Climate change and disaster risk management

​There has been some degree of reluctance in the past to consider disaster risk management within the mainstream of adaptation to climate variability and climate change. However, there is now wide recognition of the need to incorporate disaster risk management concerns in dealing with such phenomena. There is also a growing awareness of the necessity for a multi-sectoral approach in managing …

Geographic information systems (GIS) for disaster management

Provides coverage of the basics of GIS. It examines what GIS can and can't do, GIS data formats (vector, raster, imagery), and basic GIS functions including analysis, map production/cartography, and data modeling. It presents a series of real-life case studies that illustrate the GIS concepts discussed in each chapter. These case studies supply readers with an understanding of the applicability…

Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and adaptation in practice

This book is a compilation of recent developments in the field of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaption (Eco-DRR/CCA) globally. It provides further evidence that ecosystem-based approaches make economic sense, and showcases how research has progressively filled knowledge gaps about translating this concept into practice. It presents a number of methods, and tools t…

Mountain hazards and disaster risk reduction

The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and water-induced disasters. This fragile mountain region is under tremendous stress from climate change and land-use degradation that has accelerated flash floods, river-line floods, erosion, and wet mass movements during the monsoon period and drought in the non-monsoon period. Against the backdrop of intensifying disas…

Environmental health in emergencies and disasters: a practical guide

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9789241545419

Collation

xx, 252 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.

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Call Number

[TLK-LIB-133]

Environmental Project Management: Principles, Methodology, and Processes

It is unique in that it clearly distinguishes between environmental project management (EnvPM) and green project management (GreenPM), and presents an amalgamation of environmental management and project management concepts, using geospatial methods to form an EnvPM concept

Ideas in marketing : finding the new and polishing the old : proceedings of t…

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9783319109510

Collation

1 online resource (lxv, 842 pages).

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Call Number

PRO-037

Sustainable air pollution management : theory and practice

This work is intended as a textbook on the theory and practice of sustainable air pollution management. The book discusses the fundamental aspects of traditional air pollution topics as well as some more advanced topics (such as atmospheric brown cloud, trans-boundary movement of air pollutants, air transportation of radioactive material, biological air pollutants, etc.). Though much has been w…

Statistics for managers using Microsoft Excel

Edition

8th ed

ISBN/ISSN

9781292156347

Collation

xxii, 699 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ;

Series Title

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Call Number

[MNJ-LIB-109]

Hydrosystems engineering reliability assessment and risk analysis

This is the first book to integrate reliability analysis and risk assessment with the planning, design, and management of hydrosystems (dams, levees, storm sewers, etc.). Requiring only a basic knowledge of probability and statistics, readers will be able to determine how hydrosystem structures will perform under various circumstances.