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Renewable energy sources and climate change mitigation: special report of the Intergovernmental Panel on …

by United Nations Environment Programme, World Meteorological Organization, Edenhofer, Ottmar, Pichs Madruga, Ramón, Sokona, Y., Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change., Working Group III, Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung

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This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SRREN) assesses the potential role of renewable energy in the mitigation of climate change. It covers the six most important renewable energy sources - bioenergy, solar, geothermal, hydropower, ocean and wind en…

Handbook of climate change and agroecosystems: global and regional aspects and implications

by Hillel, Daniel, Rosenzweig, Cynthia, American Society of Agronomy

fromICP series on climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitig…

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Climate change is no longer merely projected to occur in the indeterminate future. It has already begun to be manifested in the weather regimes affecting agroecosystems, food production, and rural livelihoods in many regions around the world. It is a real and growing challenge t…

Hazard mitigation in emergency management

by Ryan, Jeffrey R., Islam, Tanveer

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Hazard Mitigation in Emergency Management introduces readers to mitigation, one of the four foundational phases of emergency management, and to the hazard mitigation planning process. Authors Islam and Ryan review the hazard mitigation framework in both private sector and govern…

Hazard mitigation in emergency management

by Ryan, Jeffrey R., Islam, Tanveer

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Hazard Mitigation in Emergency Management introduces readers to mitigation, one of the four foundational phases of emergency management, and to the hazard mitigation planning process. Authors Islam and Ryan review the hazard mitigation framework in both private sector and govern…

Applied drought modeling, prediction, and mitigation

by Şenaut, Zekâi

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Applied Drought Modelling, Prediction, and Mitigation provides a practical guide to new and recent methodologies for drought characterizations, change modeling, down-scaling, and future predictions. The modeling procedures covered by the book include recent advancements in regio…

Sustaining soil productivity in response to global climate change: science, policy, and ethics

by Siva Kumar, M. V. K., Sauer, Thomas J., Norman, John M.

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"Sustaning Soil Productivity in Response to Global Climate Change is a two-part text bringing together the latest research in soil science and climatology and the ethical, political and social issues surrounding the stewardship of this vital resource. Chapters include scientific…

This thesis assesses the mitigating impact of repentance upon the fixed punishments for brigandage (hiraba ), theft, and the accusation of fornication (qadhf ) under Islamic law, focusing on classical sources of Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir ), law (fiqh ), and legal theory (usul al…

Cetacean species face serious challenges worldwide due to the increasing noise pollution brought to their environment by human activities such as seismic exploration. Regulation of these activities is vaguely defined and uncoordinated. Visual observations and passive listening d…

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.15.4 standard presents a very useful technology for implementing low-cost, low-power, wireless sensor networks. Its main focus, which is to applications requiring simple wireless connectivity with relaxed throughou…

Disaster policy and its practice in the United States: a brief history and analysis

by Jackman, Andrea M., Beruvides, Mario G., Nestler, Gary S.

fromIndustrial and systems engineering collection

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Emergency management and the study of disasters is a relatively young industry, beginning in its current form only after the World Wars of the previous century. Yet with the ever-increasing complexity of society in the Digital Age, the management and recovery from disasters in r…

From 1959 – 2009, Texas has annually led the nation in the number of flood fatalities. On average the number of deaths in Texas was three times the amount of the second leading state (Sharif, Hossain, Jackson & Bin-Shafique, 2012). Quantitative studies have attempted to cons…

This interdisciplinary dissertation engages in sociolegal studies to analyze the ethical and legal obligations of the United States federal government with respect to its honoring of intergenerational climate justice. With that, this dissertation accomplishes three broad objecti…

This study investigates the causes of deaths and injuries in the August 17th, 1999 Kocaeli earthquake to provide recommendations for risk mitigation. An epidemiological survey of the causes of deaths and injuries was completed for 453 households with 1,861 members. A geo-spatial…