Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Mines and Mining
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Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Mines and Mining
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Category : Mine rescue work
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: United States. Department of the Interior. Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 804

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Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: C. Albert White
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 794

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Author: Robert B. Jansen
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Category : Dam failures
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Airpower is not widely understood. Even though it has come to play an increasingly important role in both peace and war, the basic concepts that define and govern airpower remain obscure to many people, even to professional military officers. This fact is largely due to fundamental differences of opinion as to whether or not the aircraft has altered the strategies of war or merely its tactics. If the former, then one can see airpower as a revolutionary leap along the continuum of war; but if the latter, then airpower is simply another weapon that joins the arsenal along with the rifle, machine gun, tank, submarine, and radio. This book implicitly assumes that airpower has brought about a revolution in war. It has altered virtually all aspects of war: how it is fought, by whom, against whom, and with what weapons. Flowing from those factors have been changes in training, organization, administration, command and control, and doctrine. War has been fundamentally transformed by the advent of the airplane.

Author: Gary Kulik
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: Federica Ranghieri
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464801541
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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While not all natural disasters can be avoided, their impact on a population can be mitigated through effective planning and preparedness. These are the lessons to be learned from Japan's own megadisaster: the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, the fi rst disaster ever recorded that included an earthquake, a tsunami, a nuclear power plant accident, a power supply failure, and a large-scale disruption of supply chains. It is a sad fact that poor communities are often hardest hit and take the longest to recover from disaster. Disaster risk management (DRM) should therefore be taken into account as a major development challenge, and countries must shift from a tradition of response to a culture of prevention and resilience. Learning from Megadisasters: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake consolidates a set of 36 Knowledge Notes, research results of a joint study undertaken by the Government of Japan and the World Bank. These notes highlight key lessons learned in seven DRM thematic clusters—structural measures; nonstructural measures; emergency response; reconstruction planning; hazard and risk information and decision making; the economics of disaster risk, risk management, and risk fi nancing; and recovery and relocation. Aimed at sharing Japanese cutting-edge knowledge with practitioners and decision makers, this book provides valuable guidance to other disaster-prone countries for mainstreaming DRM in their development policies and weathering their own natural disasters.