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Hazards Analysis : Reducing the Impact of Disasters, 2nd Edition

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Title: Hazards Analysis : Reducing the Impact of Disasters, 2nd Edition
Author: John C. Pine
ISBN: 1482228912 / 9781482228915
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 338
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2015
Availability: In Stock
     
 
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The impacts of natural and man-made disasters have increased exponentially over the past few decades. Moreover, with our global interconnectedness and the growing scale of disasters, today's catastrophic disasters can have regional, national, and even global economic consequences.

Following in the tradition of the successful first edition, Hazards Analysis: Reducing the Impact of Disasters, Second Edition provides a structure and process for understanding the nature of natural and human-caused disasters. Stressing the role of hazard risk management for public, private, and nonprofit organizations, the author and expert contributors cover problem solving, risk analysis, and risk communications to ensure readers are in a position to identify key problems associated with hazards and the risks that they present.

The bookdetails a systematic process of hazards identification, vulnerability determination, and consequence assessment for the natural, built, and human environment. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, this book effectively demonstrates how to use the results of vulnerability assessment, spatial analysis, and community planning to reduce adverse disaster outcomes and foster social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Throughout, the book stresses that hazards analysis is not an isolated process but one that must engage the local community.

Complete with clearly set objectives, key terms, discussion questions, satellite images and maps, and ancillary websites for further study, this authoritative guide covers every element of the hazard analysis process in a step-by-step format. Hazards Analysis presents time-proven strategies for building sustainable communities, identifying and prioritizing risks, and establishing successful disaster prevention and relief strategies prior to a disaster.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Editor
Contributors

Chapter 1 : Introduction to Hazards Analysis
Chapter 2 : Hazards Identification
Chapter 3 : Modeling Natural- and Human-Caused Hazards
Chapter 4 : Spatial Analysis
Chapter 5 : Risk Analysis : Assessing the Risks of Hazards
Chapter 6 : Social, Economic, and Ecological Vulnerability
Chapter 7 : Risk Communication
Chapter 8 : Hazards Risk Management Process
Chapter 9 : Planning for Sustainable and Disaster-Resilient Communities
Chapter 10 : Creating Disaster-Resilient Communities : A New Natural Hazards Risk Management Framework

Index

 
 
 
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