Disaster Management and Human Health Risk
WIT Press (Verlag)
978-1-78466-187-8 (ISBN)
As the human population has continued to concentrate in urban areas the number of people and the value of property affected by both natural and man-produced disasters has also grown. Earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes and forest fires have all taken their toll, as have man-made catastrophes such as industrial spillages and terrorist attacks.
The included paper cover various subject areas, including: Disaster analysis; Disaster monitoring and mitigation; Emergency preparedness; Risk mitigation; Risk and security; Resilience; Socio-economic issues; Health risk; Human factors; Multi-hazard risk assessment; Case studies; Learning from disasters and man-made disasters.
Contents
Lessons learned after disaster? Emergency shelter and housing policy after Hurricane Katrina; Government disaster response and narrative retrospection: a comparative study of the electoral impacts in Denmark and Sweden of the 2004 Tsunami; The communication and social network flows approach for disruption preparedness; Organizational structure for disaster management projects; Seismic risk assessment as a basic tool for emergency planning: "PACES" EU Project; An online-based visual framework of 3D positioning data with wireless signal for buried persons; Use of a geospatial early-warning decision support system to prepare for disasters or plan for multiple hazards: DECATASTROPHIZE; Generalized multiplicative model for predicting post-traumatic stress disorder after natural disasters: theoretical considerations; Rebuilding lives: psychological trauma and growth in the aftermath of a catastrophic Australian bushfire; Significant factors associated with the mental health of earthquake victims, centered on the case of South Korea; School preparedness and training for geological hazard mitigation: an example from Indonesia; Awareness and attitude towards mass disaster and its management among house surgeons in a dental college and hospital in Chennai, India; Evaluation of the effectiveness of modern communication channels during emergency situations; Disaster volunteerism: a utilitarian perspective; Bluff erosion hazards and construction setbacks on the Great Lakes coasts of the United States: a review; Challenges for self-recovery from cyclone disasters in a traditional Fijian village: the case of Navala village after tropical cyclone Winston; Recovering from natural disasters: helping museum employees return to workplace normalcy; The role of community welfare centers to enhance community disaster resilience; Khartoum and hybrid disasters; Disaster causative agents: an examination of the social and political context in the Niger Delta region; Air pollution risk assessment of hazardous and noxious substance-spill accidents: a case study of Ulsan Port, Korea; The self-organizing map analysis of accidents involving hazardous and noxious substances
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Erscheinungsdatum | 14.08.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | WIT Transactions on the Built Environment ; 173 |
Verlagsort | Southampton |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Arbeits- / Sozial- / Umweltmedizin |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78466-187-2 / 1784661872 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78466-187-8 / 9781784661878 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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