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  • Natural Hazard Mitigation Policy

    Implementation, Organizational Choice, and Contextual Dynamics

    by Daniel J. Alesch, Lucy A. Arendt, William J. Petak ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The negative consequences of natural hazard events are staggering and growing. Governments are acting to increase community resilience, reduce losses, and facilitate recovery, but these actions do not always yield anticipated consequences. This book is a compelling interdisciplinary analysis of California’s efforts to ensure that acute care hospitals survive earthquakes and continue to function in ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Long-Term Community Recovery from Natural Disasters

    by Lucy A. Arendt, Daniel J Alesch ...
    Today, governmental efforts at long-term community recovery from a natural disaster consist primarily of rebuilding the physical artifact of the community. This entails reestablishing vital community services and infrastructure and creating housing to replace that which has been lost. While restoring the built environment of a disaster area is essential, alone it is not sufficient to achieve ... Read more

    $309.99 CAD

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  • The Only Game in Town

    Central Banks, Instability, and Recovering from Another Collapse

    by Mohamed A. El-Erian ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A roadmap to what lies ahead and the decisions we must make now to stave off the next global economic and financial crisis, from one of the world’s most influential economic thinkers and the author of When Markets Collide • Updated, with a new chapter and author’s note“The one economic book you must read now . . . If you want to understand [our] bifurcated world and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Ostrich Paradox

    Why We Underprepare for Disasters

    by Robert Meyer, Howard Kunreuther ...
    "The Ostrich Paradox boldly addresses a key question of our time: Why are we humans so poor at dealing with disastrous risks, and what can we humans do about it? It is a must-read for everyone who cares about risk."—Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of Thinking, Fast and SlowWe fail to evacuate when advised. We rebuild in flood zones. We don't wear helmets. We fail ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • The Social Roots of Risk

    Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience

    by Kathleen Tierney ...
    Series series High Reliability and Crisis Management
    The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable.The Social Roots of Risk argues against the widespread notion that cataclysmic occurrences ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Resilience Dividend

    Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

    by Judith Rodin ...
    Building resilience -- the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively -- is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm, a civil disturbance, an economic blow.Through an astonishing range of stories, Judith Rodin shows how people, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • With Charity for All

    Why Charities Are Failing and a Better Way to Give

    by Ken Stern ...
    Vast and largely unexamined, the world of American charities accounts for fully 10 percent of economic activity in this country, yet operates with little accountability, no real barriers to entry, and a stunning lack of evidence of effectiveness. In With Charity for All, Ken Stern reveals a problem hidden in plain sight and prescribes a whole new way for Americans to make a difference.Each year, ... Read more

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  • The Hidden Cost of Money

    by Sebastian Bunney ...
    Everything is Downstream of MoneyDo you ever feel like you're treading water, struggling to keep up with the rising tide of expenses? From groceries to housing to transportation, your cost of living continues to climb while your wages struggle to keep up.It's a frustrating and often isolating feeling. But the truth is, not only are you not alone in this struggle, but you are not the problem. The ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Corporation 2020

    Transforming Business for Tomorrow's World

    by Pavan Sukhdev ...
    There is an emerging consensus that all is not well with today’s market-centric economic model. Although it has delivered wealth over the last half century and pulled millions out of poverty, it is recession-prone, leaves too many unemployed, creates ecological scarcities and environmental risks, and widens the gap between the rich and the poor. Around $1 trillion a year in perverse subsidies and ... Read more

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  • Slow Burn

    The Hidden Costs of a Warming World

    by R. Jisung Park ...
    How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun—from lower test scores to higher crime rates—and how we might tackle them todayIt’s hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. In Slow Burn, R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • An Economy of Well-Being

    Common-sense tools for building genuine wealth and happiness

    by Mark Anielski ...
    Help build a world based on flourishing well-being for both the human family and natureIn the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it's difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about creating a new world, using common-sense economics?In An Economy of Well-being, author Mark Anielski presents a practical ... Read more

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  • Future-Generation Government

    How to Legislate for the Long Term

    by Nicholas Chesterley ...
    In the decades preceding COVID-19 there were nine pandemics or near-pandemics, from SARS to Ebola. Despite this turbulent recent history, many governments were unprepared for the recent pandemic and remain ill-equipped for the next.Our impact on future generations has never been greater, and the challenges we face will increasingly play out over the long term. Climate change is accelerating, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD