... 3): Black Light AndWhite RabbitsDoing More With Loops 4 And the output is:The string black light starts with blThe string white rabbit ends with itThe JSP Files (part 3): Black Light AndWhite ... toUpperCase() and toLowerCase() methods come in handy to alter the case of a string.// define variableString someString = "don't SCREam, help is oN the WAy!";// uppercase − returns ... another one (which keepsdecreasing), it is advisable to check the divisor and use the "break" statement to exit the loop as soon as itbecomes equal to zero. As you've already seen,...
... 8Staff selection case study 2The next stage is to try and find peop le from within the company withthe necessary skills. However, the company has expanded significantly and has few staff available. ... discussed by the group as a whole and tasks are allocated according to ability and experience. This approach is successful for groups where allmembers are experienced and competent.âIan Sommerville ... self-oriented and interaction oriented. She felt that she was primarily a self-orientedtype as she felt that this project was a way in which she would be noticed by seniormanagement and promoted....
... climatechange and its attributed environmental and socio-economic consequences over past decades,particularly over the last several years, has led toa growing body of literature and increasingconcern ... inflicted by disaster agents would increase dra-matically given the proportionate increase of the vulner-ability of communities and industrial assets driven byaccelerated urbanization and economic ... more binding and comprehensive regulation of both greenhouse gasemissions and adaptation measures, like that in the United Kingdom●Matching climate policy with that for disasters and introducing...
... the increasing intensity and fre-quency of natural disasters and extreme weatherevents (Srinivas and Nakagawa, 2008; Smithet al., 2009). The rate of increase of disasters as well as the numbers ... post-disaster response can actually increasevulnerabilities in the long term (Anderson and Woodrow, 1998; Schipper and Pelling, 2006).Nonetheless, as the emphasis continues to shiftfrom disaster ... renewal and transformation; and (3) and understandingof change and uncertainty as inherent insocial-ecological systems.This statement strongly reflects the convergentaspects of CCA and DRR....
... Geneva,Switzerland.ISDR, 2009. Global Assessment Report on Disaster RiskReduction: Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate.United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.Janssen, M. A. and Anderies, J. ... scholars, and increase collaboration betweenthe young and the seasoned within academicinstitutions, development and relief organiz-ations and government. We see this path,embedded in adaptive and ... Community-based disaster prepa-redness and climate adaptation: local capacity-building in the Philippines. Disasters, 30(1).81–101.Anderson, M. B. and Woodrow, P. J., 1998. Rising fromthe Ashes....
... discussion).Specifically, if one looks at the increasing activityin the basin the increase has occurred in the east-ernmost part of the basin, far from land. Theactivity in areas where landfall takes placeshows very ... of landfall based on first predicting theoverall basin activity. Second, changes observedin the overall basin activity are not spatiallyuniform; increasing activity has occurred farfrom land. ... skill of existingseasonal predictions of basin activity is modestat best (e.g. Owens and Landsea, 2003), effortsto predict landfall rates on longer timescalesbased on NATL basin activity are...
... much tighter and also broader target. The 2050 reduction targetwas increased from 60 per cent to at least 80 percent and the scope was extended to cover notonly CO2but the full basket of Kyoto ... goal and finally setting the UK’s contribution to theglobal trajectory. The process was stronglyevidence-based and made extensive use ofmodel results, but it was not an integrated,model-based ... increased by4 per cent per year since 2005, leading to a 12.5 percent increase in the normalized data from the 2005baseline. 2006 had no hurricane landfalls, and thusno damage. 2007 had one landfall,...
... of the increased damage due to natural disas-ters around the globe can be explained by socio-economic developments such as an increasedpopulation and concentration of wealth in areasthat are ... settle-ments at coastal locations where hurricanes oftenmake landfall, such as Florida (Pielke et al., 2008;Schmidt et al., 2009). In the future, urbanizationin hazard-prone areas such as coastal agglomera-tions ... in2009 killed over 200 people and damaged largepieces of land with devastating effects on wildlife.The sharp increase in tempo and severity of therecent disasters made some leading academicssuggest...
... disaster aimed at creating con-ditions within the human system that enhancethis system’s resistance to disasters and itscapacity to respond to, and cushion impacts of,a disaster (Handmer and ... lossesduring and after a disaster, and emphasizes inge-nuity and resourcefulness applied.In the context of climate change Timmerman(1981) defines resilience as the capacity toabsorb and recover from ... safety standards and protec-tion investments, as has been done in the Nether-lands (van Dantzig, 1956; Jonkman et al., 2004). Adrawback of hazard prevention with engineeringinfrastructure...
... Meetings of the RegionalScience Association International. Philadelphia, PA.Rose, A., 2004a. Defining and measuring economic resi-lience to disasters.Disaster Prevention and Manage-ment,13(4).307–314.Rose, ... Earthscan, London.Slovic,P.,Finucane,M.L.,Peters,E.andMacGregor,D.G.,2004. Risk as analysis and risk as feelings: somethoughts about affect, reason, risk, and rationality.Risk Analysis, 24(2). 311 ... Oliveira,2008); pandemics (Buus and Olsson, 2006; Shihet al., 2008; Ungar, 2008) and climate change(McComas and Shanahan, 1999; Weingart et al.,2000; Berglez, 2008; Olsson and Paglia, 2008).This...
... as the villain was Queensland,which was blamed for taking too much waterout of the system, in particular by South Australia,which was the most badly affected state. As anexample, Queensland ... wetlands which perform essentialhydrological, biological and chemical functions and which support and maintain the productivity and health of the river systems. A number of theBasin wetlands ... context, andas such involve many twists and turns in which the states depending on theBasin for water supply (New South Wales,Queensland, South Australia, the AustralianCapital Territory and Victoria)...
... management and climate change was justified by the fact that MinisterPenny Wong was the minister for climate change and water.5. The Coorong Wetlands are one of the most impor-tant wetlands in ... NY.Graber, D., 1993. Mass Media and American politics.CQPress, Washington, DC.Gurevitch, M. and Levy, M. R., 1985. Introduction. MassCommunication Yearbook, Vol. 5, M. Gurevitch and M. R. Levy (eds). ... Threats, Dilemmas and Opportunities,U. Rosenthal, A. Boin and L. Comfort (eds). CharlesC. Thomas, Springfield, IL.Seeger, M. W., Sellnow, T. L. and Ulmer, R. R., 2003.Communication and Organizational...