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Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Pradeep Ray, Rajib Shaw Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Pradeep Ray, Rajib Shaw
R3,659 Discovery Miles 36 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book discusses the need for entrepreneurship for sustainable development from the perspective of Asia, the fastest growing region in the world. The world is now witnessing a spectacular rise of technology entrepreneurship, involving mobile phones, artificial intelligence, geospatial information systems and social media. On the other hand, governments all over the world, particularly those in low and medium income countries, are facing severe resource constraints in developing the livelihood and well-being of citizens. Although many non-government organizations (NGOs) have worked on various development projects in a number of social sectors such as health, education, disabilities, poverty alleviation and environment, there is still substantial scope for technological innovation, including more efficient, effective and user-friendly solutions in different parts of the world. This book is organized into 2 parts and consists of 17 chapters. The first part explores education and well-being, and the second part discusses the climate, environment and disaster management.

Gender and Wildfire - Landscapes of Uncertainty (Paperback): Christine Eriksen Gender and Wildfire - Landscapes of Uncertainty (Paperback)
Christine Eriksen
R1,587 Discovery Miles 15 870 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In pursuit of lifestyle change, affordable property, and proximity to nature, people from all walks of life are moving to the wildland-urban interface. Tragic wildfires and a predicted increase in high fire danger weather with climate change have triggered concern for the safety of such amenity-led migrants in wildfire-prone landscapes. This book examines wildfire awareness and preparedness amongst women, men, households, communities and agencies at the interface between city and beyond. It does so through an examination of two regions where wildfires are common and disastrous, and where how to deal with them is a major political issue: southeast Australia and the west coast United States. It follows women's and men's stories of surviving, fighting, evacuating, living and working with wildfire to reveal the intimate inner workings of wildfire response - and especially the culturally and historically distinct gender relations that underpin wildfire resilience. Wildfire is revealed as much more than a "natural" hazard - it is far from gender-neutral. Rather, wildfire is an important means through which traditional gender roles and power relations are maintained despite changing social circumstances. Women's and men's subjectivities are shaped by varying senses of inclusion, exclusion, engagement and disengagement with wildfire management. This leads to the reproduction of gender identities with clear ramifications for if, how and to what extent women and men prepare for wildfire.

Integrated Drought Management, Volume 1 - Assessment and Spatial Analyses in Changing Climate (Hardcover): Vijay P. Singh,... Integrated Drought Management, Volume 1 - Assessment and Spatial Analyses in Changing Climate (Hardcover)
Vijay P. Singh, Deepak Jhajharia, Rasoul Mirabbasi, Rohitashw Kumar
R5,862 Discovery Miles 58 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Provides a global perspective on drought prediction and management and a synthesis of the recent state of knowledge. Covers a wide range of topics from essential concepts and advanced techniques for forecasting and modeling drought to societal impacts, consequences, and planning. Presents numerous case studies with different management approaches from different regions and countries. Addresses how climate change impacts drought, the increasing challenges associated with managing drought, decision making, and policy implications. Includes contributions from hundreds of experts around the world.

Japan's Triple Disaster - Pursuing Justice after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Accident... Japan's Triple Disaster - Pursuing Justice after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Accident (Hardcover)
Natalia Novikova, Julia Gerster, Manuela G. Hartwig
R4,471 Discovery Miles 44 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The authors of this volume discuss questions of disaster and justice from various interdisciplinary vantage points, including public policy, science and technology studies, law, gender, sociology and psychology, social and cultural anthropology, town planning and tourism. The term "natural" disasters is a misnomer; cataclysmic natural events that impact humans can often be anticipated and their consequences should be prevented - the failure to do so is a failure of politics, policy and risk planning. Presenting research on more than a decade after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the chapters highlight not only the manifold challenges in the direct disaster response and policy making but also the difficulties of "just" long-term recovery. Arguing for just distribution, recognition and participation, this volume provides a diversity of perspectives on these issues as experienced after the 2011 disasters through detailed and nuanced analyses presented by early career researchers and senior academics coming from various countries and continents of the world. The insights of this volume galvanise the discussion of disaster governance and highlight the variety of disaster (in)justices and the ways disasters force people to contest and reimagine their relationships with their neighborhoods, countries, families, and friends. A valuable read for scholars and students researching issues related to mass emergencies, justice theory and civil activism.

Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters (Paperback, 2nd edition): John F. Shroder Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters (Paperback, 2nd edition)
John F. Shroder; Edited by Wilfried Haeberli, Colin Whiteman
R3,812 Discovery Miles 38 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Snow and Ice-Related Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Second Edition, provides you with the latest scientific developments in sea level rise, permafrost degradation, rock/ice avalanches, glacier surges, glacial lake outburst floods, ice shelf collapses, climate change implications, causality, impacts, preparedness and mitigation. The book takes a geo-scientific approach to the topic while also covering current thinking about directly related social scientific issues that can affect ecosystems and global economies. Special emphasis is placed on the rapidly progressing effects from global warming on the cryosphere, perspectives for the future and latest scientific advances, and technological developments.

Integrated Drought Management, Volume 2 - Forecasting, Monitoring, and Managing Risk (Hardcover): Vijay P. Singh, Deepak... Integrated Drought Management, Volume 2 - Forecasting, Monitoring, and Managing Risk (Hardcover)
Vijay P. Singh, Deepak Jhajharia, Rasoul Mirabbasi, Rohitashw Kumar
R6,325 Discovery Miles 63 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Provides a global perspective on drought prediction and management and a synthesis of the recent state of knowledge. Covers a wide range of topics from essential concepts and advanced techniques for forecasting and modeling drought to societal impacts, consequences, and planning Presents numerous case studies with different management approaches from different regions and countries. Addresses how climate change impacts drought, the increasing challenges associated with managing drought, decision making, and policy implications. Includes contributions from hundreds of experts around the world.

Lifeline Engineering Systems - Network Reliability Analysis and Aseismic Design (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Jie Li, Wei Liu Lifeline Engineering Systems - Network Reliability Analysis and Aseismic Design (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Jie Li, Wei Liu
R5,095 Discovery Miles 50 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book, for the first time, introduces comprehensively all main topics of lifeline earthquake engineering, including the structure analysis, network evaluation, and network design. The distinctive features involved in this book are the construction of theories and methods for stochastic analysis of structures based the physical idea, probability analytical algorithms for network evaluation by employing Boolean Algebra, functional evaluation of water distribution networks using hydraulic analysis, and network design methods by employing genetic, simulated annealing, and hybrid algorithms.

Hydrological Modeling - Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Ramakar Jha, V.P. Singh,... Hydrological Modeling - Hydraulics, Water Resources and Coastal Engineering (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Ramakar Jha, V.P. Singh, Vivekanand Singh, L.B. Roy, Roshni Thendiyath
R2,557 Discovery Miles 25 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book carefully considers hydrological models which are essential for predicting floods, droughts, soil moisture estimation, land use change detection, geomorphology and water structures. The book highlights recent advances in the area of hydrological modelling in the Ganga Basin and other internationally important river basins. The impact of climate change on water resources is a global concern. Water resources in many countries are already stressed, and climate change along with burgeoning population, rising standard of living and increasing demand are adding to the stress. Furthermore, river basins are becoming less resilient to climatic vagaries. Fundamental to addressing these issues is hydrological modelling which is covered in this book. Integrated water resources management is vital to ensure water and food security. Integral to the management is groundwater and solute transport, and this book encompasses tools that will be useful to mitigate the adverse consequences of natural disasters.

Historical and Prehistorical Earthquakes in the Caucasus - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Historical and... Historical and Prehistorical Earthquakes in the Caucasus - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Historical and Prehistorical Earthquakes in the Caucasus Yerevan, Armenia July 11-15, 1996 (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
D. Giardini, Serguei Balassanian
R8,613 Discovery Miles 86 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Earthquakes are the expression of the continuing evolution of the Earth planet and of the deformation of its crust and occur worldwide; while the largest events (M>7. 5) concentrate on plate boundary areas and active plate interiors, moderate earthquakes may take place, if rarely, in all continental areas and may turn catastrophic in areas with poor building construction practice, as tragically shown by the sequence of earthquakes striking the Caucasus region in recent years (Spitak, Armenia, 1988; Rutbar, W. Iran, 1990; Ratcha, Georgia, 1991; Erzincan, E. Turkey, 1992). Vulnerability to disaster is increasing as urbanisation and development occupy more areas that are prone to the effects of significant earthquakes. In order to minimize the loss of life, property damage and social and economic disruption caused by earthquakes, it is essential that reliable estimates of seismic hazard be available to national decision makers and engineers for land use planning and improved building design and construction. While short- and mid-term earthquake prediction may one day be able to reduce significantly the death toll of earthquakes, the environmental effects (collapse of buildings and infrastructures, disruption of the productive chain, human resettlement) can be reduced only through a long-term prevention policy in earthquake-prone areas based on the assessment of seismic hazard and risk, the implementation of safe building construction codes, the increased public awareness on natural disasters, a strategy of land-use planning taking into account the seismic hazard and the occurrence of other natural disasters.

Tsunamis in the World - Fifteenth International Tsunami Symposium, 1991 (Hardcover, 1993 ed.): Stefano Tinti Tsunamis in the World - Fifteenth International Tsunami Symposium, 1991 (Hardcover, 1993 ed.)
Stefano Tinti
R3,008 Discovery Miles 30 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

estimate tsunami potential by computing seismic moment. This system holds promise for a new generation of local tsunami warning systems. Shuto (Japan) described his conversion of !ida's definition of tsunami magnitude to local tsunami efforts. For example, i l = 2 would equal 4 m local wave height, which would destroy wooden houses and damage most fishing boats. SimOes (Portugal) reported on a seamount-based seismic system that was located in the tsunami source area for Portugal. In summary, the risk of tsunami hazard appears to be more widespread than the Pacific Ocean Basin. It appears that underwater slumps are an important component in tsunami generation. Finally, new technologies are emerging that would be used in a new generation of tsunami warning systems. These are exciting times for tsunami researchers. OBSERVATIONS TSUNAMI DISPERSION OBSERVED IN THE DEEP OCEAN F. I. GONZALEZl and Ye. A. KULIKOV2 Ipacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, NOAA 7600 Sand Point Way, N. E. , Seattle, W A 98115 USA 2State Oceanographic Institute Kropotkinskey per. 6 Moscow 119034, Russia CIS The amplitude and frequency modulation observed in bottom pressure records of the 6 March 1988 Alaskan Bight tsunami are shown to be due to dispersion as predicted by linear wave theory. The simple wave model developed for comparison with the data is also consistent with an important qualitative feature of the sea floor displacement pattern which is predicted by a seismic fault plane deformation model, i. e. the existence of a western-subsidence/eastern-uplift dipole.

Waiting for the Big One - Risk, Science, Experience, and Culture in Disaster Preparedness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Charlotte... Waiting for the Big One - Risk, Science, Experience, and Culture in Disaster Preparedness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse
R2,909 Discovery Miles 29 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following the idea that earthquake risk is multiple and hard to grasp, the book explores the earthquake's "mode of existence," guiding the reader through different epistemic moments of the earthquake-risk definition. Through in-depth interviews, the book provides a rarely seen anthropology of risk from the perspective of experts, scientists, and concerned residents for whom the possibility of partial or complete destruction of their living environment is a constant companion of their everyday lives. It argues that the characterization of the threats and the measures taken to limit its impacts constitute an integrated part of both their residential experiences and their professional practices.

Tsunami Data Assimilation for Early Warning (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Yu-Chen Wang Tsunami Data Assimilation for Early Warning (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Yu-Chen Wang
R4,568 Discovery Miles 45 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book focuses on proposing a tsunami early warning system using data assimilation of offshore data. First, Green's Function-based Tsunami Data Assimilation (GFTDA) is proposed to reduce the computation time for assimilation. It can forecast the waveform at Points of Interest (PoIs) by superposing Green's functions between observational stations and PoIs. GFTDA achieves an equivalently high accuracy of tsunami forecasting to the previous approaches, while saving sufficient time to achieve an early warning. Second, a modified tsunami data assimilation method is explored for regions with a sparse observation network. The method uses interpolated waveforms at virtual stations to construct the complete wavefront for tsunami propagation. Its application to the 2009 Dusky Sound, New Zealand earthquake, and the 2015 Illapel earthquake revealed that adopting virtual stations greatly improved the tsunami forecasting accuracy for regions without a dense observation network. Finally, a real-time tsunami detection algorithm using Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) is presented. The tsunami signals of the offshore bottom pressure gauge can be automatically separated from the tidal components, seismic waves, and background noise. The algorithm could detect tsunami arrival with a short detection delay and accurately characterize the tsunami amplitude. Furthermore, the tsunami data assimilation approach is combined with the real-time tsunami detection algorithm, which is applied to the tsunami of the 2016 Fukushima earthquake. The proposed tsunami data assimilation approach can be put into practice with the help of the real-time tsunami detection algorithm.

Plant Disturbance Ecology - The Process and the Response (Paperback, 2nd edition): Edward A. Johnson, Kiyoko Miyanishi Plant Disturbance Ecology - The Process and the Response (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Edward A. Johnson, Kiyoko Miyanishi
R3,236 Discovery Miles 32 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Disturbance ecology continues to be an active area of research, having undergone advances in many areas in recent years. One emerging direction is the increased coupling of physical and ecological processes, in which disturbances are increasingly traced back to mechanisms that cause the disturbances themselves, such as earth surface processes, mesoscale, and larger meteorological processes, and the ecological effects of interest are increasingly physiological. Plant Disturbance Ecology, 2nd Edition encourages movement away from the informal, conceptual approach traditionally used in defining natural disturbances and clearly presents how scientists can use a multitude of approaches in plant disturbance ecology. This edition includes nine revised chapters from the first edition, as well new, more comprehensive chapters on fire disturbance and beaver disturbance. Edited by leading experts in the field, Plant Disturbance Ecology, 2nd Edition is an essential resource for scientists interested in understanding plant disturbance and ecological processes.

Land Change Science - Observing, Monitoring and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface (Hardcover,... Land Change Science - Observing, Monitoring and Understanding Trajectories of Change on the Earth's Surface (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
Garik Gutman, Anthony C. Janetos., Christopher O. Justice, Emilio F Moran, John F. Mustard, …
R5,706 Discovery Miles 57 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume is a synthesis of the NASA funded work under the Land-Cover and Land-Use Change Program. Hundreds of scientists have worked for the past eight years to understand one of the most important forces that is changing our planet-human impacts on land cover, that is land use. Its contributions span the natural and the social sciences, and apply state-of-the-art techniques for understanding the earth: satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems, modeling, and advanced computing. It brings together detailed case studies, regional analyses, and globally scaled mapping efforts. This is the most organized effort made to understand the dominant force that has been responsible for changing the Earth's biosphere. Audience: This publication will be of interest to students, scientists, and policy makers. This volume includes a CD-ROM containing full color images of a selection of illustrations which are printed in black-and-white in the book.

Understanding Disaster Risk - A Multidimensional Approach (Paperback): Pedro Pinto Santos, Ksenia Chmutina, Jason Von Meding,... Understanding Disaster Risk - A Multidimensional Approach (Paperback)
Pedro Pinto Santos, Ksenia Chmutina, Jason Von Meding, Emmanuel Raju
R2,704 Discovery Miles 27 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Understanding Disaster Risk: A Multidimensional Approach presents the first principle from the UNISDR Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2015-2030. The framework includes a discussion of risk and resilience from both a theoretical and governance perspective in light of ideas that are shaping our common future. In addition, it presents innovative tools and best practices in reducing risk and building resilience. Combining the applications of social, financial, technological, design, engineering and nature-based approaches, the volume addresses rising global priorities and focuses on strengthening the global understanding of vulnerability, displaced communities, cultural heritages and cultural identity. Readers will gain a multifaceted understanding of disaster, addressing both historic and contemporary issues. Focusing on the various dimensions of disaster risk, the book details natural and social components of risk and the challenges posed to risk assessment models under the climate change paradigm.

Soil Dynamics - Select Proceedings of 7th ICRAGEE 2020 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): T. G. Sitharam, S. V. Dinesh, Ravi Jakka Soil Dynamics - Select Proceedings of 7th ICRAGEE 2020 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
T. G. Sitharam, S. V. Dinesh, Ravi Jakka
R4,421 Discovery Miles 44 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. The papers discuss advances in the fields of soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering. A strong emphasis is placed on connecting academic research and field practice, with many examples, case studies, best practices, and discussions on performance based design. This volume will be of interest to researchers and practicing engineers alike.

Extreme Events in Nature and Society (Hardcover, 2006 ed.): Sergio Albeverio, Volker Jentsch, Holger Kantz Extreme Events in Nature and Society (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)
Sergio Albeverio, Volker Jentsch, Holger Kantz
R1,588 Discovery Miles 15 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Significant, and usually unwelcome, surprises, such as floods, financial crisis, epileptic seizures, or material rupture, are the topics of Extreme Events in Nature and Society. The book, authored by foremost experts in these fields, reveals unifying and distinguishing features of extreme events, including problems of understanding and modelling their origin, spatial and temporal extension, and potential impact. The chapters converge towards the difficult problem of anticipation: forecasting the event and proposing measures to moderate or prevent it. Extreme Events in Nature and Society will interest not only specialists, but also the general reader eager to learn how the multifaceted field of extreme events can be viewed as a coherent whole.

The Politics of 21st Century Environmental Disasters (Hardcover): Susan Park The Politics of 21st Century Environmental Disasters (Hardcover)
Susan Park
R4,449 Discovery Miles 44 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the main concerns for grappling with increasing environmental disasters and examines how environmental disasters are understood by states, corporations, and non-government organizations nationally and internationally. The focus of this book is threefold: first, to investigate what constitutes an environmental disaster and to identify the parameters for political responses nationally and internationally. Second, the chapters analyse contemporary state practices that exacerbate the impact of, and responses to, environmental disasters. They show how states promote extractivism based on limited understandings of nature drawn from Western philosophy. Finally, the book highlights the strengths and weaknesses in political and institutional responses at the local level to such disasters by state and non-state actors. This shows how both slow and fast violence of environmental disasters affects communities, but also how vulnerable subjects are based on people's capabilities. The Politics of 21st Century Environmental Disaster is an indispensable resource for students and scholars in political science and environmental studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Environmental Politics.

Policing and CBRN Hazards - Advancing CBRN Competence in Police Education (Hardcover): Patrick Wengler Policing and CBRN Hazards - Advancing CBRN Competence in Police Education (Hardcover)
Patrick Wengler
R4,450 Discovery Miles 44 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

• Covers all aspects of why CBRN studies should be integrated into police education. • Provides guidance on teaching aspects of police education and practical information on scene sampling and chain of custody principles. • The first book to focus on why police need CBRN training to act effectively as first responders to incidents in the community.

Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth's Future - Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the... Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth's Future - Lectures Given at the Plenary Sessions of the International Geographical Union Kyoto Regional Conference, 2013 (Hardcover, 2014)
Kohei Okamoto, Yoshitaka Ishikawa
R4,587 Discovery Miles 45 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The title of this book, "Traditional Wisdom and Modern Knowledge for the Earth s Future," is from the theme of the 2013 Kyoto Regional Conference of the International Geographical Union. Over the past few decades, globalization has strengthened connections among countries and regions of the world and has greatly changed existing geographies. However, this trend has also fostered various problems on a regional or global scale, such as economic imbalance, social fragmentation, political conflicts, and environmental crises. While acknowledging the world s diversity, geography as a discipline must endeavor to resolve these problems by devising plans for cooperation and symbiotic existence of the different peoples of the world. An old Japanese proverb, "On-ko chi-shin," taken from a Chinese one, "Wengu Zhixin," says that only by exploring the old can one understand the new. People should first understand how traditional ideas, linked to interaction between society/culture and the environment, were formed in different countries and regions. Traditional wisdom, in harmony with the environment, remains prevalent. This book examines how we can mold the earth s future through such traditional wisdom and modern knowledge from the nine keynote speeches of the Kyoto Regional Conference focusing on three topics: traditional wisdom, the environment, and the Great East Japan Earthquake."

Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk (Hardcover, 1994 ed.): B.E. Tucker, Mustafa Oezder Erdik, Christina N. Hwang Issues in Urban Earthquake Risk (Hardcover, 1994 ed.)
B.E. Tucker, Mustafa Oezder Erdik, Christina N. Hwang
R5,779 Discovery Miles 57 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Urban seismic risk is growing worldwide and is, increasingly, a problem of developing countries. In 1950, one in four of the people living in the world's fifty largest cities was earthquake-threatened, while in the year 2000, about one in two will be. Further, ofthose people living in earthquake-threatened cities in 1950, about two in three were located in developing countries, while in the year 2000, about nine in ten will be. Unless urban seismic safety is improved, particularly in developing countries, future earthquakes will have ever more disastrous social and economic consequences. In July 1992, an international meeting was organized with the purpose of examining one means ofimproving worldwide urban safety. Entitled "Uses ofEarthquake Damage Scenarios for Cities of the 21st Century," this meeting was held in conjunction with the Tenth World Conference ofEarthquake Engineering, in Madrid, Spain. An earthquake damage scenario (EDS) is adescription of the consequences to an urban area of a large, but expectable earthquake on the critical facilities of that area. In Californian and Japanese cities, EDSes have been used for several decades, mainly for the needs of emergency response officials. The Madrid meeting examined uses of this technique for other purposes and in other, less developed countries. As a result of this meeting, it appeared that EDSes bad significant potential to improve urban seismic safety worldwide.

Earthquakes of the Indian Subcontinent - Seismotectonic Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): C P Rajendran, Kusala Rajendran Earthquakes of the Indian Subcontinent - Seismotectonic Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
C P Rajendran, Kusala Rajendran
R4,036 Discovery Miles 40 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book highlights some of the interesting recent and historical earthquakes (1803 Uttarkashi, 1819 Kutch, 1897 Shillong, 1905 Kangra, 1934 Nepal-Bihar, 1950 Upper Assam, 1967 Koyna, 1993 Killari, 1997 Jabalpur, 2001 Bhuj, 2004 Sumatra-Andaman, 2005 Kashmir, and 2015 Nepal) that occurred in India and in the vicinity. The tectonic and geodynamic significance of the modern (after the advent of global network) earthquakes in relation to some of the historical earthquakes like the 1819 Kachchh and 1897 Shillong and 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquakes in the light of newer understanding is discussed. It also contains detailed expositions of seismotectonics and mechanisms of each earthquake. It concludes with touching upon future earthquake hazard scenario in India in view of the present and past earthquakes.

Earthquake Forecasting and Warning (Hardcover, 1983 ed.): Tsuneji Rikitake Earthquake Forecasting and Warning (Hardcover, 1983 ed.)
Tsuneji Rikitake
R5,824 Discovery Miles 58 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Disaster Anarchy - Mutual Aid and Radical Action (Paperback): Rhiannon Firth Disaster Anarchy - Mutual Aid and Radical Action (Paperback)
Rhiannon Firth
R767 R644 Discovery Miles 6 440 Save R123 (16%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Commendable - a book that prepares us to think about and react to system failures' - Peter Gelderloos Anarchists have been central in helping communities ravaged by disasters, stepping in when governments wash their hands of the victims. Looking at Hurricane Sandy, Covid-19, and the social movements that mobilised relief in their wake, Disaster Anarchy is an inspiring and alarming book about collective solidarity in an increasingly dangerous world. As climate change and neoliberalism converge, mutual aid networks, grassroots direct action, occupations and brigades have sprung up in response to this crisis with considerable success. Occupy Sandy was widely acknowledged to have organised relief more effectively than federal agencies or NGOs, and following Covid-19 the term 'mutual aid' entered common parlance. However, anarchist-inspired relief has not gone unnoticed by government agencies. Their responses include surveillance, co-option, extending at times to violent repression involving police brutality. Arguing that disaster anarchy is one of the most important political phenomena to emerge in the twenty-first century, Rhiannon Firth shows through her research on and within these movements that anarchist theory and practice is needed to protect ourselves from the disasters of our unequal and destructive economic system.

Knickerbocker Snowstorm (Hardcover): Kevin Ambrose Knickerbocker Snowstorm (Hardcover)
Kevin Ambrose
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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