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The Disaster Resiliency Challenge

Transforming Theory to Action

By: James Bohland,Jack Harrald,Deborah Brosnan

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The Disaster Resiliency Challenge

Transforming Theory to Action

By: James Bohland,Jack Harrald,Deborah Brosnan

Resilience as a concept has become embedded in public policy discourse within countries across the world in a wide range of contexts--planning, education, emergency management, and supply chains. The goal of this book is to assist future community leaders and professionals with the subsystem components and the actions that must be taken to insure community resilience, and to alert them to the potential pitfalls when adapting their community to the challenges that continually change. The development of trust among and between diverse members of communities and the political and economic leaders is essential if our views of how to build resilience are to change. The book is divided into five sections. The first section explores the challenges of transformational change, building community resilience with alternative frameworks, and resilience in time and space with lessons from ecology. Section II covers the building of hazard resilient communities through technology, microscale disaster and local resilience, the building of resilient cities by harnessing the power of urban analytics. and the failure to describe and communicate the possible future climate change scenarios. Section III examines challenges for urban theory when conceptualizing financial resilience, the role of social capital in community disaster resilience, the challenges of citizen engagement and resilience in the Dutch disaster management, and the rationalities of extraction and resilience of fossil-fueling vulnerability in an age of extreme energy. Section IV explores shifting from risks to consequences when building resilience to mega-hazards, resilience and small island nations, the sea level rise, demographics and rural resilience on Maryland’s Eastern shore, and the epicenter of community resilience in the California’s San Francisco Bay Area. Section V discusses observations and challenges on building community resilience in the twenty-first century. This highly informative and indispensable volume will be meaningful for future community leaders, citizens, stakeholders, government officials, emergency management, and crisis interveners.

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268

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Charles C Thomas Publisher

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0398092346

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9780398092344

The Business of Private Medical Practice

Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940

By: James A. Schafer

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The Business of Private Medical Practice

Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940

By: James A. Schafer

Unevenly distributed resources and rising costs have become enduring problems in the American health care system. Health care is more expensive in the United States than in other wealthy nations, and access varies significantly across space and social classes. James A. Schafer Jr. shows that these problems are not inevitable features of modern medicine, but instead reflect the informal organization of health care in a free market system in which profit and demand, rather than social welfare and public health needs, direct the distribution and cost of crucial resources. The Business of Private Medical Practice is a case study of how market forces influenced the office locations and career paths of doctors in one early twentieth-century city, Philadelphia, the birthplace of American medicine. Without financial incentives to locate in poor neighborhoods, Philadelphia doctors instead clustered in central business districts and wealthy suburbs. In order to differentiate their services in a competitive marketplace, they also began to limit their practices to particular specialties, thereby further restricting access to primary care. Such trends worsened with ongoing urbanization. Illustrated with numerous maps of the Philadelphia neighborhoods he studies, Schafer’s work helps underscore the role of economic self-interest in shaping the geography of private medical practice and the growth of medical specialization in the United States.

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277

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Rutgers University Press

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0813561760

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9780813561769

Geography and Geographers

Anglo-American human geography since 1945

By: Ron Johnston,James Sidaway

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Geography and Geographers

Anglo-American human geography since 1945

By: Ron Johnston,James Sidaway

Explores the relationship between human and physical geography. All chapters updated in the new edition to reflect new literature and changes in the discipline. Chapter One systematically considers representations of geographical thought. The closing chapter develops an explicit argument about what has made human geography distinctive. Draws on a wide reading of the geographical literature produced during a fifty-year period characterised by both growth in the number of academic geographers and substantial shifts in conceptions of the discipline's scientific rationale

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545

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Routledge

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1134065876

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9781134065875

The Mad Bishops

The Hunt for Earl Anglin James and His Assassin Brethren

By: James Day

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The Mad Bishops

The Hunt for Earl Anglin James and His Assassin Brethren

By: James Day

How did a peddler of phony degrees who claimed to be a world famous bishop build a network of contacts that led to the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK? Beyond that central question, what does this foray into the bizarre and esoteric say about our current state of religion and democracy? Through the life and world of Earl Anglin James, we explore the deep inner workings of religion and intelligence, revealing connections and relationships that were established long before Dallas, 1963, and have defined our destiny as a nation.

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289

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TrineDay

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1634244494

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9781634244497

Cures Vs. Profits: Successes In Translational Research

By: James Lyons-weiler

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Cures Vs. Profits: Successes In Translational Research

By: James Lyons-weiler

Did you ever wonder whether doctors want cures, or just treatments?Did you know ... This book reviews recent key, hard-won successes and findings from recent biomedical research. Written by one of the most ardent defenders of the public trust in science, it provides an accessible, detailed look at successes in translational biomedical and clinical research. The author provides an optimistic, forward-looking view for the possibility of change for the public good, cutting through the controversy and gets to very core of each topic. The public can be optimistic about the future of medicine, but only if they learn the facts of these advances, and learn what their doctors should be expected to know.Highly referenced, and filled with interviews from experts and people directly involved in the research behind the new facts in each chapter, this book is a rich source of information on advances in biomedicine that you will want to share with your family & friends.

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World Scientific

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9814730165

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9789814730167

Sensorimotor Control and Learning

An introduction to the behavioral neuroscience of action

By: James Tresilian

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Sensorimotor Control and Learning

An introduction to the behavioral neuroscience of action

By: James Tresilian

A comprehensive introduction for undergraduate students. Principals of Sensorimotor Control and Learning presents an integrated picture of sensorimotor behaviour. It provides integrated coverage of: brain and behaviour, perception and action, theory and experiment, performance (kinematics and kinetics of behaviour) and outcomes.

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896

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137005114

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9781137005113

Hold Your Tongue

Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only

By: James Crawford

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Hold Your Tongue

Bilingualism and the Politics of English Only

By: James Crawford

This controversial book about the politics of language is a passionate plea for the power of American diversity.

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348

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Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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020155044X

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9780201550443

The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795

By: James Boswell

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The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795

By: James Boswell

Writer, rake, wit, traveler, and man-about-town, Boswell went everywhere, knew everyone, and never missed an opportunity to enjoy himself. His journals are compulsively self-revealing.

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0434838985

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9780434838981

Book's by James Bohland

The Disaster Resiliency Challenge

The Disaster Resiliency Challenge

The Business of Private Medical Practice

The Business of Private Medical Practice

Geography and Geographers

Geography and Geographers

The Mad Bishops

The Mad Bishops

Cures Vs. Profits: Successes In Translational Research

Cures Vs. Profits: Successes In Translational Research

Sensorimotor Control and Learning

Sensorimotor Control and Learning

Hold Your Tongue

Hold Your Tongue

The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795

The Journals of James Boswell, 1762-1795

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