Overview
- Presents state of the art ‘forensic analysis’ approaches to understanding the root causes of disasters and thereby presents insights in preventing, preparing for and managing disasters
- Shows how disasters can be avoided through knowledge-based actions
- Stresses the importance of a global, multi-disciplinary approach to dealing with the challenges brought by natural disasters
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications (ASTSA)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Recently the global threat landscape has seen the emergence of high impact, low probability events. Events like Hurricane Katrina, the Great Japan Earthquake and tsunami, Hurricane Sandy, Super Typhoon Haiyan, global terrorist activities have become the new norm. Extreme events challenge our understanding regarding the interdependencies and complexity of the disaster aetiology and are often referred to as Black Swans. Between 2002 and 2011, there were 4130 disasters recorded that resulted from natural hazards around the world. In these, 1,117,527 people perished and a minimum of US$1,195 billion in losses were reported. In the year 2011 alone, 302 disasters claimed 29,782 lives; affected 206 million people and inflicted damages worth a minimum of estimated US$366 billion.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disaster Forensics
Book Subtitle: Understanding Root Cause and Complex Causality
Editors: Anthony J. Masys
Series Title: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41849-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41847-6Published: 13 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82445-1Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41849-0Published: 03 September 2016
Series ISSN: 1613-5113
Series E-ISSN: 2363-9466
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 409
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Security Science and Technology, Natural Hazards, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Methodology of the Social Sciences