Assessing Risk to the National Critical Functions as a Result of Climate Change

Assessing Risk to the National Critical Functions as a Result of Climate Change
Author: Michelle E. Miro
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2022-04-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1977409067
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National Critical Functions (NCFs) are government and private-sector functions so vital that their disruption would debilitate security, the economy, public health, or safety. Researchers developed a risk management framework to assess and manage the risk that climate change poses to the NCFs and use the framework to assess 27 priority NCFs. This report details the risk assessment portions of the framework.

Dynamics of Meteor Outbursts and Satellite Mitigation Strategies

Dynamics of Meteor Outbursts and Satellite Mitigation Strategies
Author: Glenn E. Peterson
Publisher: AIAA
Total Pages: 622
Release: 1999
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781563473531
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The potential threat posed by Leonid meteroids to orbiting spacecraft over the next several years calls for new dynamic mitigation strategies to assist the satellite community in reducing the danger to its vehicles. This book offers deliberate dynamic mitigation strategies to complement the traditional shielding strategies, providing mission operators additional ways to decrease the danger. Five different attitude control and orbit maneuvering options are examined in detail. The information is presented in algorithmic form to allow technically competent, but meteoroid inexperienced, operators to easily understand the phenomena, assess the danger, and implement procedures. Although general in scope, the book emphasizes the Leonid meteor events of the 1998-2002 timeframe.

Global Instability and Strategic Crisis

Global Instability and Strategic Crisis
Author: Neville Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134409613
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The author seeks to bring new perspectives to current debates and argues that control of the missile threats cannot be achieved without addressing ecological, economic, social and cultural elements in a stable world order.

Coastal Environments in Popular Song

Coastal Environments in Popular Song
Author: Glenn Fosbraey
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2022-12-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 100081467X
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This book examines how popular music is able to approach subjects of bio-politics, climate change, solastalgia, and anthropomorphisation, alongside its more common diet of songs about love, dancing, and break-ups – all while satisfying its primary remit of being entertaining and listenable. Nearly a thousand books have been published on bioethics since Van Rensselaer Potter’s Bioethics Bridge to the Future (1971), with a marked increase in the past 20 years. However, not one of these books has focused itself on popular music, something Christopher Partridge describes as ‘central to the construction of [our] identities, central to [our] sense of self, central to [our] well-being and, therefore, central to [our] social relations’. This edited collection examines popular music through a range of topics, from romance to climate change. Coastal Environments in Popular Song is perfect for students, scholars, and researchers alike interested in bioethics, social history, and the history of music.

Current Geographical Publications

Current Geographical Publications
Author: University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 884
Release: 1997
Genre: Geography
ISBN:
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Current Geographical Publications (CGP) is a non-profit service to the scholarly community initiated in 1938 by the American Geographical Society of New York. Beginning in 2006, the format changed to include the tables of contents of current geographical journals. The journal titles listed link to web pages or PDF scans of the current issue's contents.