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Book Review: Constructing Risk

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Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011).

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

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Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). More than twenty authors are represented in this timely book, edited by Alessandra Jerolleman and William L. A special treat in the book, is found in Chapter 8, “The Underside of Epiphany: Wandering Wonderings.”

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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

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Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. All too often such literature and texts lack gender diversity and key perspectives from women leaders. for paperback., for hardback, $42.36 for etext USD.