New perspectives in global environmental disasters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emerald Publishing, author, issuing body.

Series:

Emerald gems.

Emerald Gems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disaster relief.

Emergency management.

Environmental disasters.

Environmental management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 232 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

United Kingdom : Emerald, 2015.

Summary:

The articles published in this collection identify some emergent themes and key issues among academics in the field of environmental management research, including community-based disaster management, AHP-based decision support systems, crisis management, and emergency planning.

Contents:

A fuzzy AHP based decision support system for disaster center location selection and a case study for Istanbul / Banu Tu�gba Tur�gut [and four others]

Challenges of disaster vulnerability reduction in Lagos megacity area, Nigeria / Eziyi Offia Ibem

Community preparedness for tsunami disaster: a case study / Aini Mat Said, Fakhru�l-Razi Ahmadun, Ahmad Rodzi Mahmud and Fuad Abas

Disaster management in Cameroon: the Lake Nyos disaster experience / Henry Ngenyam Bang

Impacts of temporary housing on housing reconstruction after the Bam earthquake / Mojtaba Rafieian and Ali Asgary

In pursuit of ideal emergency planning in Korea / Kyoo-Man Ha

Innovations and lessons learned from the Canterbury earthquakes: emergency department staff narratives / Sandra Richardson and Michael Ardagh

Multi-agency community engagement during disaster recovery: lessons from two New Zealand earthquake events / David Johnston, Julia Becker and Douglas Paton

Operationalizing "resilience" for disaster risk reduction in mountainous Nepal / Karen I. Sudmeier, Michel Jaboyedoff and Stephanie Jaquet

Social vulnerability analysis for sustainable disaster mitigation planning in coastal Bangladesh / Bishawji Mallick, Khan Rubayet Rahaman and Joachim Vogt

Critical success factors for community-based post-disaster housing reconstruction projects in the pre-construction stage in Indonesia / Taufika Ophiyandri, Dilanthi Amarantunga, Chaminda Pathirage and Kaushal Keraminiyage

Framing responses to post-earthquake Haiti: how representations of disasters, reconstruction and human settlements shape resilience / Lisa Bornstein, Gonzalo Lizarralde, Kevin A. Gould and Colin Davidson

Implementation of Hyogo framework for action in Makati City, Philippines / Yuki Matsuoka, Yukiko Takeuchi and Rajib Shaw.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781785608087

1785608088

OCLC:

1007678649