both the challenges and opportunities created by climate change, and provides potential responses – in terms of adaptation, mitigation and improved resilience – that can be undertaken by enhancing water resources management, attenuating water-related risks, and improving access to water supply and sanitation services for all in a sustainable manner. It addresses the interrelations between water, people, environment and economics in a changing climate, demonstrating how climate change can be a positive catalyst for improved water management, governance and financing to achieve a sustainable and prosperous world for all. The report provides a fact-based, water-focused contribution to the knowledge base on climate change. It is complementary to existing scientific assessments and designed to support international political frameworks, with the goals of helping the water community tackle the challenges of climate change, and informing the climate change community about the opportunities that improved water management offers in terms of adaptation and mitigation.
A Conservation Assessment of the Terrestrial Ecoregions of Latin America and the Caribbean
Author: Eric Dinerstein
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKApproach; Major ecosystem types, major habitat types, and ecoregions of LAC; Conservation status of terretrial ecoregions of LAC; Biological distinctiveness of territorial ecoregions of LAC at different biogeographic scales results; Integrating biological distinctiveness and conservation status; Conservation assessment of mangrove ecosystems.
