Disaster Management: Enabling Resilience

✍ Scribed by Anthony Masys (eds.)

Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 342
Series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The present work will discuss relevant theoretical frameworks and applications pertaining to enabling resilience within the risk, crisis and disaster management domain. The contributions to this book focus on resilience thinking along 4 broad themes: Urban Domain; Cyber Domain; Organizational/Social domain; and Socio-ecological domain. This book would serve as a valuable reference for courses on risk, crisis and disaster management, international development, social innovation and resilience. This will be of particular interest to those working in the risk, crisis and disaster management domain as it will provide valuable insights into enabling resilience. This book will be well positioned to inform disaster management professionals, policy makers and academics on strategies and perspectives regarding disaster resilience.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Resilience Undefined: A Framework for Interdisciplinary Communication and Application to Real-World Problems....Pages 3-20
Disaster Management, Control, and Resilience....Pages 21-36
Front Matter....Pages 37-37
Futuristic Smart Architecture for a Rapid Disaster Response....Pages 39-64
Building in Resilience: Long-term Considerations in the Design and Production of Residential Buildings in Israel....Pages 65-90
Urban Resilience and Sustainability: The Role of a Local Resilience Forum in England....Pages 91-107
Wicked Problems Framework: Architectural Lessons from Recent Urban Disasters....Pages 109-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Architectures for Cyber-Security Incident Reporting in Safety-Critical Systems....Pages 127-141
The Cyber-Ecosystem Enabling Resilience Through the Comprehensive Approach....Pages 143-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Enabling Resilience: An Examination of High Reliability Organizations and Safety Culture Through the Lens of Appreciative Inquiry....Pages 157-176
Unintended Consequences. What Lessons Can Risk-Managers Learn from the Use of Armed Remotely Piloted Vehicles for Counter-Insurgency in Pakistan?....Pages 177-199
Extra-Fragile in Disaster: People with Disabilities in a Bombarded Zone....Pages 201-226
Disaster Management: Enabling Resilience....Pages 227-265
Defining and Negotiating a Shared Responsibility for Disaster Resilience....Pages 267-283
Front Matter....Pages 285-285
Wildland Fire Management: Movement Towards Enabling Resiliency?....Pages 287-315
Vulnerabilities and Co-evolutionary Dynamics in Morelia Michoacan, Mexico: A Case Study....Pages 317-335
Back Matter....Pages 337-338

✦ Subjects

Environmental Management; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; Natural Hazards; Climate Change Management and Policy; Non-Profit Enterprises/Corporate Social Responsibility; Security Science and Technology

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