City Evacuations: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Evacuating a city is a complex problem that involves issues of governance, preparedness education, warning, information sharing, population dynamics, resilience and recovery. As natural and anthropogenic threats to cities grow, it is an increasingly pressing problem for policy makers and practitione...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Preston, John (Editor ), Binner, Jane M. (Editor ), Branicki, Layla (Editor ), Galla, Tobias (Editor ), Jones, Nick (Editor ), King, James (Editor ), Kolokitha, Magdalini (Editor ), Smyrnakis, Michalis (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edición:1st ed. 2015.
Temas:
Dynamics.
Nonlinear theories.
Sociology.
Applied Dynamical Systems.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • City Evacuations: their pedagogy and the need for an inter-disciplinary approach
  • Unpacking the impacts of social media upon crisis communication and city evacuation
  • Simulation of information spreading following a Crisis
  • Quantitative decision-making rules for the next generation of smarter evacuations
  • Decentralized optimisation of resource allocation in disaster management
  • A Semi-automated Display for Geotagged Text
  • Conclusion: evacuations and transmedia vulnerability.

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