Overview
- Examines current practice on disaster management
- Provides the latest thought on crisis and disaster resilience
- Examines both theoretical and practical applications of disaster relief
- Provides aid to policy makers in response management strategies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks (LNSN)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Urban Domain
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Front Matter
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Organizational/Social Domain
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Front Matter
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Socio-Ecological Domain
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Front Matter
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Keywords
- Crisis and Disaster Management
- Disaster Risk Assessment and Reduction
- Enabling Resiliance to Disasters
- Natural Disaster Relief and Recovery
- Policy Strategies for Disasters
- Security Issues and Disasters
- Social Impact of Disasters
- Social Networks and Disaster Relief
- Sustainability and Risk Reduction
- climate change impacts
- Climate change management
About this book
The present work will discuss relevant theoretical frameworks and applications pertaining to enabling resilience within the risk, crisis and disaster management domain. The contributions to this book focus on resilience thinking along 4 broad themes: Urban Domain; Cyber Domain; Organizational/Social domain; and Socio-ecological domain. This book would serve as a valuable reference for courses on risk, crisis and disaster management, international development, social innovation and resilience. This will be of particular interest to those working in the risk, crisis and disaster management domain as it will provide valuable insights into enabling resilience. This book will be well positioned to inform disaster management professionals, policy makers and academics on strategies and perspectives regarding disaster resilience.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
A former senior Air Force Officer, Dr Masys has a BSc in Physics and MSc in Underwater Acoustics and Oceanography from the Royal Military College of Canada and a PhD in sociology from the University of Leicester.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disaster Management: Enabling Resilience
Editors: Anthony Masys
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Social Networks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08819-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08818-1Published: 12 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37797-1Published: 22 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08819-8Published: 03 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2190-5428
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5436
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 338
Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Natural Hazards, Climate Change Management and Policy, Business Ethics, Security Science and Technology