Overview
- Centered on the disaster management cycle
- Draws on many recent and essential case studies
- Provides extensive social and economic orientation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- Emergency Management Organizations
- Hazard Assessments
- Natural Disaster Risk Management
- Responsibility of Geoscience
- Risk Assessments
- Risk Communication
- Risk Communications
- Risk Management
- Risk Splitting
- Vulnerability Assessments
- Vulnerability and Risk
- insurance
- quality control, reliability, safety and risk
About this book
This textbook provides a thorough introduction to natural disaster risk management. Many aspects of disaster risk management, such as those involved in earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, avalanches and mudslides call for similar prevention and preparedness instruments, management concepts, and countermeasures. This textbook assumes the viewpoint of a regional disaster risk manager who is responsible for a certain area, and for making the lives of the people who live there safer, regardless of the type of natural disaster that may occur. The same holds true for boosting preparedness and awareness in the population at risk. The book includes numerous examples of hazard mitigation concepts and techniques, as well as ways of intensively involving the local population in prevention schemes at an early stage. Furthermore, it provides an in-depth examination of the function of risk communication, both as an instrument for disseminating official information and as a function of publicmedia. In closing, a chapter on risk splitting offers insights into insurance-based models for risk financing. This comprehensive book is a must-read for all students, researchers and practitioners dealing with natural disaster risk management.
Reviews
“Ranke … has written a very timely, well-organized, comprehensive textbook that will be remarkably valuable to earth scientists in many disciplines throughout the world. Climatologists, hydrologists, geophysicists, volcanologists, and sedimentologists are just some specialists who will find this book an important resource. … This guide and accompanying free software will be very useful to students studying natural disaster risks. … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (M. S. Field, Choice, Vol. 53 (9), May, 2016)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Natural Disaster Risk Management
Book Subtitle: Geosciences and Social Responsibility
Authors: Ulrich Ranke
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20675-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-20674-5Published: 30 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35186-5Published: 01 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-20675-2Published: 18 September 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 514
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 117 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Political Communication, Insurance, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk