Overview
- First volume dedicated to almost all aspects of IT use in the various phases of increasing the resilience of societies facing disasters
- Application topics balanced by chapters on methods and fundamentals
- Offers interdisciplinary viewpoints on the use of computer technology in disaster mitigation
- Includes novel approaches and recommendations for enhancing the resilience
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security (NAPSC)
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Table of contents (22 papers)
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Fundamentals and Modeling
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Tools and Applications
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About this book
The focus of this volume is comprised of the fundamentals, models, and information technologies (IT) methods and tools for disaster prediction and mitigation. A more detailed list of topics includes mathematical and computational modeling of processes leading to or producing disasters, modeling of disaster effects, IT means for disaster mitigation, including data mining tools, knowledge-based and expert systems for use in disaster circumstances, GIS-based systems for disaster prevention and mitigation and equipment for disaster-prone areas. A specific type or class of disasters (natural or human-made), however will not be part of the main focus of this work. Instead, this book was conceived to offer a comprehensive, integrative view on disasters, seeking to determine what various disasters have in common. Because disaster resilience and mitigation involve humans, societies and cultures, not only technologies and economic models, special attention was paid in this volume to gain a comprehensive view on these issues, as a foundation of the IT tool design.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Improving Disaster Resilience and Mitigation - IT Means and Tools
Editors: Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu, Alan Kirschenbaum, Svetlana Cojocaru, Claude Bruderlein
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9136-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9135-9Published: 22 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9138-0Published: 18 September 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9136-6Published: 08 September 2014
Series ISSN: 1874-6519
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6543
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 344
Number of Illustrations: 110 b/w illustrations
Topics: Simulation and Modeling, Natural Hazards, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Computer Applications