[PDF] Rising Waves Of Indecision eBook

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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,49 MB
Release : 2021
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ISBN : 9789464214796

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Floods have a devastating impact on society, costing thousands of lives and billions of dollars annually. Scientific projections indicate that flood risk is expected to increase in the future, driven by socio-economic growth and climate change. However, managing flood risk is a complex and costly process that requires decision-making with uncertain future conditions under the fear of making irreversible, inefficient choices. To support decision-makers, flood risk assessments provide estimates of the monetary impacts of floods or the economic efficiency of adaptation investments, although they often lack spatial or temporal dynamics. In addition, homeowners also make decisions at an individual level, such as implementing building-level adaptation measures or purchasing flood insurance. Homeowners’ decisions often deviate from rationality, as it is difficult for individuals to estimate the probability and associated damage of a potential flood. This PhD dissertation explores the extent to which we can incorporate the decision-making dynamics of governments, households, and flood insurance into a flood risk assessment at different spatial scales, and how this may improve flood risk management, applied to cases in the US.

Author : Jake Eberts
Publisher :
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 20,54 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Motion picture industry
ISBN : 9780571148899

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In 1983, Goldcrest Films was hailed as the saviour of the British film industry but within two years the company was virtually bankrupt. This book tells the story of Goldcrest Films and was one of The Financial Times Business Books of the Year.

Author : Louis Patler
Publisher : AMACOM
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814437249

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Like the ocean, the marketplace constantly changes and today's cresting?reward?becomes tomorrow's crashing?risk. Even the best surfers fall, but they learn from their wipeouts and paddle back out again, knowing that with big waves come big opportunities. Innovation expert Louis Patler explores why 8 out of 10 business ventures fail and offers lessons learned from elite athletes that apply to business.?Before you venture out, take some advice from unlikely experts: Big Wave surfers who ride waves the size of a five-story office building using only a 9-foot piece of styrofoam. Like successful entrepreneurs, they must rely on preparation, planning, patience, and passion--and they relish a challenge. Packed with stories of innovators, entrepreneurs, and legends, Make Your Own Waves reveals 10 Surfer's Rules that will guide entrepreneurs and innovators including: Learn to swim--the basics set the stage for everything Get wet--you can't succeed if you stick to the shore Always look "outside"--watch for what's coming or you may miss a better opportunity Commit, charge, shred--you have to go all out to be all in Never turn your back on the ocean--always stay in touch with the marketplace and the customer Stay stoked--desire drives success Discover the do’s and don’ts for innovators and entrepreneurs that will lead you to success.

Author : Kurt Weyland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1108483550

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Explains how bold efforts at profound progressive change provoked a powerful reactionary backlash that led to the imposition of brutal, regressive dictatorships.

Author : Émile Zola
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 26,45 MB
Release : 2008-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0191500437

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Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolise the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd which gathered at his State funeral chanted 'Germinal! Germinal!'. The central figure, Etienne Lantier, is an outsider who enters the community and eventually leads his fellow-miners in a strike protesting against pay-cuts - a strike which becomes a losing battle against starvation, repression, and sabotage. Yet despite all the violence and disillusion which rock the mining community to its foundations, Lantier retains his belief in the ultimate germination of a new society, leading to a better world. Germinal is a dramatic novel of working life and everyday relationships, but it is also a complex novel of ideas, given fresh vigour and power in this new translation. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Avi Raz
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 24,52 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300198508

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Drawing from newly declassified records in Israeli, American, British and United Nations archives, this penetrating book examines the critical two years following the June 1967 Six Day War, dispelling the myth of overall Arab intransigence and arriving at new and unexpected conclusions

Author : Niels Wilde
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 2024-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3111548791

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While the concept of place remains undertheorized in Kierkegaard research, this study argues that place is at the center of Kierkegaard’s thinking. The first part of the book shows that Kierkegaard’s notion of situatedness as being-placed in a socio-historical situation conditioned by a situation prior to situatedness points to a realist position and a flat ontology. Secondly, the book develops a detailed analysis of the ontological structure of the existential place (the place we ourselves are) and concrete places (the places where we are). Place opens a qualified space within bounds (the existence-sphere), an atmosphere of elemental attunement and attuned elementality. Finally, the book collects the dots from part one and two in a topological realist approach to Kierkegaard’s theology and three main definitions of God: God is love, God is that everything is possible, and God is the middle term. The book concludes that Kierkegaard’s existential topography reveals a realist position: where we are is never exhausted by being the place where we are.

Author : Suzanne Newman
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2024-08-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN :

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Christian poetry with an unusual twist. This anthology is designed to show how God is there for us in all sorts of ways throughout the challenging situations we face in life. The author writes from the heart and personal experience and, by sharing her poems, hopes to encourage others in their relationship with God when times are tough. This book also includes sixteen collaborative Christian poems with Michael Grgich (MAG), one poetic short story, and many reassuring Bible quotes.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781090322920

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One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts.