Science of Societal Safety Living at Times of Risks and Disasters

Science of Societal Safety Living at Times of Risks and Disasters / edited by Seiji Abe, Mamoru Ozawa, Yoshiaki Kawata.

This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and security problems in our society involve not only e...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Abe, Seiji (Editor), Ozawa, Mamoru (Editor), Kawata, Yoshiaki (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Trust, Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban.
Quality control.
Reliability.
Industrial safety.
Fire prevention.
Terrorism.
Environmental policy.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I Human Societies and Societal Safety Sciences
  • Chapter 1 What are Societal Safety Sciences
  • Chapter 2 Advancement of Scientific Technologies and Human Societies
  • Chapter 3 Contemporary Societies and Risk
  • Chapter 4 Modern Societies and Establishment of Academia
  • Part II Events that Threaten Human and its Societies
  • Chapter 5 Human, Nature, and Artificial Products
  • Chapter 6 Natural Disasters, Safety, and Security
  • Chapter 7 Angles of Social Disasters and Damages
  • Chapter 8 Environmental Risks
  • Chapter 9 Wars, Crimes, and Terrorism
  • Part III Basic Statistics of Risk Analysis
  • Chapter 10 Methods in Risk Analysis
  • Chapter 11 Risk Management
  • Chapter 12 Risk Communication and Disaster Information
  • Chapter 13 Crisis Management
  • IV Social Mechanisms of Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Minimization
  • Chapter 14 Public Systems for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Minimization
  • Chapter 15 Government Activities in Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
  • Chapter 16 Civil Systems for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Minimization
  • Chapter 17 Supporting disaster victims
  • Part V For Advancement of Societal Safety Sciences
  • Chapter 18 Governance and Forming Agreement for Societal Safety Sciences
  • Chapter 19 For Deepening Societal Safety Sciences.

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