1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459709803321

Titolo

Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction Issues and challenges [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Rajib Shaw, Juan M. Pulhin, Joy Pereira

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, UK, : Emerald, c2010

ISBN

1-282-96411-9

9786612964114

0-85724-488-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (411 p.)

Collana

Community, environment and disaster risk management ; ; vol. 4

Altri autori (Persone)

ShawRajib

PulhinJuan M

PereiraJoy J

Disciplina

363.346

Soggetti

Climate change mitigation

Emergency management

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction: Issues and Challenges; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; List of Editors; Brief Introduction to the Series; Brief Introduction to the Volume; Preface; Chapter 1. Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction: overview of issues and challenges; Introduction; Climate change adaptation; Disaster risk reduction; Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction; Common issues and challenges of CCA and DRR; Structure of the book; Acknowledgment; References; Part I

Chapter 2. Embedding climate change adaptation within disaster risk reductionChapter 3. Disaster risk reduction under the United Nations framework convention on climate change; Chapter 4. Promoting adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the post-Kyoto climate regime; Chapter 5. Disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: Enabling environment for integration; Part II; Chapter 6. Adaptive governance of risks: climate, water, and disasters; Chapter 7. Mainstreaming climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction



through school education: Perspectives and challenges

Chapter 8. Teleprocessing for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reductionPart III; Chapter 9. Climate change adaptation and urban risk management; Chapter 10. Climate change adaptation and coastal zone management; Chapter 11. Climate change adaptation and community forest management; Chapter 12. River basin management for effective disaster risk reduction in the face of changing climate; Chapter 13. Housing sector considerations in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation; Part IV

Chapter 14. Integrated management of urban flooding for climate change adaptation in developing countriesChapter 15. Integrating disaster risk reduction with climate change adaptation: Recent initiatives in South Asia; Chapter 16. Climate change adaptation in ASEAN: Actions and challenges; Chapter 17. Climate change adaptation issues in small island developing states

Sommario/riassunto

Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) are closely associated. This volume will help researchers and practitioners to have a better idea on the current trend of research in the field, and will provide basic knowledge on this important topic.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996394249503316

Autore

Patrick Simon <1626-1707.>

Titolo

The hearts ease, or, A remedy against all troubles [[electronic resource] ] : with a consolatory discourse particularly directed to those who have lost their friends and dear relations : to which is now added, two papers printed in the time of the late plague / / by Symon Patrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by J.M. for F. Tyton ..., 1682

Edizione

[The fifth edition inlarged.]

Descrizione fisica

[28], 265, [5], 23, [2], 44 p

Soggetti

Consolation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Added t.p. on p. [83]: A consolatory discourse to prevent immoderate grief for the death of our friends.

The two papers are entitled: A brief exhortation to those who are shut up from our society, and deprived at present of publick instruction and A consolatory discourse perswading to a chearful trust in God in these times of trouble and danger.

Added t.p. and separate paging ([2], 44 p.): A consolatory discourse perswading to a chearful trust in God in these times of trouble and danger.

Added t.p. and separate paging ([5], 23 p.): A brief exhortation to those who are shut up from our society, and deprived at present of publick instruction.

Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113