Author: Sammie D. GuyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Laboratory Studies of Foundation and Embankment Materials for Final Design, Contra Loma Dam, Delta Division, Central Valley Project, California
Author: Sammie D. GuyNon-GPO Imprints Received in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Non-GPO Imprints Received in the Library of Congress, July 1967 Through December 1969
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
California Highways and Public Works
Author: The Loma Prieta, California, Earthquake of October 17, 1989, Highway Systems
Author: Mark YashinskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bridges
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Disaster Resilience
Author: National AcademiesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309261503
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financial disasters in addition to natural hazards can all lead to large-scale consequences for the nation and its communities. Communities and the nation thus face difficult fiscal, social, cultural, and environmental choices about the best ways to ensure basic security and quality of life against hazards, deliberate attacks, and disasters. Beyond the unquantifiable costs of injury and loss of life from disasters, statistics for 2011 alone indicate economic damages from natural disasters in the United States exceeded $55 billion, with 14 events costing more than a billion dollars in damages each. One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience-the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative addresses the broad issue of increasing the nation's resilience to disasters. This book defines "national resilience", describes the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters, and frames the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States. It also provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience and outlines additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters. Additionally, the book's authoring committee makes recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States. Enhanced resilience allows better anticipation of disasters and better planning to reduce disaster losses-rather than waiting for an event to occur and paying for it afterward. Disaster Resilience confronts the topic of how to increase the nation's resilience to disasters through a vision of the characteristics of a resilient nation in the year 2030. Increasing disaster resilience is an imperative that requires the collective will of the nation and its communities. Although disasters will continue to occur, actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and economic burdens that disasters can cause.
The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina
Author: Publisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"The objective of this report is to identify and establish a roadmap on how to do that, and lay the groundwork for transforming how this Nation- from every level of government to the private sector to individual citizens and communities - pursues a real and lasting vision of preparedness. To get there will require significant change to the status quo, to include adjustments to policy, structure, and mindset"--P. 2.
Environmental Engineering Dictionary and Directory
Author: Thomas M. PankratzPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1420032534
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Like most technical disciplines, environmental science and engineering is becoming increasingly specialized. As industry professionals focus on specific environmental subjects they become less familiar with environmental problems and solutions outside their area of expertise. This situation is compounded by the fact that many environmental science
The Indigenous World 2005
Author: Diana VindingPublisher: IWGIA
ISBN: 8791563054
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
"The Indigenous World 2005 gives an overview of crucial developments in 2004 that have impacted on the indigenous peoples of the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: R. C. Snively