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Tohoku Recovery Challenges, Potentials and Future
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SHAW, Rajib

The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused extensive damage in various sectors. Through the recovery process, special lessons are being learned and applied in the affected region. This book attempts to draw lessons from different issues and sectors such as policy perspectives (both national and local), the role of international NGOs, fishing indu…

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978-4-431-55136-2
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Food Security and Risk Reduction in Bangladesh
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Umma Habiba

This book draws examples from food security issues in Bangladesh. The book is structured around those issues and underlying causes of food security, the implications from different sectors, policy analysis, and the role and actions of various stakeholders from different sectors to ensure food security. Bangladesh is situated in a climatically vulnerable position and is impacted frequently by…

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978-4-431-55411-0
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XII, 273 hlm.
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Disaster Risk Reduction
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Flood Control Management for the City and Surroundings of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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SAUD, Mashael Mohammed Al

During the past years, Saudi Arabia has been affected by particularly severe torrential rains and floods. This book presents an in-depth and all-encompassing study on the floods that occurred in the Jeddah area in 2009 and 2011, including water-flow mechanisms, state-of-the-art techniques for flood assessment, flood control and appropriate management approaches. It highlights a number of method…

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978-94-017-9661-3
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XIII, 169 hlm.
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Springer Natural Hazards
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Storm-triggered Landslides in Warmer Climates
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Diandong Ren

This volume discusses the general physics of debris flows and various approaches to modeling - including the SEGMENT-Landslide approach – as well as the pros and cons of these approaches and how other approaches are sub-sets of the SEGMENT-Landslide approach. In addition, this volume will systematically unify the concepts of vadose zone hydrology and geotechnical engineering, with special emp…

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978-3-319-08518-0
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X, 365
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