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A Comprehensive Analytical Framework of Risks, Disasters and Crisis -- Implementation of Analytical Framework of Risks, Disaster and Crisis--A instance of Mass Incidents and their Governance -- Perception, Amplification and Communication: Case studies of Risks on Food Safety -- Operation Mechanisms, Performance Constrains and Management Optimization of China Emergency plan--Case study on Highway Emergency Plan -- Policy Framework of Emergency Response Capability Assessment for Local Government--Case Study on Shenzhen City's Practice of Emergency Response Assessment Policy -- Chronic Task of Emergency Governance, Disaster Mitigation and Sustaining Social Stability -- Develop and Improve Emergency Response Systems with Chinese Characters -- Extensive promotion of risk management -- Improve Environmental Risk Management, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Policy -- Social Risk and Prevention -- Changing the Safety Supervision Regime from "Single Subject" to " Multiple Participation"—Case Study in Food Safety -- Improve Accountability System, Especially Risk Accountability -- References -- Postscript

Field hospitals are deployed in a wide range of scenarios including natural disasters, epidemic outbreaks, armed conflicts and refugee crises. Operation in these conditions requires adaptation to disaster medicine principles and operation in an austere environment and unfamiliar cultural milieu, whilst maintaining acceptable standards of care. For many of those involved it may be their first encounter. This book, which is the first to address the preparation and operation of field hospitals, brings together the experience of world leaders in the field. Coming from a wide variety of organizations and backgrounds, all have extensive experience in field hospital deployment in multiple scenarios. The text - containing both background information and practical guidelines - will serve all those involved in field hospital deployment, including policy makers and planners, physicians and nurses, paramedical professionals and logisticians. It will help them deliver optimal care to people around the globe in difficult times of need.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Maximizing the effects of intergroup contact: structuring the contact setting -- 2 Extended intergroup contact: the need to identify practical strategies in order to produce new theory -- 3 Vicarious intergroup contact and media vicarious contact: theoretical, methodological, and practical distinctions -- 4 Imagined intergroup contact and its real potential: applying interventions in the field -- 5 Fighting indirect forms of prejudice: the role of intergroup contact in reducing implicit prejudice and fostering outgroup humanity attribution -- 6 The secondary transfer effect: two routes for tackling contextual and generalized prejudice -- 7 Creating a bridge between intergroup contact and collective action research: a model on how contact can foster collective action among high- and low-status groups -- 8 Promoting positive intergroup relations among survivors of natural disasters -- Considering the real-world impact of intergroup contact research -- References -- Index.

Intro -- Figures -- Plates -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Foreword -- 1. Morrison's miracle: Analysing the 2019 Australian federal election -- Part 1. Campaign and context -- 2. Election campaign overview -- 3. The rules of the game -- 4. Candidates and pre‑selection -- 5. Ideology and populism -- 6. The personalisation of the campaign -- 7. National polling and other disasters -- 8. The perilous polling of single seats -- Part 2. The results -- 9. House of Representatives results -- 10. The Senate result -- 11. The election in the States, Territories and regions -- 12. Voter behaviour -- Part 3. Actors -- 13. The Australian Labor Party -- 14. The Liberal Party -- 15. The National Party of Australia -- 16. The Australian Greens -- 17. The minor parties -- 18. The Independents -- 19. Business -- 20. Unions -- 21. Third parties and think tanks -- Part 4. Media -- 24. Media coverage -- 25. Party campaign communications -- 26. Cartoons, memes and videos.

The World's Most Prestigious Prize: The Inside Story of the Nobel Peace Prize is a fascinating, insider account of the Nobel peace prize. Drawing on unprecedented access to the Norwegian Nobel Institute's vast archive, it offers a gripping account of the founding of the prize, as well as its highs and lows, triumphs and disasters, over the last one-hundred-and-twenty years. But more than that, the book also draws on the author's unique insight during his twenty-five years as Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. It reveals the real story of all the laureates of that period - some of them among the most controversial in the history of the prize (Gorbachev, Arafat, Peres and Rabin, Mandela and De Klerk, Obama, and Liu Xiaobo) - and exactly why they came to receive the prize.

Covers -- Editorial advisory board -- Guest editorial -- Views from the Frontline and Frontline methodology: critical reflection on theory and practice -- Developing the CSO case studies -- Traditional Kiribati beliefs about environmental issues and its impacts on rural and urban communities -- Advancing small island resilience and inclusive development through a convergence strategy in Carles, Philippines -- Waiting for politics at the mercy of river: case study of an enduring community -- Social and economic inequality limits disaster prevention amongst the most vulnerable in Vietnam -- Tackling everyday risks through climate adaptive organic farming -- Citizens of Delhi lead resilience action -- Enhancing resilience against floods in the Lower Motowoh community, Limbe, Southwest Cameroon -- Enhancing earthquake resilience of communities: an action by women's groups in Nepal -- Drawing the case studies together: synthesis of case studies and group discussions -- Making communities disaster resilient -- Local responses to disasters: recent lessons from zero-order responders -- Local voices and action: concluding discussion

"Where there's a storm, there's a story, and over the centuries Atlantic Canada has experienced more than its fair share of weather-related disasters. Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms chronicles many of the most dramatic and tragic storms that have struck the east coast, from 1745's Grand Armada Tragedy to 2017's Ice Storm. In this accessible narrative, author Dan Soucoup recounts the winter blizzards, floods, tornadoes--and even tsunamis--that have created havoc in Atlantic Canada. From the great hurricanes of the North Atlantic--including the 1775 Independence Hurricane, the Saxby Gale in 1869, and Hurricane Igor in 2010--to the terrifying series of blizzards in 1905 (The Year of the Deep Snow), which left passenger trains stranded for days in the Annapolis Valley, and Newfoundland's 1929 tsunami, which devastated the Burin Peninsula, striking dozens of coastal communities and carrying people and homes out to sea."--

Democratic countries, such as Australia, face the dilemma of preserving public and national security without sacrificing fundamental freedoms. In the context where the rule of law is an underlying assumption of the constitutional framework, Emergency Powers in Australia provides a succinct analysis of the sorts of emergency which have been experienced in Australia and an evaluation of the legal weapons available to the authorities to cope with these emergencies. It analyses the scope of the defence power to determine the constitutionality of federal legislation to deal with wartime crises and the 'war' on terrorism, the extent of the executive power and its relationship to the prerogative, the deployment of the defence forces in aid of the civil power, the statutory frameworks regulating the responses to civil unrest, and natural disasters. The role of the courts when faced with challenges to the invocation of emergency powers is explained and analysed.

"Dramatic events in the contemporary world--wars, revolutions, political upheavals, terrorist attacks, catastrophic natural disasters, economic crises, and the endless stream of daily news--often obscure the long-developing historical processes that have created the societies in which we live and the current problems with which we have to cope. The mass media pay little attention to the broader historical patterns and contexts that shape the deeper meaning of swiftly moving public events and private lives. This new edition of A History of Europe in the Modern World therefore brings new information, documents, and interpretations to the ongoing search for historical perspectives on the complex, often bewildering, events of our own era. Although this book (as in past editions) focuses specifically on the history of Europe, it also emphasizes that modern European history has always evolved through interactions and exchanges with the wider world"--

Democratic countries, such as Australia, face the dilemma of preserving public and national security without sacrificing fundamental freedoms. In the context where the rule of law is an underlying assumption of the constitutional framework, Emergency Powers in Australia provides a succinct analysis of the sorts of emergency which have been experienced in Australia and an evaluation of the legal weapons available to the authorities to cope with these emergencies. It analyses the scope of the defence power to determine the constitutionality of federal legislation to deal with wartime crises and the 'war' on terrorism, the extent of the executive power and its relationship to the prerogative, the deployment of the defence forces in aid of the civil power, the statutory frameworks regulating the responses to civil unrest, and natural disasters. The role of the courts when faced with challenges to the invocation of emergency powers is explained and analysed.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Editors -- Contributors -- 1: Governance of Climate Change: Issues and Challenges in South Asia -- 2: "A Disappearing" or a Resilient Ganga? Climate Change Perspectives from the Himalaya -- 3: Deliberative Governance on Vulnerability to Climate Change: Voices from Madhesi Farmers -- 4: Waste or Savior? Two Cases of Emerging Wastewater Irrigation in Urbanizing Kathmandu Valley -- 5: Climate Migration and Flood Related Disasters -- 6: Changing Social Capital in the Mountains and the Implications for Adaptation Interventions: An Exploratory Analysis with Case Studies from the Hindu Kush Himalaya -- 7: Enhancing Adaptive Capacity through Education: A Case Study of Rural Mountain Communities, Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya India -- 8: Governing National Actions for Global Climate Change Stabilization: Examples from India -- 9: Bridges and Barriers for Governance of Water Resources in South Asia-Insights from Brahmaputra Basin in India -- Index.

The First World War left a legacy of chaos that is still with us a century later. Why did European leaders resort to war and why did they not end it sooner? Roger L. Ransom sheds new light on this enduring puzzle by employing insights from prospect theory and notions of risk and uncertainty. He reveals how the interplay of confidence, fear, and a propensity to gamble encouraged aggressive behavior by leaders who pursued risky military strategies in hopes of winning the war. The result was a series of military disasters and a war of attrition which gradually exhausted the belligerents without producing any hope of ending the war. Ultimately, he shows that the outcome of the war rested as much on the ability of the Allied powers to muster their superior economic resources to continue the fight as it did on success on the battlefield

"Making Borders in Modern East Asia Until the late nineteenth century, the Chinese-Korean Tumen River border was one of the oldest, and perhaps most stable, state boundaries in the world. Spurred by severe food scarcity following a succession of natural disasters, from the 1860s countless Korean refugees crossed the Tumen river border into Qing-China's Manchuria, triggering a decades-long territorial dispute between China, Korea, and Japan. This major new study of a multilateral and multiethnic frontier highlights the competing state- and nation-building projects in the fraught period that witnessed the Sino-Japanese war, the Russo-Japanese War, and the First World War. The power-plays over land and people simultaneously promoted China's frontier-building endeavours, motivated Korea's nationalist imagination, and stimulated Japan's colonialist enterprise, setting East Asia on an intricate trajectory from the late-imperial to a situation that, Song argues, we call modern"--

ch. 1. Hazards and disasters -- ch. 2. Preparedness, hazard mitigation, and climate change adaptation : an overview -- ch. 3. Meteorological and hydrological hazards : hurricanes, sea level rise, floods, drought, wildfire, tornadoes, severe winter weather, and extreme heat -- ch. 4. Geological hazards : earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, landslides, coastal erosion, and land subsidence -- ch. 5. Human-made hazards : terrorism, civil unrest, and technological hazards -- ch. 6. Role of the federal government in disaster management -- ch. 7. Mitigating hazards at the state level : divergent views and outcomes -- ch. 8. Local government powers : building resilience from the ground up -- ch. 9. Community resilience and the private sector -- ch. 10. Risk assessment : identifying hazards and assessing vulnerability -- ch. 11. Preparedness activities : planning to be ready when disaster hits -- ch. 12. Hazard mitigation activities : creating strategies to reduce vulnerability -- ch. 13. Disaster resilience : living with our environment.

Coastal Hazards in Bangladesh: Non-Structural and Structural Solutions provides a review of the study of Bangladesh's coastal region, an area whose location and physical geography present the prefect microcosm for the study of coastal hazards and for the development of tactics that are applicable to regions around the world. The book presents engineers, scientists, and planners with the necessary tools and planning solutions used to combat coastal vulnerabilities in Bangladesh. Divided into seven chapters, it begins with a critical overview of cyclone and storm surge disasters, focusing on both engineering responses and public preparedness programs to such events. In addition, engineering recommendations are provided for further reduction of their impacts, such as erosion, accretion, and land subsidence, and numerical models are introduced to assess flood induced hazard and risk, flood-induced design loads, and how to intervene in protecting key installations, infrastructures, and communities