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1. Integrated Community-Based Disaster Management Program in Taiwan: A Case Study of Shang-An Village

   Taiwan has long made efforts to increase community emergency response capability, due to its vulnerability to earthquakes, typhoons, landslides and...

   Liang-Chun Chen, Yi-Chung Liu, Kuei-Chi Chan in Natural Hazards

   Article 01 February 2006

2. Wetlands

   Denise J. Reed in Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

   Reference work entry 2005
   

3. Climate Hazards

   Jack Hobbs in Encyclopedia of World Climatology

   Reference work entry 2005
   

4. Flood Management

   Flooding in the Brahmaputra basin is an annually occurring problem. Thus far, only limited success has been achieved in mitigating flood disasters...

   A. K. Mitra in The Brahmaputra Basin Water Resources

   Chapter 2004
   

5. Lifesaving and Beach Safety

   B. Chris Brewster in Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

   Reference work entry 2005
   

6. C

   Ram K. Mohan, Andrew D. Short, ... Stephen J. Craig-Smith in Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

   Reference work entry 2005
   

7. H

   Luis J. Moreno, Roger H. Charlier, ... Diane Horn in Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

   Reference work entry 2005
   

8. B

   Miles O. Hayes, Eric Bird, ... J. D. Hansom in Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

   Reference work entry 2005
   

9. W

   William Ritchie, Katherine Pond, ... William Streever in Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

   Reference work entry 2005
   

10. L

    Nils-Axel Mörner, B. Chris Brewster, ... Richard J. Seymour in Encyclopedia of Coastal Science

    Reference work entry 2005
    

11. Man-made Matter

    in Sound Images of the Ocean in Research and Monitoring

    Chapter 2005
    

12. Navigation Development

    Transport is a personal activity, a social service, and an industry which constitutes one of the most important activities of man in every stage of...

    R. M. Das in The Brahmaputra Basin Water Resources

    Chapter 2004
    

13. Reducing the Effect of Natural Hazards on Urban Areas

    The paper is based on the United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (UN-IDNDR) pilot study project ‘Mitigation of the effect...

    L. Solway in Natural Disasters and Sustainable Development

    Chapter 2004
    

14. Flood Management in India

    In this paper, flood problems in India, regional variability of the problem, present status of the ongoing management measures, their effectiveness...

    P. K. Mohapatra, R. D. Singh in Flood Problem and Management in South Asia

    Chapter 2003
    

15. Economics of Flood Protection in India

    The peculiar rainfall pattern in Indiarenders the country highly vulnerable to floods. Forty million hectares of land, roughlyone-eighth of the...

    Sujata Gupta, Akram Javed, Divya Datt in Natural Hazards

    Article 01 January 2003

16. Economics of Flood Protection in India

    The peculiar rainfall pattern in India renders the country highly vulnerable to floods. Forty million hectares of land, roughly one-eighth of the...

    Sujata Gupta, Akram Javed, Divya Datt in Flood Problem and Management in South Asia

    Chapter 2003
    

17. Academic Culture, Intellectual Courage, and the Crisis of Politics in an Era of Permanent War

    Pierre Bourdieu, a French Sociologist, was deeply concerned about the role that academics might play as a progressive force in politics. He believed...

    Henry A. Giroux, Susan Searls Giroux in Take Back Higher Education

    Chapter 2004
    

18. Regional Cooperation in Flood Management in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Region: Bangladesh Perspective

    Bangladesh is known to be highly vulnerable to floods. Frequent floods have put enormous constraints on its development potential. Unfortunately, the...

    Q. K. Ahmad, Ahsan Uddin Ahmed in Flood Problem and Management in South Asia

    Chapter 2003
    

19. Predation on Cephalopods

    Predation occurs throughout nature. Predators feed in order to survive long enough to reproduce. Likewise, prey animals attempt to avoid being eaten...

    Royal H. Mapes, David T. Chaffin in Predator—Prey Interactions in the Fossil Record

    Chapter 2003
    

20. The Sand Bar

    The King Abdallah Canal (KAC), formerly called the East Ghor Canal, irrigated in 1967 about 114,000 dunums in the East Jordan Valley with water...

    Munther J. Haddadin in Diplomacy on the Jordan

    Chapter 2002