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• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 47,9 Mb
• Release Date : 28 May 2024

Author Thomas Fisher introduces the idea of fracture-critical design and provides many solutions for how we can design to avoid major disasters.

• Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
• File Size : 42,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 May 2016

Envisioning what we need, when it doesn’t yet exist: this, Thomas Fisher tells us, is what design does. And if what we need now is a better world—functioning

• Publisher : National Academies Press
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• Release Date : 18 May 1999

Disasters by Design provides an alternative and sustainable way to view, study, and manage hazards in the United States that would result in disaster-resilient communities, higher environmental quality, inter- and

• Publisher : Rosenberg & Sellier
• File Size : 23,5 Mb
• Release Date : 30 August 2017

Unlike the many magazines that revolve around the architectural world, Ardeth concerns neither with outcomes (architecture) nor with the authors (architects). Ardeth concerns instead with their operational work, i.e.

• Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
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• Release Date : 28 May 1984

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 55,9 Mb
• Release Date : 24 April 2015

Altruism by Design: How to Effect Social Change as an Architect is meant to prepare the individual designer – whether a student or practicing professional – for a career dedicated to serving

• Publisher : National Academies Press
• File Size : 53,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 1991

Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 35,9 Mb
• Release Date : 10 November 2016

Resilience is increasingly discussed as a key concept across many fields of international policymaking from sustainable development and climate change, insecurity, conflict and terrorism to urban and rural planning, international

• Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
• File Size : 32,6 Mb
• Release Date : 22 April 2013

Designing to Heal explores what happens to communities that have suffered disasters, either natural or man-made, and what planners and urban designers can do to give the affected communities the

• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• File Size : 50,5 Mb
• Release Date : 14 March 2012

Approaches to Managing Disaster - Assessing Hazards, Emergencies and Disaster Impacts demonstrates the array of information that is critical for improving disaster management. The book reflects major management components of