... climatechange and its attributed environmental and socio-economic consequences over past decades,particularly over the last several years, has led toa growing body of literature and increasingconcern ... inflicted by disaster agents would increase dra-matically given the proportionate increase of the vulner-ability of communities and industrial assets driven byaccelerated urbanization and economic ... measuresfocused on disaster risk prevention, damage mitigation and arrangements for efficient risk sharing. Especiallyemphasized is the salient role of financial systems and tools suchas insurance in...
... the increasing intensity and fre-quency of natural disasters and extreme weatherevents (Srinivas and Nakagawa, 2008; Smithet al., 2009). The rate of increase of disasters as well as the numbers ... post-disaster response can actually increasevulnerabilities in the long term (Anderson and Woodrow, 1998; Schipper and Pelling, 2006).Nonetheless, as the emphasis continues to shiftfrom disaster ... renewal and transformation; and (3) and understandingof change and uncertainty as inherent insocial-ecological systems.This statement strongly reflects the convergentaspects of CCA and DRR....
... Geneva,Switzerland.ISDR, 2009. Global Assessment Report on Disaster RiskReduction: Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate.United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.Janssen, M. A. and Anderies, J. ... scholars, and increase collaboration betweenthe young and the seasoned within academicinstitutions, development and relief organiz-ations and government. We see this path,embedded in adaptive and ... Community-based disaster prepa-redness and climate adaptation: local capacity-building in the Philippines. Disasters, 30(1).81–101.Anderson, M. B. and Woodrow, P. J., 1998. Rising fromthe Ashes....
... discussion).Specifically, if one looks at the increasing activityin the basin the increase has occurred in the east-ernmost part of the basin, far from land. Theactivity in areas where landfall takes placeshows very ... (AMM) and even more exoticrelationships suchas with the QuasibiennialOscillation (QBO), Cold Tongue Index (CTI),African dust and rainfall, Asian and North Amer-ican smog, sunspot activity and ... skill of existingseasonal predictions of basin activity is modestat best (e.g. Owens and Landsea, 2003), effortsto predict landfall rates on longer timescalesbased on NATL basin activity are...
... targetwas increased from 60 per cent to at least 80 percent and the scope was extended to cover notonly CO2but the full basket of Kyoto greenhousegases (CO2,CH4,N2O, HFCs, PFCs and SF6).The ... goal and finally setting the UK’s contribution to theglobal trajectory. The process was stronglyevidence-based and made extensive use ofmodel results, but it was not an integrated,model-based ... hurricanelandfalls and their impacts will be those whobest match their decisions to what can and cannot be known about the uncertain future. And such wisdom starts with understanding thehistorical record and...
... settle-ments at coastal locations where hurricanes oftenmake landfall, suchas Florida (Pielke et al., 2008;Schmidt et al., 2009). In the future, urbanizationin hazard-prone areas suchas coastal agglomera-tions ... of the increased damage due to natural disas-ters around the globe can be explained by socio-economic developments suchas an increasedpopulation and concentration of wealth in areasthat are ... developments are a major deter-minant of the occurrence and consequences ofnatural disasters. Natural hazards such as storms, flash floods, heat waves and stormsurges are natural phenomena. However,...
... risk, suchas insurance purchases.However, in many cases this framework fails toadequately describe behaviour in practice,especially in the case of low-probability, high-impact risks suchas ... disaster aimed at creating con-ditions within the human system that enhancethis system’s resistance to disasters and itscapacity to respond to, and cushion impacts of,a disaster (Handmer and ... protection measures, such as dikes or building codes.Over time, catastrophe models need to beupdated due to socio-economic developments and climate change. In case climate changeincreases the...
... crisis. As a drought-pronecountry with massive fossil fuel resources, and with important economic sectors suchas agricul-ture and tourism vulnerable to climate shifts,Australia stands to ... inthis respect as well. Perceptions may deviatefrom expert assessments and influence risk man-agement of households, suchas investments inprecautionary measures or insurance purchases.A combination ... thereporting of climate change, which has beenfound to correlate with increased temperatures(Ungar, 1992; McComas and Shanahan, 1999),peak events suchas the 1997 Kyoto conference(Krosnick...
... as the villain was Queensland,which was blamed for taking too much waterout of the system, in particular by South Australia,which was the most badly affected state. As anexample, Queensland ... wetlands which perform essentialhydrological, biological and chemical functions and which support and maintain the productivity and health of the river systems. A number of theBasin wetlands ... context, andassuch involve many twists and turns in which the states depending on theBasin for water supply (New South Wales,Queensland, South Australia, the AustralianCapital Territory and Victoria)...
... management and climate change was justified by the fact that MinisterPenny Wong was the minister for climate change and water.5. The Coorong Wetlands are one of the most impor-tant wetlands in ... NY.Graber, D., 1993. Mass Media and American politics.CQPress, Washington, DC.Gurevitch, M. and Levy, M. R., 1985. Introduction. MassCommunication Yearbook, Vol. 5, M. Gurevitch and M. R. Levy (eds). ... Threats, Dilemmas and Opportunities,U. Rosenthal, A. Boin and L. Comfort (eds). CharlesC. Thomas, Springfield, IL.Seeger, M. W., Sellnow, T. L. and Ulmer, R. R., 2003.Communication and Organizational...
... Cách dùng assuch và such as Hai cụm từ, assuch và such as, trông thì có vẻ giống nhau nhưng trên thực tế hai cụm từ này khác nhau về nghĩa. As such có hai nghĩa. ... nói:She's an athlete, andassuch she has to train very hard.The film was a romance, andassuch it had the usual happy ending.Chúng ta cũng có thể dùng assuch để diễn tả ý một ... sell books as such, but it does sell magazines and newspapers.Tạp chí và báo cũng là mặt hàng tương tự như sách, nhưng chúng không phải là sách.He isn't American as such, but...
... necessity, chaos and order, body and mind,individual and totality, change and continuity, in the measured aestheticvision, which is henceforth to be respected in life as much as in art.Schiller ... everything. What matteredwas simply to know something and say it. In practice, it was far harderto assert than prove something (no. ; KFSAII, ). But even an asser-tion was not final, merely ... anamnesis, there-call and re-presentation of the past, so that the past’s meaning therebybecomes present, and Hyperion’s ascent to higher vision is enacted inthe text. Stranded in philistine...
... Automator and resave it. In any case, if you decide to save a workflow as an application, choose File Save As, and then select Application from the pop-up menu at the bottom. 7.4.2. Workflows as ... In the Save As dialog box, however, there's another choice for saving your workflows: as an application (Figure 7-13). A workflow saved as an application has all the benefits associated ... the workflow as a Finder plug-in. 7.4. Workflows as Programs and Plug-ins Building an Automator workflow is a satisfying intellectual exercise and a delicious talent to acquire. But if the point...