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Streszczenie: An earthquake shatters Haiti and a hurricane slices through Texas. We hear that nature runs rampant, seeking to destroy us through these 'natural disasters'. Science recounts a different story, however: disasters are not the consequence of natural causes; they are the consequence of human choices and decisions. we put ourselves in harm's way; we fail to take measures which we know would prevent disasters, no matter what the environment does. This can be both hard to accept, and hard to unravel. A complex of factors shape disasters. They arise from the political processes dictating where and what we build, and from social circumstances which create and perpetuate poverty and discrimination. They develop from the social preference to blame nature for the damage wrought, when in fact events such as earthquakes and storms are entirely commonplace environmental processes We feel the need to fight natural forces, to reclaim what we assume is ours, and to protect ourselves from what we perceive to be wrath from outside our communities. This attitude distracts us from the real causes of disasters: humanity's decisions, as societies and as individuals. It stops us accepting the real solutions to disasters: making better decisions. This book explores stories of some of our worst disasters to show how we can and should act to stop people dying when nature unleashes its energies. The disaster is not the tornado, the volcanic eruption, or climate change, but the deaths and injuries, the loss of irreplaceable property, and the lack and even denial of support to affected people, so that a short-term interruption becomes a long-term recovery nightmare. But we can combat this, as Kelman shows, describing inspiring examples of effective human action that limits damage, such as managing flooding in Toronto and villages in Bangladesh, or wildfire in Colorado. Throughout, his message is clear: there is no such thing as a natural disaster. The disaster lies in our inability to deal with the environment and with ourselves.

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Bezpieczeństwo : teoria i praktyka. numer 3/2013 / Krakowska Akademia im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego. - Kraków : Krakowska Akademia im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego, 2013. - 143, [2] strony : ilustracje, wykresy, tabele ; 24 cm.

(Czasopismo Krakowskiej Akademii im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego)

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Bezpieczeństwo prawne. Nauki o bezpieczeństwie Leki Komunikacja drogowa prognozowanie Logistyka bezpieczeństwa. Policja Sahel

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Czasopismo akademickie

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Bezpieczeństwo i wojskowość Nauka i badania

Bibliografia przy niektórych artykułach.

Zawiera: Bezpieczeństwo prawne obywateli w działalności Biur Porad Obywatelskich -- Metoda badań w naukach o bezpieczeństwie na przykładzie badania bezpieczeństwa pracy -- Geopolityczne uwarunkowania bezpieczeństwa w regionie Sahelu -- Leki a prowadzenie pojazdów -- Foresight w logistyce bezpieczeństwa - Leadership, the Moving Spirit. The Theory of Management in Policing -- Ostatnia przeszkoda w drodze Polski do NATO. Sprawa Józefa Oleksego i innych polityków lewicy.

Artykuły w językach polskim i angielskim. Streszczenia w języku polskim, rosyjskim i angielskim.

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