1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459283703321

Titolo

Building safer communities [[electronic resource] ] : risk governance, spatial planning and responses to natural hazards / / edited by Urbano Fra Paleo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : IOS Press, c2009

ISBN

6612600896

1-282-60089-3

9786612600890

1-60750-510-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

NATO science for peace and security series

Altri autori (Persone)

Fra PaleoUrbano

Disciplina

720

Soggetti

Land use - Planning

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 and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Title page; Preface; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Contents; Hazard Mitigation, Planning, and Disaster Resiliency: Challenges and Strategic Choices for the 21st Century; Command or Cooperate? Rethinking Traditional Central Governments' Hazard Mitigation Policies; Rethinking Risk Management Policies: From ``Participation'' to Processes of Dialogue, Debate, and Negotiation; Patterns of Risk: Spatial Planning as a Strategy for the Mitigation of Risk from Natural Hazards; On Exposure to Natural Hazards: Revisiting a Neglected Primal Action

Precaution and Science-Based Environmental Risk Management: Complementary not ContradictoryVulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Areas. A Role for Urban Planning; Vulnerable to Flooding? Nature Development and `Room for the River': A Governance Perspective; Social Impact Assessment for Environmental Disaster Management; Dynamics, Predictability and Risk Assessment of Natural Hazards; Principles of Emergency Planning: Standardisation, Integration and Sustainability; The Challenges of Planning for Post-Disaster Recovery



Urban Water Governance as Part of a Strategy for Risk Mitigation, What Is Different in Third World Cities?Achievements and Challenges of Integrating Risk Management into European Spatial Development Initiatives; French Multiple Risk and Disaster Integral Management System within the European Union; A Framework for Using GIS and Stakeholder Input to Assess Vulnerability to Coastal Hazards: A Case Study from Sarasota County, Florida; Use of Emerging InSAR and LiDAR Remote Sensing Technologies to Anticipate and Monitor Critical Natural Hazards; Subject Index; Author Index

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of essays that discusses the directions and key components of risk governance. It also includes the analysis of proactive approaches to the governance of risk from natural hazards, and approaches to broaden the scope of public policies related to the management of risks from natural hazards.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970690503321

Titolo

Colorectal cancer : risk, diagnosis and treatments / / Julianne E. Jenkins, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2011

ISBN

1-61761-427-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 p.)

Collana

Cancer etiology, diagnosis and treatments

Altri autori (Persone)

JenkinsJulianne E

Disciplina

616.99/4347

Soggetti

Colon (Anatomy) - Cancer

Rectum - Cancer

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Distinct and common issues in the psychosocial adaptation to cancer across cultures / Wai-Kai Hou -- Adjuvant chemotherapy for resected colorectal cancer / N.S. Brown, S.A. Mullamitha, J.W. Valle -- Palliative care of colorectal cancer / Carlos Eduardo Paiva ... [et al.] -- Gene variants and gene products encoded in the central part of the MHC are strongly associated with both the risk and the prognosis of colorectal cancer / Judit Kocsis ... [et al.] -- The role of cytoreduction as a



multidisciplinary treatment modality for metastatic colorectal cancer / Koji Tanaka, Yasuhiro Inoue, Masato Kusunoki -- Prognostic factors of survival in stage IIB-III and IV colorectal cancer / Nicolaos Diamantis ... [et al.] -- Serum CSE1L and CEA for prognosis of metastatic colorectal cancer / Ming-Chung Jiang -- Radiofrequency ablation as a novel therapy for pulmonary metastasis from colorectal cancer / Takao Hiraki ... [et al.] -- Hepatectomy for liver metastases from colorectal carcinoma : comparison to liver metastases from gastric carcinoma / Zenichi Morise, Atsushi Sugioka.

Sommario/riassunto

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the world's third most common cancer. The symptoms and syndromes most commonly observed in CRC patients are pain, nausea/vomiting, weight loss, fatigue, constipation/diarrhea, gastrointestinal bleeding, bowel obstruction and confusion. Both locally advanced tumors and its distant metastasis can lead to extreme discomfort. Palliative care in oncology focuses on prevention and relief of suffering to optimize quality of life. Also discussed in this book is the psychosocial studies of colorectal patients in China where this type of cancer has the sharpest increase in incidence and mortality.