Water Safe! Water Smart!

Water Safe! Water Smart!
Author: Linda Brown
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2010-05
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452009570

In Water Safe! Water Smart! you will read about Linda's account of nearly losing her toddler to a drowning, and realize some of her own moments of clarity that defined her role in educating others about children, water and vigilance! 4,500 people drown annually in the United States. Children under the age of five and young adults between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four have the highest rate of drowning. Males are four times more likely to drown than females. Most of these incidents occur in backyard swimming pools. Whether you are considering putting in a backyard swimming pool or water proofing your child, Water Safe! Water Smart! will help guide you in the right direction. There are many things to consider when investing in a swimming pool, and these decision should be made based on more than just the aesthetics, where your family is at the moment, and the financial cost. As parents, the best time to ensure your child's safety in and around water is when they're young. Jump in with Linda while she treads you through the simple skills of ensuring your youngster's ability in staying alive under five and then some...

Disaster Resilience and Sustainability

Disaster Resilience and Sustainability
Author: Sangam Shrestha
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 836
Release: 2021-06-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0323851967

Disasters undermine societal well-being, causing loss of lives and damage to social and economic infrastructures. Disaster resilience is central to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, especially in regions where extreme inequality combines with the increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters. Disaster risk reduction and resilience requires participation of wide array of stakeholders ranging from academicians to policy makers to disaster managers. Disaster Resilient Cities: Adaptation for Sustainable Development offers evidence-based, problem-solving techniques from social, natural, engineering and other disciplinary perspectives. It connects data, research, conceptual work with practical cases on disaster risk management, capturing the multi-sectoral aspects of disaster resilience, adaptation strategy and sustainability. The book links disaster risk management with sustainable development under a common umbrella, showing that effective disaster resilience strategies and practices lead to achieving broader sustainable development goals. - Provides foundational knowledge on integrated disaster risk reduction and management to show how resilience and its associated concept such as adaptive and transformative strategies can foster sustainable development - Brings together disaster risk reduction and resilience scientists, policy-makers and practitioners from different disciplines - Case studies on disaster risk management from natural science, social science, engineering and other relevant disciplinary perspectives

Public Health and Disasters

Public Health and Disasters
Author: Emily Ying Yang Chan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2020-02-24
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9811509247

This book presents the health emergency and disaster risk management (H-EDRM) research landscape, with examples from Asia. In recent years, the intersection of health and disaster risk reduction (DRR) has emerged as an important interdisciplinary field. In several landmark UN agreements adopted in 2015–2016, including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris climate agreement, and the New Urban Agenda (Habitat III), health is acknowledged as an inevitable outcome and a natural goal of disaster risk reduction, and the cross-over of the two fields is essential for the successful implementation of the Sendai Framework. H-EDRM has emerged as an umbrella field that encompasses emergency and disaster medicine, DRR, humanitarian response, community health resilience, and health system resilience. However, this fragmented, nascent field has yet to be developed into a coherent discipline. Key challenges include redundant research, lack of a strategic research agenda, limited development of multisectoral and interdisciplinary approaches, deficiencies in the science–policy–practice nexus, absence of standardized terminology, and insufficient coordination among stakeholders. This book provides a timely and invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, scholars, and frontline practitioners as well as policymakers from across the component domains of H-EDRM.

Smart Environment for Smart Cities

Smart Environment for Smart Cities
Author: T.M. Vinod Kumar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9811368228

This book discusses the design and practice of environmental resources management for smart cities. Presenting numerous city case studies, it focuses on one specific environmental resource in each city. Environmental resources are commonly owned properties that require active inputs from the government and the people, and in any smart city their management calls for a synchronous combination of e-democracy, e-governance and IOT (Internet of Things) systems in a 24/7 framework. Smart environmental resources management uses information and communication technologies, the Internet of Things, internet of governance (e-governance) and internet of people (e-democracy) along with conventional resource management tools to achieve coordinated, effective and efficient management, development, and conservation that equitably improves ecological and economic welfare, without compromising the sustainability of development ecosystems and stakeholders.

Water Safety, Security and Sustainability

Water Safety, Security and Sustainability
Author: Ashok Vaseashta
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 725
Release: 2021-07-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030760081

This book focuses on threats, especially contaminants, to drinking water and the supply system, especially in municipalities but also in industrial and even residential settings. The safety, security, and suitability landscape can be described as dynamic and complex stemming from necessity and hence culpability due to the emerging threats and risks, vis-a-vis globalization resulting in new forms of contaminants being used due to new technologies. The book provides knowledge and guidance for engineers, scientists, designers, researchers, and students who are involved in water, sustainability, and study of security issues. This book starts out with basics of water usage, current statistics, and an overview ofwater resources. The book then introduces different scenarios of safety and security and areas that researchers need to focus. Following that, the book presents different types of contaminants – inadvertent, intentional, or incidental. The next section presents different methodologies of contamination sensing/detection and remediation strategies as per guidance and standards set globally. The book then concludes with selected chapters on water management, including critical infrastructure that is critical to maintaining safe water supplies to cities and municipalities. Each chapter includes descriptive information for professionals in their respective fields. The breadth of chapters offers insights into how science (physical, natural, and social) and technology can support new developments to manage the complexity resident within the evolving threat and risk landscape.

Guidelines for Drinking Water Safety Planning for West Bengal

Guidelines for Drinking Water Safety Planning for West Bengal
Author: Asian Development Bank
Publisher: Asian Development Bank
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9292625284

Water safety planning is considered an international best practice for assessing and managing public health risks from drinking water supply systems. Under the West Bengal Drinking Water Sector Improvement Project and in close collaboration with the World Health Organization, the Asian Development Bank assisted in developing these water safety planning guidelines for the state of West Bengal. This document offers practical guidance for taking a water safety planning approach to bulk water supply systems, particularly in developing and implementing the stages of rural drinking water delivery service schemes in India and elsewhere.

Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015

Computational Science and Its Applications -- ICCSA 2015
Author: Osvaldo Gervasi
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 798
Release: 2015-06-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319214071

The five-volume set LNCS 9155-9159 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2015, held in Banff, AB, Canada, in June 2015. The 232 revised full papers presented in 22 workshops and a general track were carefully reviewed and selected from 780 initial submissions for inclusion in this volume. They cover various areas in computational science ranging from computational science technologies to specific areas of computational science such as computational geometry and security.

Smart Home and Industrial IoT Devices: Critical Perspectives on Cyberthreats, Frameworks and Protocols

Smart Home and Industrial IoT Devices: Critical Perspectives on Cyberthreats, Frameworks and Protocols
Author: Akashdeep Bhardwaj
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2024-10-24
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9815256726

Smart Home and Industrial IoT Devices: Critical Perspectives on Cyber Threats, Frameworks and Protocols provides an in-depth examination of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its profound impact on smart homes and industrial systems. The book begins by exploring the significance of IoT in smart homes, followed by an analysis of emerging cyber threats targeting smart homes and cyber-physical systems. It presents AI and machine learning-based frameworks for monitoring water quality and managing irrigation in agriculture, highlighting their role in IoT ecosystems. The text also discusses a framework to mitigate cyber-attacks on robotic systems and introduces a multinomial naive Bayesian classifier for analyzing smart IoT devices. Dataflow analysis and modeling experiments are detailed, along with a comparison of IoT communication protocols using anomaly detection and security assessment. The book concludes with a discussion on efficient, lightweight intrusion detection systems and a unique taxonomy for IoT frameworks. This book is ideal for students, researchers, and professionals seeking to understand and secure IoT environments.