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Author: Scott M. Haberle
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 71
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Author: Richard W. Davis
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 37
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Americans migrated from congested cities and into more rural areas of the nation, they were confronted with the problem of wildfires in the urban interface areas. The problem was the Loveland Fire Rescue Department did not adequately identify the community risk reduction factors that may have reduced wildland urban interface (WUI) fires in the past 24 months. The purpose of this research was to identify those factors.
Author: Larry Winter Roeder, Jr.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-05-25
Total Pages: 462
ISBN-13: 1461471133
DOWNLOAD EBOOK Diplomacy and Funding for Humanitarian Non-Profits is a practical guide to best practices in diplomacy and negotiation for non-profits (NGOs) who work to convince governments and international institutions to effectively protect humans through disaster assistance, sustainable development and the protection of cultures. The volume proposes a holistic approach to humanitarian assistance by integrating non-traditional and traditional humanitarian partners. Users of the book will be prepared to speak to diplomats and government officials in any setting, including war zones. The book mainly focuses on approaching local and national governments, the United Nations system, the international Red Cross movement and other international organizations. The reader will learn the rules of “diplomatic protocol", and much about the rules and procedures of major international bodies, as well as how to leverage media and knowledge management for planning, establishing, and managing a humanitarian initiative. To provide balance and real world relevance, the guide draws on a compilation of the extensive activities of both authors across a range of development, emergency management, knowledge management, and climate issues in government and in the NGO world, as well as interviews with a broad range of scholars and officials from NGOs, diplomatic missions, the media, the United Nations, the Red Cross, governments and corporations.
Author: Regine Halter
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Published: 2019-10
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9783906897318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the discussions about globalisation and design, what has been missing until now are deliberations regarding necessary changes towards a design education which puts conceptual acting in the context of global movements and problem situations. This publication pleads for a revision of design education. It addresses students, teachers, and design practitioners. On the basis of concrete examples, concepts, methods and tools are presented for discussion. They can open up new directions and possibilities of design education. Consequently, this book focuses on design students experiences and reflections as contributions to a design education understood as a school for differentiated perception. The local level the respective Cultural Space is appreciated as the actual hot spot of globalisation. The book offers reports, case studies, analyses, and reflections by lecturers, artists, and students about their working experiences in Uzbekistan, the United Arab Emirates, Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Nigeria, Botswana, South Sudan, India, Canada, Albania, the USA and others.
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher: UNEP/Earthprint
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9789280728712
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis stunning 400-page Atlas is a unique and powerful publication which brings to light stories of environmental change at more than 100 locations spread across every country in Africa. There are more than 300 satellite images, 300 ground photographs and 150 maps, along with informative graphs and charts that give a vivid visual portrayal of Africa and its changing environment that provide scientific evidence of the impact that natural and human activities have had on the continent's environment over the past several decades. The observations and measurements of environmental change help gauge the extent of progress made by African countries towards reaching the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. More importantly, this book contributes to the knowledge and understanding that are essential for adaptation and remediation, and should be of immense value to all those who want to know more about Africa and who care about the future of this continent.
Author: John Orvel Sawyer
Publisher: California Native Plant Society
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 1316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jan W. van Wagtendonk
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2018-06-08
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 0520961919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFire in California’s Ecosystems describes fire in detail—both as an integral natural process in the California landscape and as a growing threat to urban and suburban developments in the state. Written by many of the foremost authorities on the subject, this comprehensive volume is an ideal authoritative reference tool and the foremost synthesis of knowledge on the science, ecology, and management of fire in California. Part One introduces the basics of fire ecology, including overviews of historical fires, vegetation, climate, weather, fire as a physical and ecological process, and fire regimes, and reviews the interactions between fire and the physical, plant, and animal components of the environment. Part Two explores the history and ecology of fire in each of California's nine bioregions. Part Three examines fire management in California during Native American and post-Euro-American settlement and also current issues related to fire policy such as fuel management, watershed management, air quality, invasive plant species, at-risk species, climate change, social dynamics, and the future of fire management. This edition includes critical scientific and management updates and four new chapters on fire weather, fire regimes, climate change, and social dynamics.
Author: Anna Lukasiewicz
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-01-24
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9811504660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores policy, legal, and practice implications regarding the emerging field of disaster justice, using case studies of floods, bushfires, heatwaves, and earthquakes in Australia and Southern and South-east Asia. It reveals geographic locational and social disadvantage and structural inequities that lead to increased risk and vulnerability to disaster, and which impact ability to recover post-disaster. Written by multidisciplinary disaster researchers, the book addresses all stages of the disaster management cycle, demonstrating or recommending just approaches to preparation, response and recovery. It notably reveals how procedural, distributional and interactional aspects of justice enhance resilience, and offers a cutting edge analysis of disaster justice for managers, policy makers, researchers in justice, climate change or emergency management.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2004-01-16
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0309090539
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Author: Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2017-01-27
Total Pages: 681
ISBN-13: 0295805218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
