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  • Risk, Disaster and Crisis Reduction

    Mobilizing, Collecting and Sharing Information

    by Valerie November, Yvan Leanza ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In the field of risks and crises, both the access to relevant information and its circulation are seen as crucial factors. Based on a new integrated theoretical model focusing on the stakeholder, the book proposes analysis of information reformulation and circulation in risk environments and crisis situations.Simply circulating the information does not mean that it will be picked up by those who ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

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  • Working Together

    Collective Action, the Commons, and Multiple Methods in Practice

    by Elinor Ostrom, Marco A. Janssen, Amy Poteete ...
    Advances in the social sciences have emerged through a variety of research methods: field-based research, laboratory and field experiments, and agent-based models. However, which research method or approach is best suited to a particular inquiry is frequently debated and discussed. Working Together examines how different methods have promoted various theoretical developments related to collective ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

  • Why Society is a Complex Matter

    Meeting Twenty-first Century Challenges with a New Kind of Science

    by Philip Ball ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Society is complicated. But this book argues that this does not place it beyond the reach of a science that can help to explain and perhaps even to predict social behaviour. As a system made up of many interacting agents – people, groups, institutions and governments, as well as physical and technological structures such as roads and computer networks – society can be regarded as a complex system. ... Read more

    $32.09 CAD

  • Disaster Management and Private Sectors

    Challenges and Potentials

    Edited by Takako Izumi, Rajib Shaw ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book draws upon case studies and practices of different types of DRR involvement by the private sector from all over the world. The book comprises two parts, Part I: Overview and Regional Cases; and Part II: Country Cases. The regional cases include those from Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central America, and the country cases include ones from India, Japan, the United States, Vietnam, Thailand, ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Disaster Forensics

    Understanding Root Cause and Complex Causality

    Edited by Anthony J. Masys ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book aims to uncover the root causes of natural and man-made disasters by going beyond the typical reports and case studies conducted post-disaster. It opens the black box of disasters by presenting ‘forensic analysis approaches’ to disasters, thereby revealing the complex causality that characterizes them and explaining how and why hazards do, or do not, become disasters. This yields ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Adaptation to Coastal Storms in Atlantic Canada

    by Liette Vasseur, Mary J. Thornbush, Steve Plante ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This brief is based on an analysis that was performed on the 2010 winter storms that caused considerable damage to coastal communities in Atlantic Canada. The hazards that occurred were associated with storm surge,high waves, coastal erosion, and flooding. The analysis covered a large multisite longitudinal project, where a participatory action research (PAR) approach was used to understand how ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Improving Societal Resilience to Disasters

    A Case Study of London’s Transportation System

    by Funda Atun ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book documents the outcomes of a study designed to explore ways of increasing resilience in a complex city system against disasters by focusing on the transportation system in London. A survey was undertaken comprising interviews with upper level decision makers as well as questionnaires to personnel in the field and the general public. The results of this survey are presented, together with ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Digital Methods for Social Science

    An Interdisciplinary Guide to Research Innovation

    Edited by Steven Roberts, Helene Snee, Christine Hine, Yvette Morey, Hayley Watson ...
    This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods. It explores the relationship of such methods to 'mainstream' social science; interdisciplinarity; innovations in digital research tools; the opportunities (and challenges) of digital methods in researching social life; and digital research ethics. ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Civil Society Organization and Disaster Risk Reduction

    The Asian Dilemma

    Edited by Rajib Shaw, Takako Izumi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Civil society organizations (CSOs) have played important roles over the years in the disaster field. Starting from the traditional approach of response and relief, the emphasis has gradually shifted to disaster risk reduction. From international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to national and local NGOs, all stakeholders have recognized the significance of and need for community-based risk ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modelling

    by Suzanne Jak ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book explains how to employ MASEM, the combination of meta-analysis (MA) and structural equation modelling (SEM). It shows how by using MASEM, a single model can be tested to explain the relationships between a set of variables in several studies.This book gives an introduction to MASEM, with a focus on the state of the art approach: the two stage approach of Cheung and Cheung & Chan. Both, ... Read more

    $89.99 CAD

  • Statistical Methods for the Evaluation of University Systems

    Edited by Massimo Attanasio, Vincenza Capursi ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents a collection of statistical methods and procedures to assess data coming from educational systems. The topics examined include: statistical methods for constructing composite indicators, applied measurements, assessment of educational systems, measurement of the performance of the students at Italian universities, and statistical modeling for questionnaire data. Other issues are ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Calculating the Social

    Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing

    Edited by V. Higgins, W. Larner ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in practice, and the objects, subjects and forms of identity to which this gives rise. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD