Author: Arthur Giniaux
Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 0

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Author: Martine Rebetez
Publisher: Collection Savoir suisse
ISBN: 2880749220
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : fr
Pages : 146

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Des catastrophes en série inquiètent la population, inondations, glissements de terrain, avalanches, s'ajoutant à des hivers sans neige et aux glaciers en voie de disparition. Ce livre rassemble les faits qui, sur l'ensemble du globe ou dans le périmètre des Alpes, montrent que nous vivons réellement un changement de climat. La synthèse de l'auteur apporte les données les plus récentes sur ce phénomène planétaire qui, lié à l'accroissement de l'effet de serre, a conduit aux accords de Kyoto. Mais ce livre s'attache, avec une grande richesse d'observations sûres et frappantes, au cas de la Suisse, particulièrement exposée à ces mutations. L'auteur fait le lien entre la démonstration scientifique du mécanisme et les causes et conséquences du changement climatique - que ce soit pour la montagne et ses glaciers, pour la stabilité des sols, pour l'agriculture et les forêts ou encore pour les déficits d'enneigement qui touchent le tourisme. La Suisse se réchauffe et chacun en verra sa vie quotidienne transformée.

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Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9230010871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Author: Joyeeta Gupta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781895536294
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 98

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Author: Bruno Voituriez
Publisher: UNESCO
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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El Nino, caprice of the heavens, scapegoat for every calamity? The general public cannot really understand what is behind the El Nino phenomenon. The book offers a tour of the Earth's climate to understand one of its normal but extreme components.

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Publisher: vdf Hochschulverlag AG
ISBN: 9783728123282
Category : Climatology
Languages : fr
Pages : 140

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Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251312362
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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The 2018 FAO-OIE-WHO (Tripartite) zoonoses guide, “Taking A Multisectoral, One Health Approach: A Tripartite Guide to Addressing Zoonotic Diseases in Countries” (2018 TZG) is being jointly developed to provide member countries with practical guidance on OH approaches to build national mechanisms for multisectoral coordination, communication, and collaboration to address zoonotic disease threats at the animal-human-environment interface. The 2018 TZG updates and expands on the guidance in the one previous jointly-developed, zoonoses-specific guidance document: the 2008 Tripartite “Zoonotic Diseases: A Guide to Establishing Collaboration between Animal and Human Health Sectors at the Country Level”, developed in WHO South-East Asia Region and Western Pacific Region. The 2018 TZG supports building by countries of the resilience and capacity to address emerging and endemic zoonotic diseases such as avian influenza, rabies, Ebola, and Rift Valley fever, as well as food-borne diseases and antimicrobial resistance, and to minimize their impacts on health, livelihoods, and economies. It additionally supports country efforts to implement WHO International Health Regulations (2005) and OIE international standards, to address gaps identified through external and internal health system evaluations, and to achieve targets of the Sustainable Development Goals. The 2018 TZG provides relevant country ministries and agencies with lessons learned and good practices identified from country-level experiences in taking OH approaches for preparedness, prevention, detection and response to zoonotic disease threats, and provides guidance on multisectoral communication, coordination, and collaboration. It informs on regional and country-level OH activities and relevant unisectoral and multisectoral tools available for countries to use.

Author: Ira Helsloot
Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 0398086834
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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We live in turbulent times with continents and nations facing ever-heightening risks such as natural disasters, intense and protracted conflicts, terrorism, corporate crises, cyber threats to infrastructures and mega-events. We are witnessing the rise of mega-crises and a new class of adversity with many unknowns. The prospect of mega-crises presents professionals and students in the field of crisis management with four major tasks. First, they should engage in “deep thinking” about the causes of the increasing occurrence of mega-crises. Second, they should identify and work through the dominant trends which complicate contemporary crisis management. Third, they should upgrade institutional crisis management capacity. Fourth, they should improve societal resilience since no institutional complex can mitigate or manage these mega-crisis on its own. This book is divided into four primary parts, each of which looks at one facet of mega-crises. Part I focuses on the concept of a mega-crisis and mega-crisis management; Part II examines crisis management of mega-natural disasters; Part III evaluates crisis management of man-made mega-crises; and Part IV identifies mega-threats and vulnerabilities. Additional major topics include Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Gustav; the London Bombings; the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks of July 7, 2005; corporate meltdowns; the subprime crisis; the Olympic Games; electricity grids; global climate change; the Dutch Delta; risks to food security; and mega-crises and the Internet. This comprehensive text will provide practitioners and academics with the results of an across-the-board research effort in the prospects, nature, characteristics, and the effects of mega-crises.

Author: Nigel Thew
Publisher: Service et musée cantonal d'archéologie de Neuchâtel
ISBN:
Category : CD-ROMs
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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Author: Christian Pfister
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401592594
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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A multidecadal cooling is known to have occurred in Europe in the final decades of the sixteenth-century. It is still open to debate as to what might have caused the underlying shifts in atmospheric circulation and how these changes affected societies. This book is the fruit of interdisciplinary cooperation among 37 scientists including climatologists, hydrologists, glaciologists, dendroclimatologists, and economic and cultural historians. The known documentary climatic evidence from six European countries is compared to results of tree-ring studies. Seasonal temperature and precipitation are estimated from this data and monthly mean surface pressure patterns in the European area are reconstructed for outstanding anomalies. Results are compared to fluctuations of Alpine glaciers and to changes in the frequency of severe floods and coastal storms. Moreover, the impact of climate change on grain prices and wine production is assessed. Finally, it is convincingly argued that witches at that time were burnt as scapegoats for climatic change.