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The JSP Files (Part 3) - Black Light and White Rabbits

The JSP Files (Part 3) - Black Light and White Rabbits

... 3): Black Light And White Rabbits Doing More With Loops 4 And the output is: The string black light starts with bl The string white rabbit ends with it The JSP Files (part 3): Black Light And White ... toUpperCase() and toLowerCase() methods come in handy to alter the case of a string. // define variable String someString = "don't SCREam, help is oN the WAy!"; // uppercase − returns ... another one (which keeps decreasing), it is advisable to check the divisor and use the "break" statement to exit the loop as soon as it becomes equal to zero. As you've already seen,...

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Managing people working as individuals and in groups

Managing people working as individuals and in groups

... 8 Staff selection case study 2 The next stage is to try and find peop le from within the company with the necessary skills. However, the company has expanded significantly and has few staff available. ... discussed by the group as a whole and tasks are allocated according to ability and experience.  This approach is successful for groups where all members are experienced and competent. âIan Sommerville ... self- oriented and interaction oriented. She felt that she was primarily a self-oriented type as she felt that this project was a way in which she would be noticed by senior management and promoted....

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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.1

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.1

... climate change and its attributed environmental and socio-economic consequences over past decades, particularly over the last several years, has led to a growing body of literature and increasing concern ... inflicted by disaster agents would increase dra- matically given the proportionate increase of the vulner- ability of communities and industrial assets driven by accelerated urbanization and economic ... more binding and comprehensive regulation of both greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation measures, like that in the United Kingdom ● Matching climate policy with that for disasters and introducing...

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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.2

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.2

... the increasing intensity and fre- quency of natural disasters and extreme weather events (Srinivas and Nakagawa, 2008; Smith et al., 2009). The rate of increase of disasters as well as the numbers ... post-disaster response can actually increase vulnerabilities in the long term (Anderson and Woodrow, 1998; Schipper and Pelling, 2006). Nonetheless, as the emphasis continues to shift from disaster ... renewal and transformation; and (3) and understanding of change and uncertainty as inherent in social-ecological systems. This statement strongly reflects the convergent aspects of CCA and DRR....

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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.3

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.3

... Geneva, Switzerland. ISDR, 2009. Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate. United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. Janssen, M. A. and Anderies, J. ... scholars, and increase collaboration between the young and the seasoned within academic institutions, development and relief organiz- ations and government. We see this path, embedded in adaptive and ... Community-based disaster prepa- redness and climate adaptation: local capacity- building in the Philippines. Disasters, 30(1). 81–101. Anderson, M. B. and Woodrow, P. J., 1998. Rising from the Ashes....

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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.4

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.4

... discussion). Specifically, if one looks at the increasing activity in the basin the increase has occurred in the east- ernmost part of the basin, far from land. The activity in areas where landfall takes place shows very ... of landfall based on first predicting the overall basin activity. Second, changes observed in the overall basin activity are not spatially uniform; increasing activity has occurred far from land. ... skill of existing seasonal predictions of basin activity is modest at best (e.g. Owens and Landsea, 2003), efforts to predict landfall rates on longer timescales based on NATL basin activity are...

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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.5

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.5

... much tighter and also broader target. The 2050 reduction target was increased from 60 per cent to at least 80 per cent and the scope was extended to cover not only CO 2 but the full basket of Kyoto ... goal and finally setting the UK’s contribution to the global trajectory. The process was strongly evidence-based and made extensive use of model results, but it was not an integrated, model-based ... increased by 4 per cent per year since 2005, leading to a 12.5 per cent increase in the normalized data from the 2005 baseline. 2006 had no hurricane landfalls, and thus no damage. 2007 had one landfall,...

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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.1

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.1

... of the increased damage due to natural disas- ters around the globe can be explained by socio- economic developments such as an increased population and concentration of wealth in areas that are ... settle- ments at coastal locations where hurricanes often make landfall, such as Florida (Pielke et al., 2008; Schmidt et al., 2009). In the future, urbanization in hazard-prone areas such as coastal agglomera- tions ... in 2009 killed over 200 people and damaged large pieces of land with devastating effects on wildlife. The sharp increase in tempo and severity of the recent disasters made some leading academics suggest...

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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.2

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.2

... disaster aimed at creating con- ditions within the human system that enhance this system’s resistance to disasters and its capacity to respond to, and cushion impacts of, a disaster (Handmer and ... losses during and after a disaster, and emphasizes inge- nuity and resourcefulness applied. In the context of climate change Timmerman (1981) defines resilience as the capacity to absorb and recover from ... safety standards and protec- tion investments, as has been done in the Nether- lands (van Dantzig, 1956; Jonkman et al., 2004). A drawback of hazard prevention with engineering infrastructure...

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Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.3

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.3

... Meetings of the Regional Science Association International. Philadelphia, PA. Rose, A., 2004a. Defining and measuring economic resi- lience to disasters. Disaster Prevention and Manage- ment, 13(4). 307–314. Rose, ... Earthscan, London. Slovic,P.,Finucane,M.L.,Peters,E.andMacGregor,D.G., 2004. Risk as analysis and risk as feelings: some thoughts about affect, reason, risk, and rationality. Risk Analysis, 24(2). 311 ... Oliveira, 2008); pandemics (Buus and Olsson, 2006; Shih et al., 2008; Ungar, 2008) and climate change (McComas and Shanahan, 1999; Weingart et al., 2000; Berglez, 2008; Olsson and Paglia, 2008). This...

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