Disaster management and human health risk :  reducing risk, improving outcomes / 
editors, K. Duncan, C.A. Brebbia. 
 - Southampton, UK :  Billerica, MA :  WIT Press ;  Computational Mechanics,  c2009. 
 - 392 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - WIT transactions on the built environment ;  v. 110 .
<br/><br/> <br/>SECTION 1: Emergency preparedness and risk mitigation<br/><br/>-Earth observation and network of in situ ground sensors for disaster management and early warning<br/>-Geospatial web services and applications for infectious disease surveillance<br/>-Developing a spatial-based approach for vulnerability assessment of Philippine watersheds and its potential in disaster management<br/>-Computational tools for evaluating bio emergency plans <br/>-The threats and challenges of a radiological emergency<br/>Etc.<br/><br/>SECTION 2: Natural Disasters<br/><br/>-Applying MORT to the analysis of Tabasco's flooding<br/>-DMT- an integrated disaster management tool<br/>-From national landslide database to national hazard assessment<br/>-Offshore disasters<br/>Etc.<br/><br/>SECTION 3: Learning from Disasters<br/>-Training decision-makers in hazard spatial prediction<br/>-An inverse and decompositional analysis of unobserved trigger factors according to slope failure types<br/>-Capacity empowerment and building: integrated recovery management framework in china<br/><br/>SECTION 4: Analysis, monitoring and mitigation of natural and man-made disasters (special session organised by M. Maugeri)<br/>-Historical view of the damaged caused by the 1693 catania earthquake and the reconstruction activities<br/>-The road map for the seismic geotechnical vulnerability of the physical environment<br/>-Seismic vulnerability of a slope in central Italy<br/>-A procedure for evaluation of geotechnical risk in urban areas: the case of centuripe town<br/>Etc.     <br/><br/> 
<br/><br/>Includes:  references (p.390) and index (p.391-392) 
<br/><br/> Today the world faces unparalleled threats from human-made disasters that can be attributed to failure of industrial and energy installation as well as to terrorism. Added to this is the unparalleled threat of emerging and re-emerging diseases, with scientists predicting events such as an influenza pandemic. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781845642020 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>17464498 (print) 17433509 (online) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010277026 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA957196  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Disaster relief.<br/>Public health.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.34  / DIS