Main description:

An increasing number of large-scale natural disasters have affected millions of people in recent years. Major earthquakes, floods, And hurricanes, have caused great destruction of property and loss of life, while forest fires, pipeline failures, and bombings have created equally devastating effects on a smaller scale. The increased threats are the topic of the Third International Conference on Disaster Management and Human Health Risk, convened so that experts on public health, security, and disaster management could share information. This book contains the papers presented at the conference. Topics covered include: Disaster Monitoring and Mitigation; Disaster Analysis; Emergency Preparedness; Critical Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Preparedness and Response; Risk Mitigation; Multihazard Risk Assessment; Learning from Disasters; Socio-Economic Issues.

Contents:

Contents Section 1: Disaster monitoring and mitigation Smart objects and wireless sensor networks for monitoring: sustainable technology in disaster management; Development of a spatially explicit vulnerability-resilience model for community level hazard mitigation enhancement; The use of social media by UK local resilience forums; Earthquake and tsunami recovery efforts in northeastern Japan Section 2: Disaster analysis Study on the development of the loss estimation method for urban flood in Korea; Relationship of debris flows owing to climate change: Korea's case; Site-specific soil microzonation for hazard resistant site and land use planning; Identification of microorganisms promoting debris flows caused by eutrophication of hillside ecosystems Section 3: Emergency preparedness A framework for organisational operational response and strategic decision making for long term flood preparedness in urban areas; Towards a demand forecast methodology for recurrent disasters; Revising a regional disaster management plan using ethnographic data; An integrated model of psychological preparedness for threat and impacts of climate change disasters; Healthcare providers: will they come to work during an influenza pandemic?; Managing public health expectations: the micro community model of bio-preparedness; Risk minimal routes for emergency cars; Emergency planning and visualization: the case of Miami-Dade County's Emergency Operations Center Section 4: Critical information and communication technologies for disaster preparedness and response (Special session organised by J. W. S. Liu) A linked-data based virtual repository for disaster management tools and applications; Physical-layer communication recovery for heterogeneous network; Landmark-based self-healing service recovery for distributed pub/sub services on disaster management and M2M systems; An approach to assess suitable lands for disaster mitigation; Participant selection for crowdsourcing disaster information; Trustworthy emergency information brokerage service (TIBS) Section 5: Risk mitigation Landslide risk management in Malaysia; Individualised risk communication of sediment-disaster evaluated using a psychological process model Section 6: Multihazard risk assessment (Special session organised by D. A. Novelo-Casanova) Integrated risk assessment to natural hazards: case study - Motozintla, Chiapas, Mexico; Bridging research, policy, and practice: development of an integrated research programme Section 7: Learning from disasters Public opinion guidance and science and technology dissemination for public health emergencies; Study of the liquefaction phenomenon due to an earthquake: case study of Urayasu city Section 8: Socio-economic issues Disaster management policy and conflict resolution: a case study of South Korea's dam construction; Development and validation of a stochastic disaster impact model; The impact of flood on the socio-economic status of residents of Wadata and Gado-villa communities in the Makurdi metropolitan area of Benue State, Nigeria; Community resilience factors to disaster in Saudi Arabia: the case of Makkah Province; Housing policy in Mexico and its impacts; Volunteers in emergency management: an investment in the future?