Climate Events and Disaster Mitigation from Policy to Practice By Alejandro Linayo Rivero

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Publisher ‏: Daya Publishing House
Author : Alejandro Linayo Rivero, Biswajeet Pradhan, Jayant K. Routray
Language ‏: English
Edition : Latest By Publishers
Book Cover : Hard Back
ISBN : 9789351248699

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The Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries (NAM S&T Centre) is an inter-governmental organisation with a membership of 48 countries spread over Asia Africa Middle East and Latin America. Besides this 12 S&T agencies and academic / research institutions of Bolivia Botswana Brazil India Nigeria and Turkey are the members of the S&T-Industry Network of the Centre. The Centre was set up in 1989 to promote South-South cooperation through mutually beneficial partnerships among scientists and technologists and scientific organisations in developing countries. It implements a variety of programmes including international workshops meetings roundtables training courses and collaborative projects and brings out scientific publications including a quarterly Newsletter. It is also implementing 7 Fellowship schemes namely NAM S&T CentreResearch Fellowship Joint NAM S&T Centre ICCBS Karachi Fellowship Joint CSIR / CFTRI (Diamond Jubilee) - NAM S&T Centre Fellowship Joint NAM S&T Centre ZMT Bremen Fellowship Research Training Fellowship for Developing Country Scientists (RTF-DCS) NAM S&T Centre U2ACN2 Research Associateship in Nanosciences & Nanotechnology and Joint NAM S&T Centre DST (South Africa) Training Fellowship on Minerals Processing & Beneficiation in Indian institutions. These activities provide among others the opportunity for scientist-to-scientist contact and interaction training and expert assistance familiarising the scientific community on the latest developments and techniques in the subject areas and identification of technologies for transfer between member countries. The Centre has so far brought out 72 publications and has organised 100 international workshops and training programmes. For further details please visit www.namstct.org or write to the Director General NAM S&T Centre Core 6A 2nd Floor India Habitat Centre Lodhi Road New Delhi-110003 India (Phone: +91-11-24645134/ 24644974; Fax: +91-11-24644973; E-mail: namstcentre@gmail.com; namstct@bol.net.in).