Successful response starts with a map: improving geospatial support for disas…

Committee on Planning for Catastrophe: a Blueprint for Improving Geospatial Data, Tools, and Infrastructure, Mapping Science Committee, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Introduction to international disaster management

Offers practitioners, educators and students with a comprehensive overview of the players, processes and special issues involved in the management of large-scale natural and technological disasters. This book discusses special issues encountered in the management of international disasters.

The handbook of disaster and emergency policies and institutions

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement planning and prev…

Geo-information for disaster management

Geo-information technology offers an opportunity to support disaster management: industrial accidents, road collisions, complex emergencies, earthquakes, fires, floods and similar catastrophes (for example the recent huge disaster with the Tsunami in South-East Asia on 26 December 2004). Access to needed information, facilitation of the interoperability of emergency services, and provision of h…

Disaster management handbook

Introduces the theoretical constructs and conceptual foundations of disaster management. This book examines case studies of natural disasters around the world, and compares and contrasts the efficacy of different management strategies from national, provincial, and local governments, as well as non-governmental agencies.

Disaster management and preparedness

Detailing methods for preparing organizations for disasters, this book discusses tried and true tactics and areas often overlooked during the reactive and post-disaster phases. It addresses special considerations important in planning for disaster management, from chemical spills, floods, and terrorist attacks to catastrophic events.

Disaster management and civil society: earthquake relief in Japan, Turkey and…

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9781845110536

Collation

xiv, 142 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series Title

International library of postwar reconstruction and development ; 1

Call Number

[TIN-LIB-97]