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Record Nr.

UNINA9910346730203321

Autore

John P. Tiefenbacher

Titolo

Natural hazards : risk, exposure, response, and resilience / / edited by John P. Tiefenbacher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : IntechOpen, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-78985-441-5

1-78984-086-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour)

Disciplina

363.34

Soggetti

Emergency management

Natural disasters - Mathematical models

Natural disasters - Risk assessment

Natural disasters - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Natural Hazards - Risk, Exposure, Response, and Resilience demonstrates advanced techniques to measure risks, exposures, responses, and solutions to hazards in an array of communities. Eleven original research reports by international scholars on hazard assessment and management are organized into four sections: studies assessing risk using in-depth modeling and technological detection to provide insight into problems associated with earthquakes, torrential rains, and nuclear power plant safety; studies revealing the spatial distributions of exposure and impacts from an assortment of hazards; studies examining human response to increased awareness of the patterns of hazard; and a study demonstrating assessment of resilience of sociotechnological systems to natural hazards. This volume contributes new conceptual and practical commentaries to assess, mitigate, and plan for disasters.