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Natural hazard research working paper volume 99
Pub. Date
[1998]
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As we enter the 21st century, we are facing new threats and risks, which may mean we will be dealing with new types of hazards and disasters. The disasters of the future may or may not be bigger or worse, but they are likely to be more complex and require more sophistication in response and recovery.
84) Emergency management in the 21st century: dealing with Al Qaeda, Tom Ridge, and Julie Gerberding
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 108
Pub. Date
[2004]
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For the emergency management community, the incredible events of September 11, 2001, and their many outcomes have led to changes so extensive they are hard to document. A gross indication of the impacts of these changes is evidenced simply by counting the important legislative and bureaucratic changes that have occurred since September 11, 2001. Along with new threats have come new resources, and those resources have new requirements connected to...
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 104
Pub. Date
[2000]
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Focuses on emergency management in the future and some of the key elements of change that appear to have significant implications.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 97
Pub. Date
1998.
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This case study is part of an investigation into the reassessment of state roles in disaster mitigation and management. This case study centers on the ultimate success of Senator McConnell's struggle to enact a state-wide building code which culminated with the passage 1997, four legislative sessions after it was first introduced.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 106
Pub. Date
[2000]
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The advent of the Internet has fundamentally altered the discussions of hazard policy between technical experts, public interest activists, and elected risk management policy makers, by providing with the immediacy, duration, geographical reach, and exponential expansion of communications among individuals.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 101
Pub. Date
[1998]
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This case study developed as part of an investigation into the reassessment of state roles in disaster mitigation and management. This case study concentrates why the Utah legislature waited 13 years to re-establish a seismic safety commission.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 107
Pub. Date
[2003]
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Focuses on major terrorist events in the past two decades to review how the essential emergency management (EM) infrastructure changed.
93) Life on Earth
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2018.
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Describes all the biological processes behind life on Earth.
94) Wind
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[2003]
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Illustrations and simple text explain what wind is, how it is used by plants, birds, and people, and how wind can become a storm.
95) Dump trucks
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What do dump trucks carry? How do they dump their loads? Who drives dump trucks? Learn all about these awesome trucks in this book. --Publisher's description.
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1997
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Despite Dietrich Bonhoeffer's earlier theological achievements and writings, it was his correspondence and notes from prison that electrified the postwar world six years after his death in 1945. The materials gathered and selected by his friend Eberhard Bethge in Letters and Papers from Prison not only brought Bonhoeffer to a wide and appreciative readership, especially in North America, they also introduced to a broad readership his novel and exciting...
100) Ethics
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1955
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Ethics is the culmination of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theological and personal odyssey and one of the most important works of Christian ethics of the last century. Using the acclaimed DBWE translation, adapted to a more accessible format, this new edition features an insightful introduction by Clifford Green and supplemental material from Victoria J. Barnett.
Written in the midst of the conspiracy to overthrow the Hitler regime, it is nonetheless chiefly...