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1 online resource (xvi, 300 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Figures""; ""Tables""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction -- Dealing with Disaster Risk and Vulnerability: People, Community, and Resilience Perspectives""; ""Part one -- Conceptual Considerations in Risk and Vulnerability Reduction""; ""1 -- Understanding Uncertainty and Reducing Vulnerability: Lessons from Resilience Thinking""; ""2 -- Community-Level Emergency Management: Placing Social Capital""; ""3 -- Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction: Realizing the Primacy of Community"" |
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""Part two -- International Perspectives on Disaster Risk Management and Public Policies""""4 -- The Intersection of Policies on Disaster Management, Climate Change, and International Development""; ""5 -- Mountain Hazards and the Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems: Examples from India and Canada""; ""6 -- Grassroots Participation versus Dictated Partnership: Anatomy of the Turkish Risk Management Reality""; ""7 -- Disaster Management and Public Policies in Bangladesh: Institutional Partnerships in Cyclone Hazards Mitigation and Response"" |
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""Part three -- Natural Hazards and Emergency Management in Canada""""8 -- Emergency Management Education in Canada: A View from the Crossroads""; ""9 -- Public and Expert Knowledge and Perception of Climate Change�Induced Disaster Risk: Canadian Prairie Perspectives""; ""10 -- Natural Hazard Identification, Mapping, and Vulnerability Assessment in Atlantic Canada: Progress and Challenges""; ""11 -- Infrastructure Failure Interdependencies in Extreme Events: The 1998 Ice Storm""; ""Contributors"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hazard mitigation.
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Hazard mitigation. |
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Emergency management.
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Emergency management. |
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Natural disasters -- Risk assessment.
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Natural disasters -- Risk assessment. |
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Natural disasters. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Etkin, David.
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Haque, Chowdhury Emdadul.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780773539631 0773539638 |
| ISBN |
0773587063 (electronic book) |
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9780773587069 (electronic book) |
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9780773539631 (bound) |
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0773539638 (bound) |
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9780773539921 (paperback) |
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0773539921 (paperback) |
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