A Safer Future

A Safer Future
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 85
Release: 1991-02-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309045460

Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally. The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.

The Bushfire Book: How to Be Aware and Prepare

The Bushfire Book: How to Be Aware and Prepare
Author: Polly Marsden
Publisher: Lothian Children's Books
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2022-03-15
Genre: Climatology
ISBN: 9780734420077

An accessible and reassuring picture book that teaches children what they need to know about bushfires so they can understand what's happening and be smart and prepared, not scared. Australia is a big country with all sorts of weather. And sometimes extreme weather like bushfires. Bushfires can make a real mess of things. The air fills with smoke. The skies turn red. Ash falls. Precious things burn. But we don't need to be scared, we just need to know all about bushfires and prepare for them. This book will help you understand what causes bushfires, introduce you to all the clever people who are keeping an eye on them, and teach you how to be prepared and not scared. A practical and reassuring book for children to help them understand bushfires and what action they can take to feel less anxious and more prepared as Australia faces longer and more intense bushfire seasons.

Are You Ready?

Are You Ready?
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2004
Genre: Disaster relief
ISBN:

Accompanying CD-ROM contains additional supporting materials, sample electronic slide presentations, and other resources.

Facing the Unexpected

Facing the Unexpected
Author: Ronald W. Perry
Publisher: Joseph Henry Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2001-11-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309171970

Facing the Unexpected presents the wealth of information derived from disasters around the world over the past 25 years. The authors explore how these findings can improve disaster programs, identify remaining research needs, and discuss disaster within the broader context of sustainable development. How do different people think about disaster? Are we more likely to panic or to respond with altruism? Why are 110 people killed in a Valujet crash considered disaster victims while the 50,000 killed annually in traffic accidents in the U.S. are not? At the crossroads of social, cultural, and economic factors, this book examines these and other compelling questions. The authors review the influences that shape the U.S. governmental system for disaster planning and response, the effectiveness of local emergency agencies, and the level of professionalism in the field. They also compare technological versus natural disaster and examine the impact of technology on disaster programs.

Healthcare Infrastructure, Resilience and Climate Change

Healthcare Infrastructure, Resilience and Climate Change
Author: Virendra Kumar Paul
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2023-07-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000910202

This book highlights the vulnerability of healthcare buildings in the context of climate change-triggered extreme weather events (EWEs) and the case for mitigation. With a concise discussion on climate change and its consequences in the form of such events, a cost model and equations that register losses and help quantify them are then presented. The model can be used to estimate the significant potential loss that might occur during an EWE and help healthcare facilities prepare for them. The book analyses cases of major EWEs in India over the last two decades and collates the data available into various categories. Through this research the authors have developed a framework which assists healthcare facilities with a detailed calculation of value losses, both tangible and intangible. The framework can be used to assess the impacts on healthcare buildings in terms of disruption of services so that appropriate decisions related to the resilience in healthcare planning can be taken into consideration. Thus, the book is useful for directing planning and design processes aimed at continuity of service and building resilience to perform in the face of natural disaster and extreme weather. The purpose of this book is to prompt facilities planners and healthcare facilities to prepare to respond to EWEs through the planning and design process in a rational manner. Built infrastructure professionals such as architects and engineers, policy makers, and academics with an interest in disasters, risk and climate change will all find this book to be key reading.

Public Land Management Policy

Public Land Management Policy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Public Lands and National Parks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1074
Release: 1983
Genre: Public lands
ISBN:

Success is Ele-MENTAL

Success is Ele-MENTAL
Author: Jill Fandrich, PharmD
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2023-10-26
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN:

How can you charismatically captivate your audience? How can you claim a success when on the surface, it looks like a failure? How can you "feel" successfully revenged yet hurt no one in the process? How can you leave the world a better place than you found it? ***** Success Is Ele-MENTAL builds on a foundation of a decluttered and positive, energy-filled mind and defines, clarifies, and embeds FIFTY successful character qualities into your programming. You will also be invigorated with clever ideas of how to turn a failed attempt into an inspirited success. You will even find ways to become positively approachable and think like a leader, and not only will you be inspired, you will actually be the inspiration for others! By internalizing these qualities, skills, and strategies, you will be sure to capture the attention of others and lead by your confident and influential example while leaving a footprint that is sure to impact and enlighten future generations.

Model Rules of Professional Conduct

Model Rules of Professional Conduct
Author: American Bar Association. House of Delegates
Publisher: American Bar Association
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781590318737

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.