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Book Synopsis Road to Disaster by : Brian VanDeMark
Download or read book Road to Disaster written by Brian VanDeMark and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and painful decisions that shaped this history. The book will stand for the foreseeable future as the best study of the tragic mistakes that led to so much suffering."—Robert Dallek Many books have been written on the tragic decisions regarding Vietnam made by the young stars of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Yet despite millions of words of analysis and reflection, no historian has been able to explain why such decent, brilliant, and previously successful men stumbled so badly. That changes with Road to Disaster. Historian Brian VanDeMark draws upon decades of archival research, his own interviews with many of those involved, and a wealth of previously unheard recordings by Robert McNamara and Clark Clifford, who served as Defense Secretaries for Kennedy and Johnson. Yet beyond that, Road to Disaster is also the first history of the war to look at the cataclysmic decisions of those in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations through the prism of recent research in cognitive science, psychology, and organizational theory to explain why the "Best and the Brightest" became trapped in situations that suffocated creative thinking and willingness to dissent, why they found change so hard, and why they were so blind to their own errors. An epic history of America’s march to quagmire, Road to Disaster is a landmark in scholarship and a book of immense importance.
Book Synopsis China's Road to Disaster by : Frederick C. Teiwes
Download or read book China's Road to Disaster written by Frederick C. Teiwes and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1998-12-14 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text analyzes the dramatic shifts in Chinese Communist Party economic policy during the mid to late 1950s which eventually resulted in 30 to 45 million deaths through starvation as a result of the failed policies of the Great Leap Forward. Teiwes examines both the substance and the process of economic policy-making in that period, explaining how the rational policies of opposing rash advance in 1956-57 gave way to the fanciful policies of the Great Leap, and assessing responsibility for the failure to adjust adequately those policies even as signs of disaster began to reach higher level decision makers. In telling this story, Teiwes focuses on key participants in the process throughout both "rational" and "utopian" phases - Mao, other top leaders, central economic bureaucracies and local party leaders. The analysis rejects both of the existing influential explanations in the field, the long dominant power politics approach focusing on alleged clashes within the top leadership, and David Bachman's recent institutional interpretation of the origins of the Great Leap. Instead, this study presents a detailed picture of an exceptionally Mao-dominated process, where no other actor challenged his position, where the boldest step any actor took was to try and influence his preferences, and where the system in effect became paralyzed while Mao kept changing signals as disaster unfolded.
Book Synopsis Disaster At The Colorado by : Charles Baley
Download or read book Disaster At The Colorado written by Charles Baley and published by . This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Army representatives in New Mexico were more enthusiastic about the road's readiness."
Book Synopsis The Broken Road by : Keifer Publishing LLC
Download or read book The Broken Road written by Keifer Publishing LLC and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road to Disaster written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Simultaneous Planning for Disaster Road Clearance and Distribution of Relief Goods by : Denis Olschok
Download or read book Simultaneous Planning for Disaster Road Clearance and Distribution of Relief Goods written by Denis Olschok and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis focuses on disaster management. More specifically, the simultaneous planning of the distribution of disaster relief goods and the clearance of blocked roads immediately after the occurrence of a natural disaster such as an earthquake, a flood or a hurricane is investigated.
Book Synopsis Glance at the Silk Road Disaster Risk by : Peng Cui
Download or read book Glance at the Silk Road Disaster Risk written by Peng Cui and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-29 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book vividly shows the fostering environment, activity characteristics, distribution pattern, economic losses, casualties, disaster risks and management of earthquakes, mass movement, drought, floods, and marine disasters in the Silk Road region. It develops a multi-scale and multi-disaster risk assessment method to better assess and understand the Silk Road disaster risk. A multi-level collaborative risk management model has been proposed for transboundary disasters, and it also shares case studies on major disaster risk management. The book makes a major step forward to increase the understanding of the disaster risk of the Silk Road region. It presents a holistic understanding of the natural hazards and their induced disaster risks and is a valuable read for scholars, stakeholders and practitioners in the DRR community.
Book Synopsis Disaster Road Program. Hearing ... 88-2 ... July 8, 1964 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Download or read book Disaster Road Program. Hearing ... 88-2 ... July 8, 1964 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis California Disaster Relief Act of 1969, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads ... 91-1, on S. 993, April 1, 3, 1969, Serial No. 91-7 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Download or read book California Disaster Relief Act of 1969, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Roads ... 91-1, on S. 993, April 1, 3, 1969, Serial No. 91-7 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Northwest Disaster Relief Program, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Roads, 89th Congress, 1st Session, on S. 1638 and S. 327, April 1, 1965 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Download or read book Northwest Disaster Relief Program, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Public Roads, 89th Congress, 1st Session, on S. 1638 and S. 327, April 1, 1965 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Frontier Research: Road and Traffic Engineering by : Teik-Hua Law
Download or read book Frontier Research: Road and Traffic Engineering written by Teik-Hua Law and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains selected papers resulting from the 2020 International Conference on Road and Traffic Engineering (CRTE 2020) covering Road Engineering and Traffic Engineering, aiming to provide an academic and technical communication platform for scholars and engineers engaged in scientific research and engineering practice in the field of Road Engineering and Materials, Traffic Engineering and Management and Transportation Engineering. By sharing the research status of scientific research achievements and cutting-edge technologies, it helps scholars and engineers all over the world to comprehend the academic development trends and broaden research ideas. So as to strengthen international academic research, academic topics exchange and discussion, and promote the industrialization cooperation of academic achievements.
Book Synopsis Progress of Geo-Disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia by : Fawu Wang
Download or read book Progress of Geo-Disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia written by Fawu Wang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes the recent 10-year achievement of geo-disaster mitigation by leading Asian scientists from Japan, China, Indonesia, Korea, Iran and Far East of Russia. Case studies on recent occurred geo-disasters in Asian region have been presented. The forming mechanics of hazards such as earthquake and landslide are deeply discussed, and the disaster mitigation technology for building and pipeline safety, landslide hazard assessment and risk management are introduced.
Book Synopsis Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk by : Željko Arbanas
Download or read book Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk written by Željko Arbanas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a part of ICL new book series “ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction” founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the following parts: • Impact of Large Ground Deformations near Seismic Faults on Critically Important Civil Infrastructures• Recent Progress in the Landslide Initiating Science• Earth Observation and Machine Learning in Landslide Science• General Landslide Studies Professor Željko Arbanas is the Vice President of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor of Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia. He is the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides. Professor Peter Bobrowsky is the President of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Senior Scientist of Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. Professor Kazuo Konagai is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Principal Researcher at the ICL Headquarters. He serves as the Secretary-General of the Fifth World Landslide Forum. Professor Kyoji Sassa is the Founding President and the Secretary-General of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides since its foundation in 2004. Professor Kaoru Takara is the Executive Director of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor and Dean of Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies (GSAIS) in Human Survivability (Shishu-Kan), Kyoto University.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :138 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (6 download)
Book Synopsis California Disaster Relief Act of 1969 by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads
Download or read book California Disaster Relief Act of 1969 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 91-7. Considers S. 993, to provide Federal aid to California for reconstruction of highways and personal property destroyed or damaged by floods and landslides.
Book Synopsis The Integrated Disaster Risk Management Fund by : Asian Development Bank
Download or read book The Integrated Disaster Risk Management Fund written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Government of Canada and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) established the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRM) Fund in February 2013. The Fund was created to advance proactive integrated disaster risk management measures on a regional basis within ADB’s developing member countries in Southeast Asia, specifically, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. During its operation, the IDRM Fund funded 19 technical assistance projects with both a gender-focused approach to IDRM and that reflect regional solutions that produce cross-border disaster management. This publication discusses the lessons learned from and achievements of the IDRM Fund.
Book Synopsis Geotechnical Engineering For Disaster Mitigation And Rehabilitation 2011 - Proceedings Of The 3rd Int'l Conf Combined With The 5th Int'l Conf On Geotechnical And Highway Engineering - Practical Applications, Challenges And Opportunities (With Cd-rom) by : S P R Wardani
Download or read book Geotechnical Engineering For Disaster Mitigation And Rehabilitation 2011 - Proceedings Of The 3rd Int'l Conf Combined With The 5th Int'l Conf On Geotechnical And Highway Engineering - Practical Applications, Challenges And Opportunities (With Cd-rom) written by S P R Wardani and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings contains 89 papers from 25 countries and regions, including 14 keynote lectures and 17 invited lectures, presented at the Third International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation (3ICGEDMAR 2011) together with the Fifth International Conference on Geotechnical & Highway Engineering (5ICGHE), which was held in Semarang, Indonesia, from 18 to 20 May 2011. This is the third conference in the GEDMAR conference series. The first was held in Singapore from 12 to 13 December 2005 and the second in Nanjing, China, from 30 May to 2 June 2008.The proceedings is divided into three sections: keynote papers, invited papers and conference papers under which there are six sub-sections: Case Studies on Recent Disasters; Soil Behaviours and Mechanisms for Hazard Analysis; Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation Techniques; Risk Analysis and Geohazard Assessment; Innovation Foundations for Rail, Highway, and Embankments; and Slope Failures and Remedial Measures.The conference is held under the auspices of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) Technical Committee TC-303: Coastal and River Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation, TC-203: Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and Associated Problems, TC-302: Forensic Geotechnical Engineering, TC-304: Engineering Practice of Risk Assessment and Management, TC-213: Geotechnics of Soil Erosion, TC-202: Transportation Geotechnics, TC-211: Ground Improvement, Southeast Asian Geotechnical Society (SEAGS), Association of Geotechnical Societies in Southeast Asia (AGSSEA), and Road Engineering Association of Asia & Australasia (REAAA).
Book Synopsis Disaster Management in India by : Rajendra K. Pandey
Download or read book Disaster Management in India written by Rajendra K. Pandey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores policies, structures, and processes of disaster management in India examining key theoretical foundations of disaster management with practical illustrations and case studies. The book offers a comprehensive understanding of disaster management policies and practices in India and focuses on public policy approaches in addressing critical issues and challenges facing the machinery and processes of disaster management in India. The creative approach to deal with different aspects of disaster management has helped in holistic delineation of a number of critical themes such as legal frameworks of disaster management, good practices, use of innovative approaches and technology, multilateral cooperation, the role of civil society organisations, among others. This book will be of interest to the students and researchers working in the field of disaster studies, geography, geology, development studies, public administration, public policy, economics, and governance. It will also be an invaluable companion for policy makers, practitioners, academicians and development planners working in the area of disaster management.
