Recipe for Disaster

Recipe for Disaster
Author: Susan McGeown
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2007-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0615146082

Karly Martin is a survivor, stronger and braver than she ever thought possible. Giving up her son for adoption and accepting a teaching position at a Navajo mission school gives her the chance to build on the dreams she thought she had to abandon, and slowly she begins to heal. Earl Nezbegay sees to all of his responsibilities: caring for his quadriplegic sister and her eleven year old daughter while helping out at the Navajo mission school -- keeping busy enough not to think, numb enough not to feel, and distant enough not to interact. Neither of these broken people is looking for love, but life isn't always what we plan or expect, is it?

The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation

The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation
Author: Ilan Kelman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 930
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1317408640

The Routledge Handbook of Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation aims to provide an overview and critique of the current state of knowledge, policy, and practice, encouraging engagement, and reflection on bringing the two sectors together. This long-awaited and welcomed volume makes a compelling case that a common research agenda and a series of practical policies and policy recommendations can and should be put in place. Over 40 contributions explore DRR including CCA in five parts. The first part presents and interrogates much of the typical vocabulary seen in DRR including CCA, not only pointing out the useful and not-so-useful dimensions, but also providing alternatives and positive examples. The second part explains how to move forward creating and supporting positive crossovers and connections, while the third one explores some aspects of multi-dimensional approaches to knowing and understanding. The fourth part argues for a balanced approach to governance, taking both governmental and non-governmental governance, as well as different scales of governance, into consideration. The final part of the Handbook emphasises DRR including CCA as an investment, rather than a cost, and connects its further implementation with livelihoods of people around the world. This handbook highlights the connections amongst the processes of dealing with disasters and dealing with climate change. It demonstrates how little climate change brings which is new and emphasises the strengths of placing climate change within wider contexts in order to draw on all our strengths while overcoming limitations with specialities. It will prove to be a valuable guide for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, academics, policy makers, and practitioners with an interest in disaster risk reduction and climate change.

Septième Réunion Du Sous-comité Ouest Et Centre Africain de Corrélation Des Sols Pour la Mise en Valeur Des Terres

Septième Réunion Du Sous-comité Ouest Et Centre Africain de Corrélation Des Sols Pour la Mise en Valeur Des Terres
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789251044544

This document contains the proceedings of a technical consultation on the soil resources information systems developed in the various countries in the European region and their incorporation into the European Soil Information System (EUSIS). The consultation was held in Rome 2-3 September 1999. It was convened by the European Commission and the FAO with support from the International Union of Soil Science. The purpose of the meeting was to promote the establishment of the EUSIS to enable easy inter-European exchange of data and experience and to facilitate problem solving. A summary report of the technical discussions, conclusions and recommendations are included. Detailed country reports are also included.

Fiscal Resilience to Natural Disasters Lessons from Country Experiences

Fiscal Resilience to Natural Disasters Lessons from Country Experiences
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2019-05-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9264969446

This report presents the results of a study that compares country practices in the management of the financial implications of disasters on government finances for a set of OECD member countries and partner economies particularly exposed to natural hazards.

Natural Disaster Hotspots

Natural Disaster Hotspots
Author: Maxx Dilley
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2005
Genre: Hazardous geographic environments
ISBN: 0821359304

This synthesis summarizes the findings of the Global Natural Disaster Risk Hotspots project. The Hotspots project generated a global disaster risk assessment and a set of more localized or hazard-specific case studies. The synthesis draws primarily from the results of the global assessment. Full details on the data, methods and results of the global analysis can be found in volume one of Natural Disaster Hotspots: A Global Risk Analysis. The case studies are contained in volume two (forthcoming).

Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Small States

Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Small States
Author: Wonderful Hope Khonje
Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-10-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1849291896

Strengthening Disaster Resilience in Small States: Commonwealth Perspectives offers timely and expert analysis of differentiated exposure of small states to natural disasters, including an examination of specific interventions for strengthening small states’ resilience to this phenomenon