The Dynamics of Risk : Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events /

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Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly interdependent systems of transportation, communication, energy, and finance. In this important book, Louise Comfort provides an unprecedented examination of how twelve com...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Comfort, Louise K. (Louise Kloos), 1935- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Risk management.
Earthquakes.
Earthquake relief.
Earthquake prediction.
Complex organizations.
Earthquake hazard analysis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
risk management.
earthquakes.
Organisations complexes.
Gestion du risque.
Secours aux victimes de tremblements de terre.
Tremblements de terre > Prevision.
Tremblements de terre.
Risques sismiques.
Risk Management
Earthquakes
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Redefining risk on a global scale
  • Risk in complex systems
  • Assessing risk in complex systems: data, methods, and measurement
  • Risk in practice
  • Toward an auto-adaptive system: the 2018 Lushan County, China, earthquake
  • Operative adaptive systems: 1999 Duzce, Turkey; 2009 Padang, Indonesia; 2011 Tohoku, Japan; and 2015 Nepal response and recovery systems
  • Emergent adaptive systems: 1999 Marmara, Turkey; 1999 Chi Chi, Twain; 2005 Pakistan; and 2008 Wenchuan, China, Earthquake response systems
  • Nonadaptive systems: 2001 Bhuj, Gujarat, India, earthquake; 2004 Sumatra, Indonesia, earthquake/tsunami; and 2010 Haiti earthquake response systems
  • Evolving patterns of system response
  • The logic or resilience.

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