Encyclopaedia of Management of Droughts, Famines, Deserts and Desertification (Management of Droughts and Famine)
by Parmeshwar Singh
The pedagogical approach of Understanding Homeland Security is designed to stimulate critical thinking by readers. Each chapter follows a sequence of instruction that builds on previous chapters and thus incrementally enhances the reader's knowledge of each topic. Chapters incorporate the following features: Opening Viewpoints. At the beginning of each chapter, Opening Viewpoints present relevant examples of theories and themes discussed in each chapter and serve as "reality checks" for reade...
After a devastating hurricane in 1919, the people of Corpus Christi faced the stark reality of their vulnerability. It was clear that something had to be done, but the mere will to take precautionary measures did not necessarily lead the way. Instead, two decades would pass before an effective solution was in place. Mary Jo O'Rear, author of Storm over the Bay, returns to tell the story of a city's long and often frustrating path to protecting itself. Bulwark Against the Bay reveals the strugg...
Global Aerospace Monitoring and Disaster Management
by Valery A Menshikov and Anatoly N Urlichich Perminov
In this book, space systems are situated in the global processes of the 21st century's information society and the role that space information systems could play in risk management is determined; methods of detecting and forecasting of both natural disasters and technogenic catastrophes and existing global and regional monitoring systems are described; and the IGMASS is introduced with its architecture and design concept and social and economic aspects and estimates of its creation, development,...
Year Book of Research and Development
The Health Status of Londoners
by Michaela Benzeval, Ken Judge, and Michael Solomon
Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation
The Cry from the Sea and the Answer from the Shore
by Thomas Stanley Treanor
Triple Threat Power Grid Exercise
by George Baker III, Terry Donat MD, and David Hunt
Form Follows Function (Management paper)
Disaster, Risk and the Accountant's Role in Recovery Planning (Accountants Digests, #310)
by Mark Merrill and Pridie Brewster
The aim of the two-set series is to present a very detailed and up-to-date reference for researchers and practicing engineers in the fields of mechanical, refrigeration, chemical, nuclear and electronics engineering on the important topic of two-phase heat transfer and two-phase flow. The scope of the first set of 4 volumes presents the fundamentals of the two-phase flows and heat transfer mechanisms, and describes in detail the most important prediction methods, while the scope of the second se...
Application of Big Data for National Security
by Babak Akhgar, Gregory B. Saathoff, Hamid R Arabnia, Richard Hill, Andrew Staniforth, and Petra Saskia Bayerl
Application of Big Data for National Security provides users with state-of-the-art concepts, methods, and technologies for Big Data analytics in the fight against terrorism and crime, including a wide range of case studies and application scenarios. This book combines expertise from an international team of experts in law enforcement, national security, and law, as well as computer sciences, criminology, linguistics, and psychology, creating a unique cross-disciplinary collection of knowledge an...
Major Hazard Control