Tag: Disasters

Free Download Economics of Disasters and Climate Change: Risk and Uncertainties
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9819794145 | 304 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 14 MB
This book discusses the theory, method, and practice of risk economics and also examines climate change and disaster’s theoretical and practical implications on capital formation and accumulation in the contemporary economic system. It explores the theoretical and practical challenges of engaging with climate and disaster risk in the changing context of capital investments and market expansion. It explains the emergence of an at-risk society and its interface with economic decision-making. The critical issue the book explores is the implication of certainty over the return period of risk and its influence on the economic behaviour of the state and market institutions. Risk sharing and governing economic risks in the context of financial capitalism is a major theoretical issue the book engages with. It offers a new conceptual framework to see how risk economics evolves out of increasing climate and disaster risks and a counter-discourse on the mainstream economic theoretical standpoint on capital and explains the economics of capital replacement in vulnerable social systems. These broader perspectives will be valuable to economists, researchers, experts in disaster and climate risk, corporate professionals, economics educators, specialists in financial economics, and those involved in development policy-making. This book offers a detailed discussion of risk mitigation and its interface with sustainable development goals including climate action.

Free Download Predicting Natural Disasters With AI and Machine Learning
by Satishkumar D.
English | 2024 | ISBN: 9798369322802 | 360 pages | True PDF EPUB | 34.76 MB

Free Download Laura Westra, "Environmental Disasters and Land Grabs As Crimes Against Humanity "
English | ISBN: 1536131776 | 2018 | 321 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Increasingly people in every continent of the world are becoming aware of the grave consequences of the current environmental problems, from climate change to unsustainable agricultural growth durations. These consequences include dangerous, environmentally caused results that affect our health and the health of our children, as well as our social well-being and our very basic rights. This book raises a radical question: Can environmental disasters and land grab crimes, in fact, be seen as crimes against humanity? That approach is defended through a number of present legal documents and through existing and novel arguments. With this in mind, who is responsible for the present situation, and who should be held accountable for both damages and harm towards those parties affected? The main problems concern holding governments (who minimally permit, but often promote many of the practices of legal and natural persons) responsible for initiating and supporting the activities that ensure their economic benefit, which is leading to the present impasse. The authors discuss how such individuals can be held accountable singly and collectively for the harms they impose on all life.

Free Download Research Handbook on Disasters and International Law 2nd Edition
Marie Aronsson-Storrier, Susan C. Breau
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1803924209 | 529 Pages | PDF | 4.62 MB

Free Download Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CR52T97T | 2024 | 9 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 268 MB
Author: Anne Anlin Cheng
Narrator: Anne Anlin Cheng
The most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, part history, Anne Anlin Cheng’s original essays focus on art, politics, and popular culture. Through personal stories woven with a keen eye and an open heart, Cheng summons up the grief, love, anger, and humor in negotiating the realities of being a scholar, an immigrant Asian American woman, a cancer patient, a wife of a white man, and a mother of biracial children . . . all in the midst of the (extra)ordinary stresses of recent years. Ordinary Disasters explores with lyricism and surgical precision the often difficult-to-articulate consequences of race, gender, migration, and empire. It is the story of Chinese mothers and daughters, of race and nationality, of ambition and gender, of memory and forgetting, and the intricate ways in which we struggle for interracial and intergenerational intimacies in a world where there can be no seamless identity.

Free Download Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority by Anne Anlin Cheng
English | September 10, 2024 | ISBN: 0593316827 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 22.4 MB
The most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it means to be an Asian American woman living in America today.

Free Download Charlie Woglom, "Mom the Toilet’s Clogged!: Kid Disasters and How to Fix Them (Go Parents! Guide)"
English | 2002 | pages: 88 | ISBN: 0965925846 | PDF | 8,3 mb
In a household with children, disasters lurk around every corner. Laundry soap in the dishwasher. Baseballs launched through the neighbor’s window. Heads stuck between stair railings. Sandwiches in the VCR. What’s a parent to do? "Mom, the Toilet’s Clogged!" takes on common kid-induced household problems and provides hands-on, rational solutions that work. Offering practical and funny advice in the bestselling tradition of The Worst Case Scenario Survival Handbook and Hints from Heloise, this is the definitive guide to alleviating everyday trauma. Padded with interesting tips that most adults never thought they’d need-until they became parents-this book will help parents with whatever kid disasters befall them.

Free Download Historic Cities in the Face of Disasters: Reconstruction, Recovery and Resilience of Societies by Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian
English | EPUB | 2021 | 659 Pages | ISBN : 3030773558 | 201 MB
This book examines reconstruction and resilience of historic cities and societies from multiple disciplinary and complementary perspectives and, by doing so, it helps researchers and practitioners alike, among them reconstruction managers, urban governance and professionals. The book builds on carefully selected and updated papers accepted for the 2019 Silk Cities international conference on ‘reconstruction, recovery and resilience of historic cities and societies’, the third Silk Cities conference held in L’Aquila, Italy, 10-12 July 2019, working with University of L’Aquila and UCL.

Free Download True Stories of Aviation Disasters & Mysteries
by Shah Rukh
English | June 1, 2024 | ISBN: 8227561233 | 228 pages | EPUB | 0.35 Mb

Free Download The Illustrated History of Natural Disasters by Jan Kozák, Vladimír Čermák
English | May 3, 2010 | ISBN: 9048133246, 9402404856 | True PDF | 206 pages | 240 MB
This richly illustrated pictorial history of natural disasters has been composed from a large selection of images of a wide variety of sources, mostly private collections. These include reproductions of rare engravings, maps both old and new, sketches, and diagrams. The individual full-page reproductions give historical views on natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, avalanches, landslides and rock falls. The illustrations are accompanied by text describing the geophysical and historical background of the disasters, the origin of each of the engravings and stories behind the events.