Disaster Resilient Cities. Concepts and Practical Examples

✍ Scribed by Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Shinji Sato, Kenichi Tsukahara

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 190
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Disaster Resilient Cities: Concepts and Practical Examples discusses natural disasters, their complexity, and the exploration of different ways of thinking regarding the resilience of structures. The book provides a blueprint for structural designers to better prepare structures for all types of natural hazards during the design stage.

Brief and readable, this book analyzes various examples of disaster damage from earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods, together with their causal mechanisms. Practical methods to plan and design structures based on their regions, cities, as well as the particular countermeasures are also included for study.

• Proposes new methods and policies for enhancing structural resilience for key urban infrastructure
• Includes examples of disaster damage as a result of earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and their structural countermeasures
• Presents case studies that cover specific mega disasters, such as the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, Super Typhoon Hyan, and Bangkok flood

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter,Contributors,Copyright,PrefaceEntitled to full textChapter 1: IntroductionIntroduction, Page 1
Chapter 1.1 - Introduction—Why Is Resilience Lost?, Pages 3-10
Introduction, Pages 11-12
Chapter 2.1 - The Great East Japan Earthquake, Pages 13-20
Chapter 2.2 - Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, Pages 21-29
Chapter 2.3 - Damage From and Resilience Against the 2011 Thai Flood, Pages 31-39
Chapter 2.4 - Disaster Resilience Learned from the 2007 Earthquake in Peru, Pages 41-50
Chapter 2.5 - Loss of Resilience of Mongolian Nomadic Life Due to Urbanization, Pages 51-61
Chapter 2.6 - Decreasing Disaster-Recovery Capacity of Traditional Wooden Houses in Japan, Pages 63-72
Introduction, Pages 73-74
Chapter 3.1 - Understanding Spatial Variations of Tsunami Flooding, Pages 75-83
Chapter 3.2 - Understanding Tsunami Damage as “Lost Stock”, Pages 85-97
Chapter 3.3 - Measuring Damage and Recovery Status of Residents in Terms of “Quality of Life”, Pages 99-108
Introduction, Pages 109-110
Chapter 4.1 - Optimal Seawall Height Based on Risk Analysis with Land Use and Soft Measures, Pages 111-120
Chapter 4.2 - Earthquake Damage Risk Evaluation by Micro Geo Data, Pages 121-134
Chapter 4.3 - Consensus Building for a Resilient Society: Utilization of Big Data, Pages 135-147
Chapter 4.4 - Resilient Regional Grand Design Based on Quality of Life, Pages 149-155
Chapter 4.5 - Paradigm Change in Flood Protection Strategies for Enhancing Resilience, Pages 157-163
Chapter 4.6 - Smart Shrink Strategy and the Fiscal System, Pages 165-186
Index, Pages 187-191

✦ Subjects

Natural disasters;Japan;Resilience (Ecology);Japan;Natural disasters;Resilience (Ecology);Japan