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Disaster management and private sectors : challenges and potentials
This book draws upon case studies and practices of different types of DRR involvement by the private sector from all over the world. The book comprises two parts, Part I: Overview and Regional Cases; and Part II: Country Cases. The regional cases include those from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central America, and the country cases include ones from India, Japan, the United States, Vietnam, Thaila…
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- 9784431554141
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- xi, 342 pages
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- 551
Disaster Risk Reduction Approaches in Pakistan
This book is a pioneering regional work and provides a balanced approach of theory and practice in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Pakistan. The book analytically discusses the status of DRR and draws examples and lessons from national and community-level programs and projects and events in the country. The book covers different types of disasters facing Pakistan, including geo-physical and hy…
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- 9784431553694
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- xii, 394 pages
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- 551
Managing Protected Areas in Central and Eastern Europe Under Climate Change
Beginning with an overview of data and concepts developed in the EU-project HABIT-CHANGE, this book addresses the need for sharing knowledge and experience in the field of biodiversity conservation and climate change. There is an urgent need to build capacity in protected areas to monitor, assess, manage and report the effects of climate change and their interaction with other pressures. The co…
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- 978-94-007-7960-0
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- XXV, 308 halaman
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- 551 MAN
Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices
As cities develop, more land is converted into impervious surfaces, which do not allow water to infiltrate. Careful urban planning is needed to ensure that the hydrologic cycle and water quality of the catchment areas are not affected. There are techniques that can attenuate peak flow during rain events and reduce the amount of metals, nutrients, and bacteria that enter the urban water cycle. T…
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- 978-981-287-245-6
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- VII, 59 halaman
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- Springer Briefs in Water Science and Technology
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- 551 HUN p
MATLAB® Recipes for Earth Sciences
MATLAB® is used for a wide range of applications in geosciences, such as image processing in remote sensing, the generation and processing of digital elevation models and the analysis of time series. This book introduces methods of data analysis in geosciences using MATLAB, such as basic statistics for univariate, bivariate and multivariate datasets, time-series analysis, signal processing, th…
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- 978-3-662-46244-7
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The Great American Biotic Interchange
South American ecosystems suffered one of the greatest biogeographical events, after the establishment of the Panamian land bridge, called the “Great American Biotic Interchange” (GABI). This refers to the exchange, in several phases, of land mammals between the Americas; this event started during the late Miocene with the appearance of the Holartic Procyonidae (Huayquerian Age) in South Am…
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- 978-94-017-9792-4
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- X, 97
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- SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
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Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) in the Permo-Carboniferous From Icehouse t…
This book focuses on the sedimentology of the Hells Kitchen Member of the Port Sussex Formation in East Falkland (Isla Soledad, Las Malvinas). It closely examines two sediment cores spanning these formations that were recovered from the Falkland Islands in 2008 following a mineral exploration programme. The integrated approach of this research, which combines sedimentological data with geochemi…
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- 978-3-319-08708-5
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- XV, 174
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Water Resource Economics Towards a Sustainable Use of Water for Irrigation i…
This book uses resource economics costing approaches incorporating externalities to estimate the returns for the country’s irrigation and demonstrates how underestimating the cost of water leads farmers to overestimate profits. The importance of the subject can be judged in light of the fact that India is the largest user of groundwater both for irrigation and for drinking purposes, pumping t…
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- 978-81-322-2479-2
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- XLI, 212
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Water Quality Management Assessment and Interpretation
Considering the significance of water quality for drinking, irrigation and industry, availability of accurate and sufficient water quality data is necessary and having enough data without proper interpretation is not helpful for water quality management decisions. Hence, analysis of the existing data and prediction of future of water quality is vital. The current volume first defines the imp…
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- 978-3-662-44725-3
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- IX, 118
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Ages, Geochemistry and Metamorphism of Neoarchean Basement in Shandong Provin…
Dr. Wu received her PhD. In Jan. 2014 from the University of Hong Kong. She was nominated as the Outstanding Research Postgraduate Students with her graduation. She also has gained various awards and prizes for her prominent research work during her PhD study. Dr. Wu now works at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research focuses on the Precambrian crustal formation, tectonothermal evolu…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-662-45343-8
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- XXIX, 221
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- Springer Theses
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- 551 WUM a
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