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At war with the weather
The United States and other nations are facing large-scale risks at an accelerating rhythm. In 2005, three major hurricanes--Katrina, Rita, and Wilma--made landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast within a six-week period. The damage caused by these storms led to insurance reimbursements and federal disaster relief of more than $180 billion--a record sum. Today we are more vulnerable to catastrophic losses because of the increasing concentration of population and activities in high-risk coastal regions of the country. The question is not whether but when, and how frequently, future catastrophes will strike and the extent of damages they will cause. Who should pay the costs associated with catastrophic losses suffered by homeowners in hazard-prone areas? In At War with the Weather, Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan with their colleagues deliver a groundbreaking analysis of how we currently mitigate, insure against, and finance recovery from natural disasters in the United States. They offer innovative, long-term solutions for reducing losses and providing financial support for disaster victims that define a coherent strategy to assure sustainable recovery from future large-scale disasters. The amount of data collected and analyzed and innovations proposed make this the most comprehensive book written on these critical issues in the past thirty years.
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Nuclear physics at border lines : proceedings of the international conference : Lipari (Messina), Italy, 21-24 May 2001
This is a collection of invited talks and oral contributions presented by the leading scientists in their fields, summarizing the most recent progress of, and new prospects for, nuclear physics research.It covers a broad range of the recent developments in nuclear physics: reactions between massive nuclei leading to superheavy element formation; radioactive beams and neutron-rich systems; exotic nuclei and nuclear astrophysics; new states of nuclear matter.Contents:Opening Talk: Nuclear Structure at Border Lines (Yu Ts Oganessian)Hard Photons: A Probe of Dynamical Effects in Heavy Ion Collisions at Intermediate Energy (R Alba et al.)Studying Exotic Nuclei Through Direct Reactions (Y Blumenfeld)Isospin Effects on Instabilities and Fragmentation Mechanisms (M Colonna et al.)New Opportunities with Beams of Rare Isotopes in the US (C K Gelbke)Preliminary Results and Future Activities at the GARFIELD Apparatus (F Gramegna et al.)Mean-Field Calculations of Super-Heavy Elements (P H Heenen)Recent Experiments and Plans for the Synthesis of Superheavy Elements at the GSI SHIP (S Hofmann)Nuclear Fission at Border Lines (M G Itkis et al.)Many-Body Theory at Extreme Isospin (H Lenske et al.)Probing Correlations in Many-Body Haloes (F M Marqués Moreno)Theoretical Approaches and Experimental Evidences for Liquid-Vapor Phase Transitions in Nuclei (L G Moretto et al.)Study of Halo-Structure in Radioactive He and Li Nuclei with Proton Elastic Scattering (A V Dobrovolsky et al.)Effects of the Shell Structure in Reactions Leading to the Same Compound Nucleus or Different Isotopes (A K Nasirov et al.)New Magic Number, N=16, Near the Neutron Drip Line (A Ozawa)Experiments on Super-Heavy Nuclei at GANIL (J Péter et al.)Thermodynamics of Hot Nuclei: Multifragmentation and Phase Transition (M F Rivet)Structure and Properties of Superheavy Nuclei (I Muntian & A Sobiczewski)Backtraced Neutron Multiplicities and Capture Dynamics in the Superheavy Region (L Stuttgé et al.)Astrophysical S Factors from Asymptotic Normalization Coefficients (R E Tribble et al.)and other papersReadership: Researchers in nuclear physics and astrophysics.
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