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The COVID-19 pandemic has spread across the world and left turmoil
in every facet of society in its wake. As in-person activities came
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Resilience in Times of Crisis focuses on the revival of societal
institutions after events such as natural disasters, pandemics,
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Storm
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Deb Grant
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R396
R327
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The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in
coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book provides the
first in-depth ethnography of the disaster and its effects on a
fishing village in Tamil Nadu, India. The author explores how the
villagers have lived with the tsunami in the years succeeding it
and actively worked to gradually regain a sense of certainty and
confidence in their environment in the face of disempowering
disaster. What appears is a remarkable local recovery process in
which the survivors have interwoven the tsunami and the everyday in
a series of subtle practices and theorisations, resulting in a
complex and continuous recreation of village life. By showing the
composite nature of the tsunami as an event, the book adds new
theoretical insight into the anthropology of natural disaster and
recovery.
David Strohmaier's long career as a firefighter has given him
intimate knowledge of wildfire and its complex role in the natural
world of the American West. It has also given him rare
understanding of the painful losses that are a consequence of fire.
Strohmaier addresses our ambivalence about fire and the realities
of loss to it. He also examines the process of renewal that is yet
another consequence of such destruction, from the infusion of
essential nutrients into the soil, to the sprouting of seeds that
depend on intense heat for germination, to the renewal of species
as the land restores itself. ""Drift Smoke"" is a powerful and
moving meditation on wildfire by someone who has seen it in all its
terror and beauty, who has lost colleagues and beloved terrain to
its ferocity, and who has also seen new life sprouting in the
ashes. The debate over the role and control of fire in the West
will not end soon, but Strohmaier's contribution to the debate will
help us to better appreciate both the complexity of the issues and
the possibilities of fresh solutions.
In this age of uncertainty, there is the need for ideas that
transcend the limitations of party political, or left/right
thinking, in resolving the unprecedented problems of our time.
Technological Civilisation is here presented as a focal point for a
fresh perspective of both national and international issues. The
tensions between America and China indicate the possibility of a
new Cold War, and this would be disastrous for the planet in
diverting attention away from the cooperation needed in attending
to climate change and other threats to the environment. In the
countries of the West, democracy as we know it is beginning to
disintegrate. This is made evident through the collapse of voting
figures and party memberships, as well as a spirit of disillusion.
There are some topics which politicians are loathed to address, and
in the sphere of the approaching environmental crisis, the
population explosion is the most prominent. Leading scientists have
clearly demonstrated, that even if all efforts are put towards
reversing climate change through maximising renewable energy
sources, unless population control is achieved on a sufficient
level, all will be in vain. The population question is probably
pushed ahead to a greater degree in this book than will be found
elsewhere as a topic for public debate. In concentrating on
Technological Civilisation, it is possible to discern the
inter-connection of problems, and this leads to constructive
proposals for the regeneration of democracy, the reform of the
financial-industrial system, and the emergence of an upwardly
mobile and free egalitarian society.
This book addresses disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies,
focusing on reducing the paradox that exists between the compulsory
implementation of DRR policies and continuing limitations The
authors use their knowledge of the ever-evolving threats associated
with disasters and their prevention to investigate this famous
paradox and propose solutions that will help readers understand and
reconsider its existence. The authors also discuss conditionings
behind this paradox, helping readers understand the existing
solutions, also suggesting how to reduce the limitations of DRR
policies.
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Surfside
(Paperback)
Golan Vach
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R506
R411
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The peaceful town of Holmfirth, now famous for its connection with
the BBC's comedy series 'Last of the Summer Wine', has had its
tranquility torn apart on two separate occasions. This book retells
the stories of two devastating floods which ripped apart the heart
of the town. The 1852 flood was caused, in part, by negligence of
the reservoir builders, and the 1944 flood was due partly to a
consequence of these lessons not being learnt. The Holmfirth Floods
provides a fascinating insight into everyday life in the town
before, during and after these disasterous events, accompanied
throughout by maps, sketches and photographs.
The length of Aegean arc in south-west Turkey has been deter mined
by the use of intermediate focal depth earthquakes which occurred
between 1900-1985 in the south-west of Turkey (34.00- 38.00 Nand
27.00-32.00 E). Intermediate focal depth earthqua kes in south-west
Turkey revealed the presence of a seismic Benioff zone caused by
underthrusting of the African litho spheric plate by the Aegean
arc. In order to determine the geometry of underthrustin%detailed
epicenter maps of the in termediate depth earthquakes in south-west
of Turkey were pre pared. It is known that these earthquakes
brought great harm in the past. Investigation of time distribution
of them will help to predict the occurrence of them in the future.
These intermediate focal depth earthquakes can be differenti ated
from deep ones by their micro- and macroseismic proper ties.
Papazachos (1969) and Comninakis (1970) found that the foci of
these earthquakes are in a zone underthrusting exten ding from the
East Mediterranean to the Aegean arc. Morgan (1968) and Le pichori
(1968) defined three plates which are important in East
Mediterranean tectonics. These are the Afri ca, Arabic and Eurasian
plates. They define wide earthquake belt on the boundaries between
the African and Eurasian plate."
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