Rajib Shaw is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies of Kyoto University, Japan. He worked closely with the local communities, NGOs, governments and international organization, including United Nations, especially in the Asian countries. He is currently the Chair of the United Nations Asia Regional Task Force for Urban Risk Reduction. His research interests are: community based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. He has published several books in the field of disaster and environmental management. He is also the Chief Editor of Asian Journal of Environment and Disaster Management.
70 Ebooks door Rajib Shaw
Riyanti Djalante & Matthias Garschagen: Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia
This book is a unique, transdisciplinary summary of the state of the art of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Indonesia. It provides a comprehensive overview of disaster risk governance across all lev …
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€181.89
Rajib Shaw: Community Practices for Disaster Risk Reduction in Japan
This book presents key lessons from community-based risk-reduction practices in Japan, a country that is often hit by disasters and that also has shown strong resilience in coping with those disaster …
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€96.29
Rajib Shaw & Fuad Mallick: Climate Change Adaptation Actions in Bangladesh
The book outlines the climate change adaptation (CCA) actions in Bangladesh drawing examples and lessons from different projects and programs in the country. The content is based on a selection …
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€96.29
Rajib Shaw & Fuad Mallick: Disaster Risk Reduction Approaches in Bangladesh
This book outlines disaster risk reduction (DRR) approaches in Bangladesh, drawing examples and lessons from the national and community-level programs, projects, and relevant experiences of the count …
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€171.19
Rajib Shaw: Disaster Recovery
This book explains key lessons learned from diverse disaster situations and analyzes them within the framework of governance, education, and technology, providing a framework for disaster recovery as …
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€149.79
Rajib Shaw & Takako Izumi: Civil Society Organization and Disaster Risk Reduction
Civil society organizations (CSOs) have played important roles over the years in the disaster field. Starting from the traditional approach of response and relief, the emphasis has gradually sh …
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€96.29
Juha I. Uitto & Rajib Shaw: Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction
This book focuses on exploring the linkages between natural disasters and sustainable development at the global, regional, and national levels. Disasters and development are closely related, yet the …
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€106.99
Rajib Shaw & Yukihiko Oikawa: Education for Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Reduction
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Disaster Risk Reduction Education (DRRE) have overlapping areas of concern focusing on strengthening the link to local communities. In reality, there i …
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€96.29
Rajib Shaw: Recovery from the Indian Ocean Tsunami
During the past 10 years following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, invaluable lessons have been learned and great changes have been observed. Immediately after the disaster, the second World Conferenc …
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Rajib Shaw: Tohoku Recovery
The March 11 disaster in 2011, known as the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, caused extensive damage in various sectors. Through the recovery process, special lessons are being learned and ap …
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€96.29
Hari Krishna Nibanupudi & Rajib Shaw: Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction
The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and water-induced disasters. This fragile mountain region is under tremendous stress from climate change and land-use degrada …
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€96.29
Atta-Ur- Rahman & Amir Nawaz Khan: Disaster Risk Reduction Approaches in Pakistan
This book is a pioneering regional work and provides a balanced approach of theory and practice in disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Pakistan. The book analytically discusses the status of DRR and dra …
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€96.29
Umma Habiba & Md. Anwarul Abedin: Food Security and Risk Reduction in Bangladesh
This book draws examples from food security issues in Bangladesh. The book is structured around those issues and underlying causes of food security, the implications from different sectors, policy an …
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€96.29
Takako Izumi & Rajib Shaw: Disaster Management and Private Sectors
This book draws upon case studies and practices of different types of DRR involvement by the private sector from all over the world. The book comprises two parts, Part I: Overview and Regional Cases; …
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€96.29
Koichi Shiwaku & Aiko Sakurai: Disaster Resilience of Education Systems
Education is regarded as a cross-cutting issue for disaster risk reduction (DRR) through reviewing the Sendai Framework for DRR (SFDRR) 2015–2030. Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the e …
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€96.29
Michiko Banba & Rajib Shaw: Land Use Management in Disaster Risk Reduction
This book provides a wide range of studies on methods of assessing natural disaster risks and reducing those risks in the context of land use. A major benefit of the book is that it presents extensiv …
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€149.79
Rajarshi DasGupta & Rajib Shaw: Participatory Mangrove Management in a Changing Climate
This book outlines the performance and management of mangroves in the changing climatic scenario of the Asia-Pacific region and draws examples and lessons from the national and community-driven mangr …
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€96.29
Indrajit Pal & Rajib Shaw: Disaster Risk Governance in India and Cross Cutting Issues
This book provides an analytical discussion of the status of disaster risk reduction and governance in an Indian context, drawing examples and lessons from the output of the national and regional lev …
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€96.29
Atta-ur-Rahman & Gulsan Ara Parvin: Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia
Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia presents the latest information on the intensity and frequency of disasters. Specifically, the fact that, in urban areas, more than 50% of the world’s populatio …
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€63.02
Takako Izumi & Rajib Shaw: Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia
Science and Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia: Potentials and Challenges provides both a local and global perspective on how to implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. …
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€101.39
Shimpei Iwasaki & Rajib Shaw: Integrated Lagoon Fisheries Management
Lagoons are characterized by an essential quality of uncertainty for use in resource management: these are physically vulnerable to various influences from not only the environment but also the adjac …
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€106.80
Anshu Sharma & Rajib Shaw: Climate and Disaster Resilience in Cities
One of the emerging reasons for the current trend of increasing impacts of disasters is the unpredictability of natural hazard events coupled with the tendency of human settlements to move to vulnera …
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€120.42
Joy Pereira & Juan Pulhin: Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
Following on from Volume 4 in this series, which looked at issues and challenges with regard to Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), Volume 5 has a specific focus on Asi …
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€148.23
Joy Pereira & Juan Pulhin: Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
The importance of Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is increasing due, in part, to recent major disasters throughout the world. CCA and DRR are closely associated and …
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€139.97
Rajib Shaw & Koichi Shiwaku: Disaster Education
Education is the key to risk reduction, be it environmental management or disaster risk reduction, and is a process which needs to be embedded at different levels of management and practices to colle …
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€112.99
Huy Nguyen & Rajib Shaw: Droughts in Asian Monsoon Region
Drought is a slow-onset disaster. The impacts are invisible and are often reflected as a complex socio-economic phenomenon. Due to changes in the climatic conditions droughts are increasingly occurri …
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€112.99
Rajib Shaw & Phong Tran: Environment Disaster Linkages
Disaster management has historically focused on reactive approaches, but a shift to proactive approaches is crucial for addressing concerns raised by the changing environment. A prime reason for the …
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€146.63
Rajib Shaw: Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction
Communities are at the core of disaster risk reduction (DRR), and community based approaches are getting increasing focus in national DRR plans. In the case of past disasters, communities were always …
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€155.37
Ilan Kelman & Armando Lamadrid: Climate Change Modelling for Local Adaptation in the Hindu Kush – Himalayan Region
This book presents a portrait of the social advantages and limitations of climate change related modeling in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region. Physical systems modeling – such as of climate, wea …
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€126.19
Rajib Shaw & Noralene Uy: Ecosystem-Based Adaptation
Ecosystems are often examined from a ecological perspective because of the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Ecosystems of different types and scales are under increasing pressure du …
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€125.54
Andreas Neef & Rajib Shaw: Risk and Conflicts
Communities affected by natural disasters are often stigmatized as being passive with regard to disaster prevention, mitigation and adaptation, waiting only for government assistance in the aftermath …
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€125.63
M. A. Abedin & Umma Habiba: Water Insecurity
It has been estimated that globally, 1.2 billion people live with acute shortage of water. Water scarcity, particularly in south and south-east Asian countries, is well known. However, the social dil …
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€125.38
Jonas Joerin & R. R. Krishnamurthy: Building Resilient Urban Communities
‘How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanisation and climate change? This book throws light on the ongoing processes of rapid urban transformation in many cities in de …
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€124.94
Yuki Matsuoka & Rajib Shaw: Hyogo Framework for Action and Urban Disaster Resilience
We live in a world which continues to experience dramatic suffering and loss of life due to natural hazard. The disaster paradigm has accelerated efforts towards resilience building, particularly sin …
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€136.38
Rajib Shaw & Hori Tsuneki: Local Disaster Risk Management in a Changing Climate
‘Disasters cause economic as well as human losses. Indeed, economic losses associated directly with disasters have continued at increasing proportions worldwide since the 1970s, as the 2011 Global As …
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€126.10
Anshu Sharma & Rajib Shaw: Urban Risk Reduction
As cities all over the world have urbanized rapidly after the industrial revolution, most cities have confronted environmental problems such as poor air and water quality, high levels of traffic cong …
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€49.80
Rajib Shaw & Danai Thaitakoo: Water Communities
Water is the key to human civilization. Most of the ancient civilization had its roots to river basins, where people-water interaction was the key aspect. Due to innovations of knowledge and technolo …
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€105.99
Emily Ying Yang Chan & Rajib Shaw: Public Health and Disasters
This book presents the health emergency and disaster risk management (H-EDRM) research landscape, with examples from Asia. In recent years, the intersection of health and disaster risk reduction (DRR …
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€149.79
Riyanti Djalante & Mizan B. F. Bisri: Integrated Research on Disaster Risks
This book is a collection of works written by young scientists involved in the Integrated Disaster Risk Research (IRDR). Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) is a decade-long research programm …
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€128.39
Rajib Shaw & Suvendrini Kakuchi: Media and Disaster Risk Reduction
This book analyzes recent advances, trends, challenges and potentials of the role of media in disaster risk reduction. Collaboration, co-design and co-delivery with other stakeholders in science tech …
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Juan M. Pulhin & Makoto Inoue: Climate Change, Disaster Risks, and Human Security
This book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia. Climate change and disaster risks have emerged as major human security challenges in the twenty-first century …
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€139.09
Mihoko Sakurai & Rajib Shaw: Emerging Technologies for Disaster Resilience
Technological advances have helped to enhance disaster resilience through better risk reduction, response, mitigation, rehabilitation and reconstruction. In former times, it was local and traditional …
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Mahua Mukherjee & Rajib Shaw: Ecosystem-Based Disaster and Climate Resilience
This book provides an introduction to the critical role of ecosystem-based disaster risk resilience (Eco-DRR) for building community resilience to multiple environmental risks such as rising heat, wa …
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€160.49
Riyanti Djalante & Indrajit Pal: Disaster Resilience and Sustainability
Disasters undermine societal well-being, causing loss of lives and damage to social and economic infrastructures. Disaster resilience is central to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, e …
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€123.19
Joy Jacqueline Pereira & Mohd Khairul Zain: Climate Change Adaptation in Southeast Asia
This book highlights the current issues, challenges, and priorities for climate change adaptation in the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The status of each co …
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€128.39
Jinling Hua & Bismark Adu Gyamfi: Considerations for a Post-COVID-19 Technology and Innovation Ecosystem in China
COVID-19 has made differential impacts on countries and communities around the world. China, where COVID-19 started, has developed and utilized different types of technologies, including both traditi …
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€128.39
Raju Sarkar & Rajib Shaw: Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides
This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries. Scholars recently have brought about a shift in their focus re …
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Rajib Shaw & Anjula Gurtoo: Global Pandemic and Human Security
This book highlights how the human security aspect has been affected by the global pandemic, based on the specific case study, field data, and evidence. COVID-19 has exemplified that the pandemic is …
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Helen James & Rajib Shaw: Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia Pacific
This book brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from across the Asia Pacific region, covering four main sections: 1) Governance, 2) Education and Capacity, 3) Science, Technology, Risk Asses …
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Indrajit Pal & Rajib Shaw: Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience
Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience: COVID-19 Responses in Cities Around the World examines the pandemic’s global impacts on public health, economies, society and labor. The book shows how COVID- …
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€123.42
Pradeep Ray & Rajib Shaw: Technology Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development
This book discusses the need for entrepreneurship for sustainable development from the perspective of Asia, the fastest growing region in the world. The world is now witnessing a spectacular rise of …
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€128.39
Takako Izumi & Indrajit Pal: Safety and Resilience of Higher Educational Institutions
The world has spent the majority of 2020 enduring an unpreceded crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of this crisis has been enormous, and the situation has yet to be resolved. It is st …
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Yonariza & Indrajit Pal: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development
This, conference proceeding, book contains invited articles and contributory papers from the 2nd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by Asian Institu …
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€213.99
Sakiko Kanbara & Rajib Shaw: Society 5.0, Digital Transformation and Disasters
This book presents the evolution of the science technology paradigm in Japan and analyzes the critical community and local governance issues from the perspectives of the changing risk landscape, Soci …
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Rajib Shaw: Handbook on Climate Change and Disasters
This comprehensive Handbook assesses the escalation of global natural disasters as a result of climate change. Examining the complex interplay of human and natural activities, it highlights the growi …
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€61.49
Indrajit Pal & Rajib Shaw: Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building
Multi-hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building: Cross Cutting Issues presents multi-disciplinary issues facing disaster risk reduction and sustainable development, focusing on various dimensions …
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€163.09
Soumita Banerjee & Gouri Sankar Bhunia: Climate Change, Community Response and Resilience
Climate Change, Community Response, and Resilience: Insight for Socio-Ecological Sustainability, Volume Six presents a fundamental theoretical framework for understanding how community resilience and …
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€148.24
Uday Chatterjee & Rajib Shaw: Climate Crisis: Adaptive Approaches and Sustainability
This book aims to contribute to the discourse on climate crisis by bringing together high-quality empirical research on adaptive approaches and sustainability case studies from across the world. The …
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€139.09
Wanglin Yan & William Galloway: Resilient and Adaptive Tokyo
Our cities, and the systems that support them, have not been designed to address the FWE nexus. There exist gaps in awareness of the role and impacts of climate change. Improving communication among …
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€181.89
Rajat Mazumder & Rajib Shaw: Surface Environments and Human Interactions
This book describes the complex interplay between Earth’s surface processes (erosion and sedimentation) and human interactions. Intensive as well as extensive research has been undertaken to infer mo …
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€139.09
Uday Chatterjee & Raktima Ghosh: Homelessness to Hope
Homelessness to Hope: Research, Policy and Practices on Global Perspectives brings together stories, observations and critical appraisals that have emerged out of the interdisciplinary studies spanni …
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€147.65
Raju Sarkar & Sunil Saha: Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools
This book explores the use of advanced geospatial techniques in geomorphic hazards modelling and risk reduction. It also compares the accuracy of traditional statistical methods and advanced machine …
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€149.79
Gopal Krishna Panda & Rajib Shaw: Landslide: Susceptibility, Risk Assessment and Sustainability
The book illustrates a geospatial and geostatistical approach to data analysis, modeling, risk assessment, and visualization, as well as landslide hazard management in the hilly region. This book inv …
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€160.49
Rajib Shaw & Srabani Roy Choudhury: India, Japan and Beyond
Japan–India relations have traversed from ‘distantly friendly’ to ‘indispensable partners.’ The significant development of the India-Japan strategic partnership, the convergence of bilateral st …
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Rajib Shaw & Kampanart Silva: Energy, Sustainability and Resilience
This book analyzes the experiences of energy, sustainability and resilience issues from different Asian countries and puts forward a futuristic vision of an energy sector for sustained development. E …
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Eiko Wataya & Rajib Shaw: Soft Assets in Smart and Resilient City Development
Over the past decade, building smarter, resilient cities is an established global trend in urban development, including developing countries. Unexpected external shocks, disasters and damage from cli …
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€139.09
Ayse Yildiz & Rajib Shaw: Disaster and Climate Risk Education
Education serves as a cornerstone for gaining knowledge and taking initiative. However, despite efforts in disaster and climate risk education (DCRE), a gap often exists between awareness and meaning …
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€117.69
Takako Izumi & Miwa Abe: All-Hazards Approach
This book presents case studies of risk management of various hazards and risk management systems at regional, national, and local levels. It also proposes a comprehensive approach to reduce future r …
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Pradeep Kumar Ray & Rajib Shaw: Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development of Healthcare and Disaster Management
This book provides holistic case studies of technology development, examples of its complexities and an in-depth analysis from the perspective of information infrastructure. Natural disasters such as …
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Sudip Mitra & Rajib Shaw: Disaster Risk Reduction and Rural Resilience
Even though frequent disaster losses occur in rural and agricultural areas, a substantial number of the prevailing disaster research has focused on urban areas, often failing to notice rural populati …
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