... climate
change and its attributed environmental and
socio-economic consequences over past decades,
particularly over the last several years, has led to
a growing body of literature and increasing
concern ... inflicted by disaster agents would increase dra-
matically given the proportionate increase of the vulner-
ability of communities and industrial assets driven by
accelerated urbanization and economic ... measures
focused on disaster risk prevention, damage mitigation
and arrangements for efficient risk sharing. Especially
emphasized is the salient role of financial systems and
tools suchas insurance in...
... the increasing intensity and fre-
quency of natural disasters and extreme weather
events (Srinivas and Nakagawa, 2008; Smith
et al., 2009). The rate of increase of disasters as
well as the numbers ... post-disaster response can actually increase
vulnerabilities in the long term (Anderson and
Woodrow, 1998; Schipper and Pelling, 2006).
Nonetheless, as the emphasis continues to shift
from disaster ... renewal and
transformation; and (3) and understanding
of change and uncertainty as inherent in
social-ecological systems.
This statement strongly reflects the convergent
aspects of CCA and DRR....
... Geneva,
Switzerland.
ISDR, 2009. Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk
Reduction: Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate.
United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
Janssen, M. A. and Anderies, J. ... scholars, and increase collaboration between
the young and the seasoned within academic
institutions, 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 from
the Ashes....
... discussion).
Specifically, if one looks at the increasing activity
in the basin the increase has occurred in the east-
ernmost part of the basin, far from land. The
activity in areas where landfall takes place
shows very ... (AMM) and even more exotic
relationships suchas with the Quasibiennial
Oscillation (QBO), Cold Tongue Index (CTI),
African dust and rainfall, Asian and North Amer-
ican smog, sunspot activity and ... skill of existing
seasonal predictions of basin activity is modest
at best (e.g. Owens and Landsea, 2003), efforts
to predict landfall rates on longer timescales
based on NATL basin activity are...
... target
was increased from 60 per cent to at least 80 per
cent and the scope was extended to cover not
only CO
2
but the full basket of Kyoto greenhouse
gases (CO
2
,CH
4
,N
2
O, HFCs, PFCs and SF
6
).
The ... goal and
finally setting the UK’s contribution to the
global trajectory. The process was strongly
evidence-based and made extensive use of
model results, but it was not an integrated,
model-based ... hurricane
landfalls and their impacts will be those who
best match their decisions to what can and
cannot be known about the uncertain future.
And such wisdom starts with understanding the
historical record and...
... settle-
ments at coastal locations where hurricanes often
make landfall, suchas Florida (Pielke et al., 2008;
Schmidt et al., 2009). In the future, urbanization
in hazard-prone areas suchas coastal agglomera-
tions ... of the increased damage due to natural disas-
ters around the globe can be explained by socio-
economic developments suchas an increased
population and concentration of wealth in areas
that are ... developments are a major deter-
minant of the occurrence and consequences of
natural disasters. Natural hazards such as
storms, flash floods, heat waves and storm
surges are natural phenomena. However,...
... risk, suchas insurance purchases.
However, in many cases this framework fails to
adequately describe behaviour in practice,
especially in the case of low-probability, high-
impact risks suchas ... disaster aimed at creating con-
ditions within the human system that enhance
this system’s resistance to disasters and its
capacity to respond to, and cushion impacts of,
a disaster (Handmer and ... protection measures, such as
dikes or building codes.
Over time, catastrophe models need to be
updated due to socio-economic developments
and climate change. In case climate change
increases the...
... crisis. As a drought-prone
country with massive fossil fuel resources, and
with important economic sectors suchas agricul-
ture and tourism vulnerable to climate shifts,
Australia stands to ... in
this respect as well. Perceptions may deviate
from expert assessments and influence risk man-
agement of households, suchas investments in
precautionary measures or insurance purchases.
A combination ... the
reporting of climate change, which has been
found to correlate with increased temperatures
(Ungar, 1992; McComas and Shanahan, 1999),
peak events suchas the 1997 Kyoto conference
(Krosnick...
... as the villain was Queensland,
which was blamed for taking too much water
out of the system, in particular by South Australia,
which was the most badly affected state. As an
example, Queensland ... wetlands which perform essential
hydrological, biological and chemical functions
and which support and maintain the productivity
and health of the river systems. A number of the
Basin wetlands ... context, andassuch involve many twists
and turns in which the states depending on the
Basin for water supply (New South Wales,
Queensland, South Australia, the Australian
Capital Territory and Victoria)...
... management and
climate change was justified by the fact that Minister
Penny 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.CQ
Press, Washington, DC.
Gurevitch, M. and Levy, M. R., 1985. Introduction. Mass
Communication Yearbook, Vol. 5, M. Gurevitch and
M. R. Levy (eds). ... Threats, Dilemmas and Opportunities,
U. Rosenthal, A. Boin and L. Comfort (eds). Charles
C. Thomas, Springfield, IL.
Seeger, M. W., Sellnow, T. L. and Ulmer, R. R., 2003.
Communication and Organizational...
... Cách dùng assuch và such as
Hai cụm từ, assuch và such as, trông thì có vẻ giống nhau nhưng trên thực
tế hai cụm từ này khác nhau về nghĩa.
As such có hai nghĩa. ...
nói:
She's an athlete, andassuch she has to train very hard.
The film was a romance, andassuch it had the usual happy ending.
Chúng ta cũng có thể dùng assuch để diễn tả ý một ... sell books as such, but it does sell magazines and
newspapers.
Tạp chí và báo cũng là mặt hàng tương tự như sách, nhưng chúng không
phải là sách.
He isn't American as such, but...
... necessity, chaos and order, body and mind,
individual and totality, change and continuity, in the measured aesthetic
vision, which is henceforth to be respected in life as much as in art.
Schiller ... everything. What mattered
was simply to know something and say it. In practice, it was far harder
to assert than prove something (no. ; KFSA
II
, ). But even an asser-
tion was not final, merely ... anamnesis, the
re-call and re-presentation of the past, so that the past’s meaning thereby
becomes present, and Hyperion’s ascent to higher vision is enacted in
the text. Stranded in philistine...
... Automator and resave it.
In any case, if you decide to save a workflow as an application, choose File Save As,
and then select Application from the pop-up menu at the bottom.
7.4.2. Workflows as ...
In the Save As dialog box, however, there's another choice for saving your workflows: as
an application (Figure 7-13
).
A workflow saved as an application has all the benefits associated ... the workflow as a Finder plug-in.
7.4. Workflows as Programs and Plug-ins
Building an Automator workflow is a satisfying intellectual exercise and a delicious
talent to acquire. But if the point...