Approaches to Managing Disaster : Assessing Hazards, Emergencies and Disaster Impacts / / edited by John Tiefenbacher

• Autore: John Tiefenbacher
• Pubblicazione: IntechOpen, 2012; Rijeka : , : IntechOpen, , 2012; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 176 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 363.348
• Soggetto topico: Emergency management
• Soggetto non controllato: Physical Sciences; Engineering and Technology; Natural Disaster; Earth and Planetary Sciences; Emergency Management
• Persona (resp. second.): TiefenbacherJohn
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: Approaches to Managing Disaster - Assessing Hazards, Emergencies and Disaster Impacts demonstrates the array of information that is critical for improving disaster management. The book reflects major management components of the disaster continuum (the nature of risk, hazard, vulnerability, planning, response and adaptation) in the context of threats that derive from both nature and technology. The chapters include a selection of original research reports by an array of international scholars focused either on specific locations or on specific events. The chapters are ordered according to the phases of emergencies and disasters. The text reflects the disciplinary diversity found within disaster management and the challenges presented by the co-mingling of science and social science in their collective efforts to promote improvements in the techniques, approaches, and decision-making by emergency-response practitioners and the public. This text demonstrates the growing complexity of disasters and their management, as well as the tests societies face every day.
• Altri titoli varianti: Approaches to managing disaster
• Titolo autorizzato: Approaches to Managing Disaster
• ISBN: 953-51-4323-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910317627503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II