Author: Thomas Salumets
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Press
Keywords: interdependencies, human, elias, norbert
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2002-10
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0773522662
ISBN-13: 9780773522664

Norbert Elias (1897-1990), author of the modern classic The Civilizing Process, was one of the most fascinating scientists of the twentieth century. In Norbert Elias and Human Interdependencies leading scholars from Europe, the United States, and Canada introduce, evaluate, and apply Elias’s achievements and explore the interdependence of individuals in an increasingly global society. While the opposing paradigms of globalization and fragmentation compete in often bloody and destructive ways in the world today, this book convincingly reminds us of the importance of finding out more about

Author: Tyson Macaulay
Publisher: CRC Press
Keywords: operating, risks, interdependencies, vulnerabilities, parts, infrastructure, understanding, component, critical
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2008-08-27
List price: $85.95
ISBN-10: 1420068350
ISBN-13: 9781420068351

Critical Infrastructure (CI) is fundamental to the functioning of a modern economy, and consequently, maintaining CI security is paramount. However, despite all the security technology available for threats and risks to CI, this crucial area often generates more fear than rational discussion. Apprehension unfortunately prompts many involved in CI policy to default to old-fashioned intuition rather than depend on modern concrete risk assessment as the basis for vital security decisions. Going beyond definitions, Critical Infrastructure: Understanding Its Component Parts, Vulnerabilities, Op

Author: Reinder A. Feddes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: processes, international, hydrology, series, hydrological, interdependencies, time, scale, variability, space
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 1995-09-29
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0521495083
ISBN-13: 9780521495080

The atmospheric, hydrologic, and terrestrial components of the earth’s systems operate on different time and space scales. Resolving these scaling incongruities as well as understanding and modeling the complex interaction of land surface processes at the different scales represents a major challenge for hydrologists, ecologists and meteorologists alike. This book presents the contributions of hydrologists, meteorologists, and ecologists to the first IHP/IAHS George Kovacs Colloqium on global hydrology and climate change. It deals with time and space scale variations with reference to se