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New Frontiers in Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Peace Science explores the uncharted land of conflicts, human security and peace. Bringing together a diverse, world-leading researchers, this 29th volume of Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development focuses on some of the most serious challenges to human security posed by intra-state conflict and terrorism, interstate wars, predatory globalisation, failed development, poverty and inequality, environmental problems and climate shocks, inefficient governance and man-made and natural disasters. In so doing, this book contributes to the crafting of well-grounded academic and policy responses to global problems that urgently require novel solutions. For its breadth and depth of research, this book is essential reading for researchers working in peace studies, conflict studies, sustainability studies and economics. It is also of keen interest to policymakers in all of these areas.

"This book defines the new paradigm of integrated sustainable water, energy, and solids management in future cities, and proves its implementation will reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net zero, provide better water quality of fresh and reclaimed water, and diminish the need for landfills. It advocates for the integration of municipal solid waste as a source of energy that recovers vital resources such as fertilizers. This paradigm is implemented through the conservation, recycling, and generation of blue and green energy, including solar and wind power, and the switch to hydrogen as an energy source through indirect gasification of municipal solid waste. Vladimir Novotny's 50 years of teaching and research culminates in this must-have reference that offers architects, engineers, and planners a methodology for building resilient cities of the future that can withstand natural and anthropogenic disasters"--

Chapter1.Implementing the Paris Agreement: Forging Ahead Despite Challenges -- Chapter2.Storm Resilience of Chinese Cities: Ranking and Analysis -- Chapter3.Scientific Assessments of Climate Change in the Post-Paris Era -- Chapter4.Climate Change Policies of the Trump Administration and China's Response -- Chapter5.China's Role in Global Climate Governance and Causal Analysis -- Chapter6.Flood Risk and Flood Management Policies in China -- Chapter7.Climate Resilient Cities: Water Security -- Chapter8.Energy Transition Driven by the Energy Internet -- Chapter9.Issues Concerning the Design of China's National Emissions Trading System -- Chapter10.Low-carbon Transport: Trends and Prospects -- Chapter11.Wind Power in China: Current State and Future Outlook -- Chapter12.Distributed Renewable Energy in China: Current State and Future Outlook -- Chapter13.Combating Climate Change, Desertification and Sandstorms: A Collaborative Approach -- Chapter14.Extreme Precipitation and Disasters: A Risk Analysis Based on Solar Radiation Management

"As the world faces the prospect of climate change, nuclear disasters, and water scarcity, it is clear that environmental degradation is an increasingly serious challenge with economic and social consequences. In this book, Detlef Jahn analyzes political processes in a macro-comparative study in order to estimate the role of politics in the field of environmental performance in 21 OECD countries. His model demonstrates various styles of politics used to combat environmental degradation. He finds that economic and environmental performance are still closely linked, and that moving towards a service society does not by itself solve the environmental challenge. The close relationship of these areas was made strikingly clear in the economic crisis of the new millennium. He argues that economic globalization fosters environmental deterioration, and undermines efforts in domestic politics and international coordination to improve the environmental record"--

"Over the past decade there have been extraordinary advances towards drought risk reduction with the development of new water-conserving technologies, and new tools for planning, vulnerability and impact assessment, mitigation, and policy. Drought and Water Crises: Integrating Science, Management, and Policy, Second Edition comprehensively captures this evolving progress as it discusses drought management in the light of present risks, global climate change and public policy actions. This new edition emphasizes the paradigm shift from managing disasters to managing risk, reflecting the global emphasis that has evolved in recent years, a new focus that shines light on preparedness strategies and the tools and methods that are essential in drought risk reduction. The book provides additional relevant case studies that integrate this new approach and discusses examples applied in both developed and developing countries."--Provided by publisher.

This volume of The Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations recounts the activities of Australia's military forces in response to overseas natural disasters. The military's involvement in overseas emergency management is focused primarily on the period immediately after disaster strikes: transporting relief supplies, providing medical assistance, restoring basic services and communications and other logistical support. Beginning with the 1917–18 influenza epidemic that ravaged the Pacific and culminating with the 2005 Pakistan earthquake, this book covers Australia's response to some of the most catastrophic natural events of the twentieth century. In their Time of Need is richly detailed, as Steven Bullard weaves together official government records and archival images with the personal narratives and photographs of those who served. This volume is an authoritative and compelling history of Australia's efforts to help their neighbours

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Introduction: Affect and Emotions in Disaster Reconstruction -- 1. Powerful Feelings: Emotions and Governmentality in Disaster Research -- 2. Hallarse: Defining Recovery in Affective Terms -- 3. Feelings of Inequity: Gender and the Postcolonial Modernity of Disaster Reconstruction -- 4. The Marero: Terror and Disgust in the Aftermath of Mitch -- 5. Ecologies of Affect and Affective Regimes: The Neoliberal Reconstruction of New Orleans -- 6. How to Care? The Contested Affects of Disaster Recovery in the Lower Ninth Ward -- 7. Criollos, Creoles, and the Mobile Taquerias: Latinophobia in Post- Katrina New Orleans -- 8. To Love a Small Town: The Political Ecology of Affect in the Middle Mississippi -- 9. Rebuilding It Better: The Ethical Challenges of Disaster Recovery -- 10. The Anthropology of Affect and Disasters: From Critique to Practice -- References -- Index

"This book is constructed around three essential questions: Why is population health so poor in developing countries? What is the extent of the problem? And what can be done about it? It provides a broad but detailed overview of global health and considers other aspects of global health that are rarely given attention, such as poverty, wars, humanitarian disasters, and governance. The text provides an intricate history of overseas aid and explores the varied determinants of population health, poverty, and malnutrition. Solutions are examined via primary health care strategies, poverty alleviation, developing world debt relief, and human rights interventions. New to this edition are chapter summaries; critical thinking questions for each chapter; additional recommended readings; a discussion of topical health issues in light of the new sustainable development goals; and updated references, statistics, and figures."--

Threats to international peace and security include the proliferation of weapons of mass destructions, rogue nations, and international terrorism. The United States must respond to these challenges to its national security and to world stability by embracing new military technologies such as drones, autonomous robots, and cyber weapons. These weapons can provide more precise, less destructive means to coerce opponents to stop WMD proliferation, clamp down on terrorism, or end humanitarian disasters. Efforts to constrain new military technologies are not only doomed, but dangerous. Most weapons in themselves are not good or evil; their morality turns on the motives and purposes for the war itself. These new weapons can send a strong message without cause death or severe personal injury, and as a result can make war less, rather than more, destructive

Good risk communication is crucial for raising awareness among citizens and business about the risks their countries face. However, many countries have seen their risk communication tools fail in the past, leading to persistently low levels of risk awareness, especially in the absence of recent disasters. This OECD report surveys current trends in risk communication policies and practices across OECD and partner countries. It seeks to understand why risk communication tools have failed and what OECD countries can do to improve the effectiveness of their risk communication policies. Based on an OECD-wide survey, the report evaluates the degree to which countries have used risk communication tools to not only increase risk awareness, but to inform stakeholders about potential preparedness and prevention measures they can take to boost their resilience to future risks.

Debates about emergency powers traditionally focus on whether law can or should constrain officials in emergencies. Emergencies in Public Law moves beyond this narrow lens, focusing instead on how law structures the response to emergencies and what kind of legal and political dynamics this relation gives rise to. Drawing on empirical studies from a variety of emergencies, institutional actors, and jurisdictional scales (terrorist threats, natural disasters, economic crises, and more), this book provides a framework for understanding emergencies as long-term processes rather than ad hoc events, and as opportunities for legal and institutional productivity rather than occasions for the suspension of law and the centralization of response powers. The analysis offered here will be of interest to academics and students of legal, political, and constitutional theory as well as to public lawyers and social scientists

Around the world, extreme weather events are becoming increasingly "the new normal" and are expected to increase in the 21st century as a result of climate change. Extreme weather events have devastating impacts on human lives and national economies. This book examines ways to protect people from hazards using early warning systems, and includes contributions from experts from four different continents representing 14 different universities, 8 government agencies and two UN agencies. Chapters detail critical components of early warning systems, ways to identify vulnerable communities, predict hazards and deliver information. Unique satellite images illustrate the transnational impact of disasters, while case studies provide detailed examples of warning systems. With contributors from the fields of economics, ethics, meteorology, geography and biology, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in disaster risk reduction or climate change

During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist-era famines, in which overambitious industrial programs endorsed by Stalin and Mao Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under prerevolutionary regimes. Focusing on famine as a political tool, Wemheuer systematically exposes how conflicts about food among peasants, urban populations, and the socialist state resulted in the starvation death of millions. A major contribution to Chinese and Soviet history, this provocative analysis examines the long-term effects of the great famines on the relationship between the state and its citizens and argues that the lessons governments learned from the catastrophes enabled them to overcome famine in their later decades of rule

pt. 1. Theory, culture, and society : the narratives of crime and justice -- pt. 2. The industries of crime and justice : systems of policing -- pt. 3. The industries of crime and justice: systems of law -- pt. 4. The industries of crime and justice : systems of corrections and punishment -- pt. 5. The criminal enterprise : types of commerce, consumerism, and conspicuous consumption -- pt. 6. Global technologies : from the surveillance of humans to the management of situations -- pt. 7. Media, crime, and culture : simulating identities, constructing realities -- pt. 8. Green criminology : environmental hazards, natural disasters, and ecological sustainability -- pt. 9. Political and state violence : struggles, conflicts, and transitions -- pt. 10. Public health criminology : global risks and transnational responsibilities -- pt. 11. The political economy of crime and justice : the trade in colonialism, nationalism, and globalism.

"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." And so we have. Time and again, mankind has faced down problems, but have often failed to take the hard-earned knowledge into the next battle. Doomed to Repeat is a collection of essays, edited by Bill Fawcett, that illuminates some of the problems we've faced repeatedly throughout history, including Islamic jihad, terrorism, military insurgencies, inflation and the devaluation of currency, financial disasters, ecological collapses, radical political minorities like the Nazis and Bolsheviks, and pandemics and epidemics like the Black Death. With more than 35 chapters of the Groundhog Days of world history, both infamous and obscure, Doomed to Repeat: The Lessons of History We've Failed to Learn is chock-full of trivia, history, and fascinating looks at the world's repeated mistakes.