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Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- Address -- Ladies and Gentlemen, -- Ladies and Gentlemen, -- Welcome Address -- Address -- Conclusion -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Agenda -- Crisis and Disaster Management Terminology -- Introduction -- A New Story of Tower of Babel -- Conclusion -- Toward a Balkans' Data for Disaster Management Collaborative? -- Introduction -- Characterizing the Information and Collaboration Gap -- How to Narrow the Gaps: Building a Data Collaborative -- How to Narrow the Gaps: Harnessing Big Data and Geoinformatics -- Conclusions -- References -- Modern Global Problems Related to Climate Changes and Their Impact on South Caucasus and Georgia -- Introduction -- Effect of the Climate Changes to South Caucasus Region -- Conclusions and Recommendations -- References -- Disasters and Security: Key Concepts -- Presentation Overview and Objectives -- Key Takeaways -- Presenter Background -- Suggested Key Readings -- Conclusion -- References -- Disaster Risk Management: General Peer Review of the Disaster Management System in the Republic of Bulgaria -- General Peer Review of the Disaster Management System in the Republic of Bulgaria -- The Peer Review Mission Was Conducted over 10 Days from 22 June Until 1 July 2015 -- Conclusion -- References -- On the Necessity of Improving the Research Infrastructure in the Western Black Sea for the Purposes of Flood Risk Management -- Introduction -- Flood Events: Most Frequent Natural Disasters -- Implementation of EU Flood Directive in Bulgaria -- Flood Hazard in the Bulgarian Coastal Zone -- Coastal Flood Hazard and Flood Risk Assessment: Bulgarian Methodological Guidance -- Main Components for Determination of Total Sea Level -- Data and Models for Flood Maps Production -- Improving Scientific Infrastructure in the Western Black Sea for Flood Risk Management.

Everywhere in the world communities and nations organize themselves in relation to water. We divert water from rivers, lakes, and aquifers to our homes, workplaces, irrigation canals, and hydro-generating stations. We use it for bathing, swimming, recreation, and it functions as a symbol of purity in ritual performances. In order to facilitate and manage our relationship with water, we develop institutions, technologies, and cultural practices entirely devoted to its appropriation and distribution, and through these institutions we construct relations of class, gender, ethnicity, and nationality. Relying on first-hand ethnographic research, the contributors to this volume examine the social life of water in diverse settings and explore the impacts of commodification, urbanization, and technology on the availability and quality of water supplies. Each case study speaks to a local set of issues, but the overall perspective is global, with representation from all continents