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The future of risk management

Howard Kunreuther, Author ; Robert J. Meyer, Author ; Erwann Michel-Kerjan, Author | [S.l.] : University of Pennsylvania Press | Critical studies in risk and disaster | 2019

Whether man-made or naturally occurring, large-scale disasters can cause fatalities and injuries, devastate property and communities, savage the environment, impose significant financial burdens on individuals and firms, and test political leade[...]

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An introduction to applying satellite remote sensing to disaster management

Kazuya Kaku, Author | Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing | 2019

This study on the application of satellite remote sensing in disaster management is unique in the sense that it is based on 13 years of empirical study, takes human factors (users) into account. It provides an overview of satellite remote sensin[...]

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Socio-economic benefits of space utilization

Adam Keith, Project Consultant ; Euroconsult, Author | [S.l.] : Canadian Space Agency | 2019

'The primary objective of the study "Socioeconomic Benefits of Space Utilization" is to quantify and qualify the socio-economic value of space and related terrestrial activities to Canadians across the major application domains of imagery (EO), [...]

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Global Aerospace Monitoring and Disaster Management

Valery Alexandrovich Menshikov, Author ; Anatoly N. Perminov, Author ; Yuri M. Urlichich, Author | New York, NY : Springer | 2011

The book is devoted to the prospects of using aerospace monitoring potential for new approach to disaster management matter: early warning about cataclasmic natural events and man-made catastrophes. It is intended to introduce IGMASS concept to [...]

Remote sensing and GIS technologies for monitoring and prediction of disasters

Shailesh Nayak, Editor ; Siyka Zlatanova, Editor | New York, NY : Springer | Environmental science and engineering. Subseries: Environmental science | 2008

The book discusses the wider utilisation of remote sensing in disaster management which requires research and developments in numerous aspects: data access/delivery to the users, information extraction and analysis, management of data and their [...]

Risk wise

Sean Nicklin | [S.l.] : Tudor Rose | 2008

How should the world respond to natural disasters?

Rebecca O'Connor, Editor | [S.l.] : Greenhaven Press | At issue | 2006

SEADS : South East Disaster Management : Team Project report

Illkirch-Graffenstaden (France) : International Space University | 1999

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