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Management of natural disasters / edited by S. Syngellakis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- WIT Transactions on State-Of-the-art in Science and Engineering Series
- WIT Transactions on State-Of-the-art in Science and Engineering Series ; v.92
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disasters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (309 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Southampton, Boston, Massachussettes : WIT Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- Comprising a selection of articles dedicated to disaster management this volume focuses on the challenges arising from extreme natural phenomena and descriptions of methods for assessing their occurrence probability and of measures for mitigating their intensity and detrimental effects.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Management of Natural Disasters
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Acronyms
- Contents
- Assessing the economic impacts of crises: a decision-support approach to long-term strategic planning
- A disaster severity assessment decision support tool for reducing the risk of failure in response operations
- Just and safe housing for informal settlers in the developing world
- Hydrometeorological effects of climate change on the habitat in Southern Mexico
- The preparation and integration of Turkey's national disaster response plan
- The evolution of the protection systems against natural disasters in Brazil: laws, agencies, information and knowledge
- Towards an integrated early warning system and disaster management in the United Arab Emirates
- Analysis of annual flood peak records in Mexico
- A preliminary flood-risk assessment of municipalities located in headwater basins of Slovakia based on an integrated approach
- SESAME: improving small and medium enterprises' operational response and preparedness to flood events
- Analysis of the loss probability relation on a community level: a contribution to a comprehensive flood risk assessment
- Flood hazard: planning approach to risk mitigation and periphery rehabilitation
- Flood risk assessment and management: a case study in Rio de Janeiro
- Case study: flood impact reduction
- Assessment of the flood disaster management plans for the medical services in Tokyo and Fukuoka, Japan
- Determination of the weighting factors of criteria influencing highway flooding using multi criteria analysis based on an analytic hierarchy process
- The impact of flood on the socio-economic status of residents of Wadata and Gado- villa communities in the Makurdi metropolitan area of Benue State, Nigeria.
- The megacity indicator system for disaster risk management: integrated assessment of physical risks in Istanbul
- Seismic vulnerability assessment of health facilities in Mexico City, Mexico
- Advances in urban planning and territorial management in the city of Lorca after the earthquake of May 11, 2011
- Tsunami flood risk prediction using a neural network
- Landslide risk management in Malaysia
- Early warning about regional landslides using rainfall characteristics
- On spatial uncertainty in hazard and risk assessment
- Author index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 10, 2017).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78466-230-5
- OCLC:
- 967085469
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