书目名称 | Disaster Forensics | 副标题 | Understanding Root C | 编辑 | Anthony J. Masys | 视频video | | 概述 | Presents state of the art ‘forensic analysis’ approaches to understanding the root causes of disasters and thereby presents insights in preventing, preparing for and managing disasters.Shows how disas | 丛书名称 | Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book aims to uncover the root causes of natural and man-made disasters by going beyond the typical reports and case studies conducted post-disaster. It opens the black box of disasters by presenting ‘forensic analysis approaches’ to disasters, thereby revealing the complex causality that characterizes them and explaining how and why hazards do, or do not, become disasters. This yields ‘systemic’ strategies for managing disasters..Recently the global threat landscape has seen the emergence of high impact, low probability events. Events like Hurricane Katrina, the Great Japan Earthquake and tsunami, Hurricane Sandy, Super Typhoon Haiyan, global terrorist activities have become the new norm. Extreme events challenge our understanding regarding the interdependencies and complexity of the disaster aetiology and are often referred to as Black Swans. Between 2002 and 2011, there were 4130 disasters recorded that resulted from natural hazards around the world. In these, 1,117,527 people perished and a minimum of US$1,195 billion in losses were reported. In the year 2011 alone, 302 disasters claimed 29,782 lives; affected 206 million people and inflicted damages worth a minimum of esti | 出版日期 | Book 2016 | 关键词 | Case studies of disasters; Complexity of the disaster aetiology; Forensic approaches to disaster study | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41849-0 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-82445-1 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-41849-0Series ISSN 1613-5113 Series E-ISSN 2363-9466 | issn_series | 1613-5113 | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 |
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