Overview
- Provides an overview on technologies for disaster monitoring
- Contains many applications of recent technologies
- Helps to understand disaster management
Part of the book series: Earth and Environmental Sciences Library (EESL)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Geophysical Disasters
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Hydrological Disasters
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Climatological and Meteorological Disasters
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About this book
This book explains to governments, decision makers and disaster professionals the potential uses of recent technologies for disaster monitoring and risk reduction based on the knowledge and experience of prominent experts/researchers in the relevant fields. It discusses the application of recent technological developments for emerging disaster risks in today's societies and deliberates on the various aspects of disaster risk reduction strategies, especially through sustainable community resilience and responses. This book consists of selected invited papers on disaster management, which focus on community resilience and responses towards disaster risk reduction based on experiences, and closely examines the coordinated research activities involving all stakeholders, especially the communities at risk. Many regions of the world and aspects of disaster risk and its management are covered. It is described how recent technologies will support better understanding and actionto reduce the number and impact of disasters in future. The principal audience for this book is researchers, urban planners, policy makers, as well as students.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Recent Technologies for Disaster Management and Risk Reduction
Book Subtitle: Sustainable Community Resilience & Responses
Editors: Praveen Kumar Rai, Prafull Singh, Varun Narayan Mishra
Series Title: Earth and Environmental Sciences Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76116-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76115-8Published: 22 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76118-9Published: 23 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76116-5Published: 21 August 2021
Series ISSN: 2730-6674
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6682
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 479
Number of Illustrations: 30 b/w illustrations, 157 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Environmental Management, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Analytical Chemistry