Overview
- Involvement of world’s top specialists in the various domains of interest
- A highly topical subject with some unique contributions
- A report based on an unique event where such a combination of scientific disciplines is gathering
- A future oriented study and analysis rather than a report of obtained results
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security (NAPSC)
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Table of contents (24 papers)
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Front Matter
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Nature and Effects of Possible Threat
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Fire and Collapse Risks of Urban Structures
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Material Properties, Structural Design and Testing
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Future Strategies
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Warning Systems
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About this book
Cities tend to become more crowded, the high rise buildings taller, the traffic nodes more complex. The volume of hazardous cargo passing increases with the growth of economy and the expansion of technology. As we have seen in the recent past, cities can become too easily a focus of terror. To counter these trends measures have to be taken. This book presents an overview of threats and measures based on a NATO advanced research workshop meant to make an inventory of items on which, for making progress research will be worthwhile to perform. The spectrum of subjects is broad. It covers various types of hazard threats, the mechanisms of collapse of structures including the doubts about why the WTC buildings collapsed following the impact of aircraft and the ensuing fires. New materials will offer improvements for protection, progress will be described in analyzing the robustness of structures against loading of various nature, and what can be gained by well performed risk control and planning of emergency response, taking trade-offs into account and requiring the new approach of scenario analysis. The book also contains an excellent report about the people flow along evacuation routes. It finally considers warning and communication systems and ways to motivate people to protect themselves.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilience of Cities to Terrorist and other Threats
Book Subtitle: Learning from 9/11 and further Research Issues
Editors: Hans J. Pasman, Igor A. Kirillov
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8489-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Architecture and Design, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8487-4Published: 29 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8488-1Published: 15 July 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8489-8Published: 19 June 2008
Series ISSN: 1874-6519
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6543
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 545
Topics: Urbanism, Political Science, Social Work, Basics of Construction, Safety in Chemistry, Dangerous Goods, Materials Science, general