Disaster management and human health risk : reducing risk, improving outcomes / editors, K. Duncan, C.A. Brebbia.

SECTION 1: Emergency preparedness and risk mitigation

-Earth observation and network of in situ ground sensors for disaster management and early warning
-Geospatial web services and applications for infectious disease surveillance
-Developing a spatial-based approach for vulnerability assessment of Philippine watersheds and its potential in disaster management
-Computational tools for evaluating bio emergency plans
-The threats and challenges of a radiological emergency
Etc.

SECTION 2: Natural Disasters

-Applying MORT to the analysis of Tabasco's flooding
-DMT- an integrated disaster management tool
-From national landslide database to national hazard assessment
-Offshore disasters
Etc.

SECTION 3: Learning from Disasters
-Training decision-makers in hazard spatial prediction
-An inverse and decompositional analysis of unobserved trigger factors according to slope failure types
-Capacity empowerment and building: integrated recovery management framework in china

SECTION 4: Analysis, monitoring and mitigation of natural and man-made disasters (special session organised by M. Maugeri)
-Historical view of the damaged caused by the 1693 catania earthquake and the reconstruction activities
-The road map for the seismic geotechnical vulnerability of the physical environment
-Seismic vulnerability of a slope in central Italy
-A procedure for evaluation of geotechnical risk in urban areas: the case of centuripe town
Etc.

Includes: references (p.390) and index (p.391-392)

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.