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  • My Boys Can Swim!

    The Official Guy's Guide to Pregnancy

    par Ian Davis ...
    Finally—A Pregnancy Book That Won't Put Men to SleepMy Boys Can Swim! tells real men everything they really want to know about pregnancy, such as: How much is it going to cost? Why does your wife primp before seeing her doctor when she hasn't put a stitch of make-up on for you in months? And, most important, what's it going to do to your sex life?This rollicking, laugh-out-loud book is for ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Reducing Disaster Risks

    Progress and Challenges in the Caribbean Region

    Modifié par Ian Davis, Steve Bender, Fred Krimgold, Franklin McDonald ...
    Collections series Environmental Hazards Series
    Are we winning or losing the battle for safe environments? In 1984, leading disaster risk management professionals and researchers met in Jamaica for the Ocho Rios conference on Disaster Mitigation. In this collection, key experts reflect on the progress made in disaster risk reduction since that conference, with a particular emphasis on the Caribbean.Areas of focus include:trends in disaster risk ... En savoir plus

    $75.57 CAD

  • Disasters and the Small Dwelling

    Perspectives for the UN IDNDR

    par Yasemin Aysan ...
    This book contains the proceeding of the conferences on Disasters and the Small Dwelling, held at Oxford in September 1990. The 26 papers cover recent experiences of post-disaster shelter and housing provision, review what has been achieved, what needs disseminating and implementing, and assesses what needs further development.The volume thus defines an international agenda to achieve safer low ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD

  • Narrative Research in Practice

    Stories from the Field

    Modifié par Rachael Dwyer, Ian Davis, elke emerald ...
    Collections series Education (R0)
    This book directly addresses the multiplicity and complexity of narrative research by illustrating a variety of avenues to pursuing and publishing research that falls under the umbrella of narrative work. The chapters are drawn from a wide range of disciplines including education, literary studies, cultural studies, music and clinical studies. Each chapter considers a particular methodological ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

  • Disaster Risk Reduction for Economic Growth and Livelihood

    Investing in Resilience and Development

    Modifié par Ian Davis, Kae Yanagisawa, Kristalina Georgieva ...
    Collections series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    The prevalence of natural disasters in recent years has highlighted the importance of preparing adequately for disasters and dealing efficiently with their consequences.This book addresses how countries can enhance their resilience against natural disasters and move towards economic growth and sustainable development. Covering a wide range of issues, it shows how well thought-out measures can be ... En savoir plus

    $100.30 CAD

  • Stories of Men and Teaching

    A New Narrative Approach to Understanding Masculinity and Education

    par Ian Davis ...
    Collections series Education (R0)
    This book investigates the dynamic relationship between masculinity, fiction and teaching answering one central question. How are male teachers influenced by fictional narratives in the construction of masculinities within education? It achieves this in three major steps: by describing a methodological system of narrative analysis that is able to account for the influence of a fictional text ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Recovery from Disaster

    par Ian Davis, David Alexander ...
    Collections series Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
    Disasters can dominate newspaper headlines and fill our TV screens with relief appeals, but the complex long-term challenge of recovery—providing shelter, rebuilding safe dwellings, restoring livelihoods and shattered lives—generally fails to attract the attention of the public and most agencies. On average 650 disasters occur each year. They affect more than 200 million people and cause $166 ... En savoir plus

    $126.99 CAD

  • At Risk

    Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters

    par Piers Blaikie, Terry Cannon, Ian Davis, Ben Wisner ...
    The term 'natural disaster' is often used to refer to natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes or floods. However, the phrase 'natural disaster' suggests an uncritical acceptance of a deeply engrained ideological and cultural myth. At Risk questions this myth and argues that extreme natural events are not disasters until a vulnerable group of people is exposed.The updated new edition ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

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    This volume brings together, for the first time, a wide-ranging and detailed body of information identifying and assessing risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in urban centres in low- and middle-income countries. Framed by an overview of the main possibilities and constraints for adaptation, the contributors examine the implications of climate change for cities in Africa, Asia and ... En savoir plus

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  • The Peri-Urban Interface

    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

    Modifié par Duncan McGregor, David Simon, Donald Thompson ...
    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... En savoir plus

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  • Handbook of Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction

    Modifié par Ben Wisner, Ilan Kelman, JC Gaillard ...
    The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. It offers critical reviews and appraisals of current state of the art and future development of conceptual, theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical knowledge and available tools.Organized into five ... En savoir plus

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  • Enhancing Urban Safety and Security

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    Enhancing Urban Safety and Security addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities: crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters. It analyses worldwide trends with respect to each of these threats, paying particular attention to their underlying causes and impacts, as well as to the good policies and best practices that ... En savoir plus

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