Disaster management : enabling resilience /: enabling resilience. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Anthony Masys, editor.
• Editors: Masys, Anthony
• Contents: Part 1 -- 1. Resilience Undefined. A Framework for Interdisciplinary Communication and Application for real; World Problems -- 2. Disaster Management, control and resilience -- Part 2. Urban Domain -- 3. Futuristic smart architecture for a rapid disaster response -- 4. Building in resilience. Long-term considerations in the design and production of residential buildings in Israel -- 5. Urban Resilience & Sustainability. The role of a local resilience forum in England -- 6. Wicked Problems Framework. Architectural Lessons from recent urban disasters -- Part 3. Cyber Domain -- 7. Architectures for Cyber-Security Incident Reporting in Safety-Critical Systems -- 8. The Cyber-ecosystem. Enabling resilience through the Comprehensive Approach -- Part 4. Organizational/ Social Domain -- 9. Enabling Resilience. An examination of high reliability organizations and safety culture through the lens of Appreciative Inquiry -- 10. Unintended Consequences. What lessons can risk-managers learn from the use of armed Remotely Piloted Vehicles for counter-insurgency in Pakistan? -- 11. Extra-fragile in disaster. People with disabilities in a bombarded zone -- 12. The application of quality of life metrics -- 13. Defining and negotiating a shared responsibility for disaster resilience -- Part 5. Socio-ecological Domain -- 14. Wildland Fire Management. Movement towards enabling resiliency? -- 15. Case-Study. Vulnerabilities co-evolutionary dynamics in Morelia Michoacan, Mexico.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 338 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 363.348; Environment; Emergency management; Environmental management; Geology; Business ethics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Emergency management; Science -- Global Warming & Climate Change; Nature -- Natural Disasters; Business & Economics -- Business Ethics; Technology & Engineering -- Engineering (General); The environment; Natural disasters; Business ethics & social responsibility; Security & fire alarm systems; Technology & Engineering -- Environmental -- General; Environmental management; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319088198; 3319088181; 9783319088181
• Related ISBNs: 331908819X; 9783319088181
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed December 12, 2014).
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