Flood Risk Assessments

Flood Risk Assessments
Author: Andrés Díez-Herrero
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2020-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9783039369386

In recent years, a considerable volume of technical literature has been published on flood hazard analysis, and more recently, on flood vulnerability and resilience. Nevertheless, there is still a shortage of scientific studies and practical experience of real flood risk assessment (both social and economic), including hazard, exposure and vulnerability analyses and their integration. As there are so few references available, applications of flood risk assessment to the design of preventive measures and early warning systems, landscape and urban planning, civil protection, insurance systems, and risk-based information and education, cannot reach their full potential development. This is because the research products available, such as hazard data and maps, do not serve to ensure the efficient prioritization of mitigation measures or communities at risk. Meanwhile, flooding is the natural disaster that causes the greatest loss on a global scale, and due to climate change, this situation is expected to continue. The research manuscripts involved in this book try to offer flood risk managers new tools, data and maps to improve risk mitigation, both preventive and corrective. A wide variety of topics have been covered, including: flood risk data sources; techniques and methodologies for flood risk analysis; flood risk mapping; or flood risk analysis calibrations.

The Language of Emotions

The Language of Emotions
Author: Maïa Ponsonnet
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2014-12-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027269203

The Language of Emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia) is the first extensive study of the linguistic encoding of emotions in an Australian language, and further, in an endangered, non-European language. Based on first-hand data collected using innovative methods, the monograph describes and analyzes how Dalabon speakers express emotions (using interjections, prosody, evaluative morphology) and the words they use to describe and discuss emotions. Like many languages, Dalabon makes broad use of body-part words in descriptions of emotions. The volume analyzes the figurative functions of these body-part words, as well as their non-figurative functions. Correlations between linguistic features and cultural patterns are systematically questioned. Beyond Australianists and linguists working on emotions, the book will be of interest to anthropological linguists, cognitive linguists, or linguists working on discourse and communication for instance. It is accessible also to non-linguists with an interest in language, in particular anthropologists and psychologists.

Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin – Current Situation and Risks for the Future. First Mediterranean Assessment Report

Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin – Current Situation and Risks for the Future. First Mediterranean Assessment Report
Author: Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change (MedECC)
Publisher: MedECC
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2020-11-17
Genre: Science
ISBN: 2957741601

The First Mediterranean Assessment Report (MAR1) prepared by the independent network of Mediterranean Experts on Climate and environmental Change (MedECC) founded in 2015 was published in November 2020. MAR1 assesses the best available scientific knowledge on climate and environmental change and associated risks in the Mediterranean Basin in order to render it accessible to policymakers, stakeholders and citizens. The report has been written by 190 scientists from 25 countries, all contributing in individual capacity and without financial compensation. The report includes a Summary for Policymakers (SPM), which comprises the key messages of the MAR1. The UNEP/MAP – Barcelona Convention Secretariat, through its Plan Bleu Regional Activity Center, and the Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean work in partnership to support MedECC, and to contribute to establish a sound and transparent scientific assessment process.

Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology

Decolonial Feminist Community Psychology
Author: Floretta Boonzaier
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2019-07-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3030200019

This edited volume seeks to critically engage with the diversity of feminist and post-colonial theory to counter hegemonic Western knowledge in mainstream community psychology. In doing so, it situates paradigms of thought and representation that capture the lived experiences of those in the global South. Specifically, the book takes an intersectional approach towards its reshaping of community psychology, centering African, black, postcolonial, and decolonial feminist critiques in its 1) critique of existing hegemonic Euro-American community psychology concepts, theories, and practice, 2) proposal of new feminist, indigenous, and decolonial methodological approaches, and 3) real-life examples of engagement, research, dialogue, and reflexive qualitative psychology practice. The book concludes with an agenda for theorization and research for future practice in postcolonial contexts. The volume is relevant to researchers, practitioners, and students in psychology, anthropology, sociology, public health, development studies, social work, urban studies, and women’s and gender studies across global contexts.

Water-Quality Hydrology

Water-Quality Hydrology
Author: V.P. Singh
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9401103933

Water is vital to life, maintenance of ecological balance, economic development, and sustenance of civilization. Planning and management of water resources and its optimal use are a matter of urgency for most countries of the world, and even more so for India with a huge population. Growing population and expanding economic activities exert increasing demands on water for varied needs--domestic, industrial, agricultural, power generation, navigation, recreation, etc. In India, agriculture is the highest user of water. The past three decades have witnessed numerous advances as well as have presented intriguing challenges and exciting opportunities in hydrology and water resources. Compounding them has been the growing environmental consciousness. Nowhere are these challenges more apparent than in India. As we approach the twenty first century, it is entirely fitting to take stock of what has been accomplished and what remains to be accomplished, and what accomplishments are relevant, with particular reference to Indian conditions.

Reclaiming Sodom

Reclaiming Sodom
Author: Jonathan Goldberg
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1994
Genre: Homosexuality
ISBN: 9780415907552

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Cracking the code

Cracking the code
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2017-09-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9231002333

This report aims to 'crack the code' by deciphering the factors that hinder and facilitate girls' and women's participation, achievement and continuation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and, in particular, what the education sector can do to promote girls' and women's interest in and engagement with STEM education and ultimately STEM careers.

Meeting at Grand Central

Meeting at Grand Central
Author: Lee Cronk
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691154953

"Meeting at Grand Central brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation."--Publisher's website.

The Debate on Modernity

The Debate on Modernity
Author: Claude Geffré
Publisher: Concilium
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN:

Towards a theological interpretation of modernity / Claude Geffre? and Jean-Pierre Jossua -- The historical destiny of modernity -- Modernity: A sociological perspective / Gregory Baum -- Catholicism and modernity: A process of mutual exclusion / Emile Poulat -- The philosophical critique of modernity / Helmut Peukert -- Attempts at reconciling modernity and religion in Catholic and Protestant theology / Christoph Theobald -- Postmodernity: its seductions-and a critique -- The end of enlightenment: Post-modern or post-secular? / John Milbank -- Between praxis and theory: theology in a crisis over orientation / Werner Jeanrond -- The reciprocal exclusiveness of modernity and religion among contemporary thinkers: Ju'rgen Habermas and Marcel Gauchet / Anne Fortin-Melkevik -- The crisis of modernity and the Church's attitudes -- What is Christian about Europe? / Rudolf von Thadden -- The debate about modernity in the North Atlantic world and the Third World / Juan Carlos Scannone -- The attitude of the Church to the modern world at and after Vatican II / Giovanni Turbanti.