Category: Natural Disaster

  • Climate Causes and Effects of Climate Change (Our Fragile Planet)

    Climate Causes and Effects of Climate Change (Our Fragile Planet)

    [ebook_store ebook_id=”6674″] In titles that use science to celebrate the wonders of the natural world, this series emphasizes how human activities can disrupt natural processes and outlines how communities, organizations, and individuals can contribute to a healthier planet for the future.

  • The International Climate Change Regime A Guide to Rules, Institutions and Procedures

    The International Climate Change Regime A Guide to Rules, Institutions and Procedures

    [ebook_store ebook_id=”6670″] This book presents a comprehensive, authoritative and independent account of the rules, institutions and procedures governing the international climate change regime. Its detailed yet user-friendly description and analysis covers the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Kyoto Protocol, and all decisions taken by the Conference of the Parties up to 2003, including…

  • Governing Climate Change (Global Institutions)

    Governing Climate Change (Global Institutions)

    [ebook_store ebook_id=”6666″] Governing Climate Change provides a short and accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and market actors to multilateral development banks, donors and cities. The issue of global climate change has risen to the top of the international political agenda. Despite ongoing contestation…

  • Community -based Adaptation to Climate Change (paricipatory Learning and Action 60)

    Community -based Adaptation to Climate Change (paricipatory Learning and Action 60)

    [ebook_store ebook_id=”6662″] Welcome to the new look 60th issue of Participatory Learning and Action! The focus of this special issue is communitybased adaptation to climate change. Its publication is timed to coincide with the forthcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 15) to be held in December, in Copenhagen, Denmark, and events surrounding it. The…

  • Meeting the Climate Challenge Recommendations of the Climate Change Taskforce

    Meeting the Climate Challenge Recommendations of the Climate Change Taskforce

    [ebook_store ebook_id=”6658″] The Taskforce’s recommendations are to all governments and policymakers worldwide. They are published in the year when the UK holds the presidencies of the G8 and EU, during which the UK’s Prime Minister Tony Blair has pledged to make climate change an agenda priority as one of the most serious and far-reaching challenges…

  • _Handbook of_Chaos_Control_2nd_Ed

    _Handbook of_Chaos_Control_2nd_Ed

    [ebook_store ebook_id=”5915″] This long-awaited revised second edition of the standard reference on the subject has been considerably expanded to include such recent developments as novel control schemes, control of chaotic space-time patterns, control of noisy nonlinear systems, and communication with chaos, as well as promising new directions in research. The contributions from leading international scientists…

  • _Tying_Flood_Insurance to_Flood_Risk for_Low-Lying_Structures in the_Floodplain

    _Tying_Flood_Insurance to_Flood_Risk for_Low-Lying_Structures in the_Floodplain

    [ebook_store ebook_id=”4349″]

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