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September 24, 2024

Climate Change Adaptation, Flood Risk, and Beyond State of Play in the Science-Policy-Action Nexus

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Free Download Climate Change Adaptation, Flood Risk, and Beyond: State of Play in the Science-Policy-Action Nexus by Massimiliano Granceri Bradaschia, Filippo Magni, Francesco Musco
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 315 Pages | ISBN : 3031654625 | 134.7 MB
This book includes the insights of a seminar that was held at IUAV University of Venice, on May 29th and 30th featuring 10 speakers. 8 speakers, 2 moderators, and 1 organizer from the seminar, plus 10 other authors contributed to this book. The writers’ expertise spans from local climate adaptation planning, public policy analysis, climate and environmental finance, and climate adaptation advocacy to multi-risk analysis, GIS, disaster risk management, ecosystem services assessment, urban geography, art, and civic engagement. The book contents address adaptation and flood risk mitigation along the Science-Policy-Action path – both theoretical and operative perspectives are discussed. EU climate adaptation policy and finance, climate adaptation implementation, flood risk analysis, nature-based solutions, blue ecosystem services, regional adaptation planning, and critical infrastructure adaptation are the topics investigated in depth by the writers.

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September 18, 2024

From Disaster Response to Risk Management Australia’s National Drought Policy

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Free Download From Disaster Response to Risk Management: Australia’s National Drought Policy By Linda Courtenay Botterill, Donald A Wilhite (auth.), Linda Courtenay Botterill, Donald A. Wilhite (eds.)
2005 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 1402031238 | PDF | 4 MB
In 1992 Australia’s Commonwealth and State governments announced the introduction of a National Drought Policy adopting an innovative risk management approach, which received broad support from Australia’s major political parties and the policy community. This trail-blazing attempt and the experiences with the development and implementation of this policy over the past decade have intrigued the international scientific and policy communities. The present book comprises an academically focused collection of papers, which the Editors hope will provide others moving in a similar direction with the benefit of experience. The work highlights the successes and challenges of a move from disaster to risk management in responding to drought.As such it will be a valuable and useful addition to the international literature on drought preparedness and response.

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September 18, 2024

The Conversion of Liquid Rocket Fuels Risk Assessment, Technology and Treatment Options for the Conversion of Abandoned Liquid

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Free Download The Conversion of Liquid Rocket Fuels: Risk Assessment, Technology and Treatment Options for the Conversion of Abandoned Liquid Ballistic Missile Propellants (Fuels and Oxidizers) in Azerbaijan By Steve Brown (auth.), Wolfgang P. W. Spyra, Kay Winkelmann (eds.)
2005 | 148 Pages | ISBN: 1402023804 | PDF | 3 MB
Prof. Dr. -Ing. Wolfgang Spyra Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany The demilitarization and conversion of military properties wor- wide has been a topic of growing importance since the end of the Cold War. The slowing of the arms race brought on by weapons treaties and relaxed tensions between NATO and Warsaw Pact nations caused sto- piles of conventional weapons to become superfluous. The need to process and dispose of such weapons began more quickly in NATO countries. This demilitarization process began shortly after the reunification of Germany and was largely completed by the mid to late 1990’s. The remaining process, no small task in itself, of converting lands formerly used by the military into safe and environmentally acceptable landscapes may continue for decades to come. Due to a lack of resources and technology, the process of demilitarization in the former Warsaw Pact countries has launched more slowly. In 2002 both Georgia and Moldova finished projects which destroyed their stocks of liquid ballistic missile components. Both these projects were carried out through the cooperative support of trans-national organizations, private contractors, and research institutions. The Republic of Azerbaijan now finds itself at the beginning of its demilitarization process. Stored at the country’s military depots are over 2000 tons of missile fuels, oxidizer, and chemical additives. This hazardous waste is kept in tanks intended only for temporary transport and storage.

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September 17, 2024

Our Nation at Risk Election Integrity as a National Security Issue [Audiobook]

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Free Download Our Nation at Risk: Election Integrity as a National Security Issue (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0DC73W72D | 2024 | 12 hours and 32 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 356 MB
Author: Julian E. Zelizer, Karen J. Greenberg
Narrator: Lisa S. Ware
The nation’s top political scientists, historians, and legal scholars propose solutions for democracy’s future. In recent years, the sight of gun-wielding citizens patrolling ballot boxes and voting sites has become increasingly familiar. Major news corporations parroting false claims of election fraud, ballot stuffing, and faulty voting systems is the new normal. In an era of global anti-democratic movements, the sanctity of democratic electoral processes has become a major national security concern, and the need to protect elections from foreign interference, disinformation, voter intimidation, and the danger of election results being overturned, are now front and center.

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