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  • RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES
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    RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES
    VALERIE BROWN / DAVID INGLE SMITH / ROB WISEMAN / JOHN HANDMER
    First published in 1995. Managing today’s rapidly changing environment inevitably involves managing conflicts between the demands of development and conservation; the needs of the present and of the future; and between different community interests, professional positions and political priorities. Risks and Opportunities provides both a guide to managing environmental change, a...

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  • ECOLOGY, UNCERTAINTY AND POLICY
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    ECOLOGY, UNCERTAINTY AND POLICY
    JOHN HANDMER
    A broad and comprehensive exploration of the role of the ecological sciences in sustainability for undergraduates.The urgent quest for more sustainable patterns of development has placed new and difficult demands on both scientists and policy makers as they seek to establish more informed and effective policy processes and management regimes in the the face of pervasive uncerta...

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  • HAZARD MANAGEMENT AND EMERGENCY PLANNING
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    HAZARD MANAGEMENT AND EMERGENCY PLANNING
    DENNIS PARKER / JOHN HANDMER
    This book assesses critically the British approach to hazard management and emergency planning. It identifies the principal legal, organizational and cultural impediments to more effective hazard management and emergency planning, postulates explanations for the shortcomings in the British approach and examines a number of promising avenues for improving current practice. It co...

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  • HANDBOOK OF DISASTER POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS
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    HANDBOOK OF DISASTER POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS
    JOHN HANDMER / STEPHEN DOVERS
    Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement ...

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  • THE HANDBOOK OF DISASTER AND EMERGENCY POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS
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    THE HANDBOOK OF DISASTER AND EMERGENCY POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS
    JOHN HANDMER / STEPHEN DOVERS
    Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement ...

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  • FLOOD HAZARD MANAGEMENT: BRITISH AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
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    FLOOD HAZARD MANAGEMENT: BRITISH AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
    JOHN W HANDMER
    In some important respects floodplain management and flood hazard research is different in Britain from that in other countries. This collection of papers from a conference provides some comparisons. It covers urban flooding, institutions and policy, land use policy, hazard response, and project appraisal and risk assessment. ...

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