Earthquake disasters : prevention and reconstruction /: prevention and reconstruction. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jiuping Xu, Yi Lu, Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell.
• Editors: Xu, Jiuping; Lu, Yi; Penning-Rowsell, Edmund C (Edmund Charles), 1946-
• Contents: Introduction: Towards an earthquake-resilient world: from post-disaster reconstruction to pre-disaster prevention Jiuping Xu and Yi Lu 1. The geo-genetic status of earthquake-related hazards and the role of human and policy dimensions in impact mitigation Aftab Alam Khan 2. Understanding the causes of vulnerabilities for enhancing social-physical resilience: lessons from the Wenchuan earthquake Xuteng Zhang, Wenzhe Tang, Yulei Huang, Qingzhen Zhang, Colin F. Duffield, Jing Li and Enzhi Wang 3. Assessing the capabilities of resilience against earthquake in the city of Yasuj, Iran Amir Bastaminia, Masoud Safaeepour, Yousef Tazesh, Mohammad Reza Rezaei, Mohammad Hossein Saraei and Maryam Dastoorpoor 4. The role of schools in helping communities copes with earthquake disasters: the case of the 2010–2011 New Zealand earthquakes Carol Mutch 5. Devastating earthquakes facilitating civil societies in developing countries: across-national analysis Yuan Yuan, Sima Zomorodian, Muhammad Hashim and Yi Lu 6. Public participation in NGO-oriented communities for disaster prevention and mitigation (N-CDPM) in the Longmen Shan fault area during the Wenchuan and Lushan earthquake periods Dun Xu, Barrett Hazeltine, Jiuping Xu and Ashutosh Prasad 7. Earthquake preparedness of households in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: a perceptual study Mohammad Tahlil Azim and Mohammad Mazharul Islam 8. Learning lessons from the 2011 Van Earthquake to enhance healthcare surge capacity in Turkey Nebil Achour, Federica Pascale, Andrew D. F. Price, Francesco Polverino, Kurtulus Aciksari, Masakatsu Miyajima, Dogac Niyazi Özüçelik and Masaho Yoshida 9. Redistributing vulnerabilities: house reconstruction following the 2006 Central Java earthquake Jens Seeberg and Retna Siwi Padmawati
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.3495; Earthquakes; Emergency management; Hazard mitigation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000462470; 9781000462401; 9781003173328
• Related ISBNs: 9781032002484
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