TY - BOOK ID - 74395176 TI - Approaches to Managing Disaster : Assessing Hazards, Emergencies and Disaster Impacts AU - John Tiefenbacher AU - Tiefenbacher, John PY - 2012 SN - 9535143239 953510294X PB - IntechOpen DB - UniCat KW - Emergency management. KW - Consequence management (Emergency management) KW - Disaster planning KW - Disaster preparedness KW - Disaster prevention KW - Disaster relief KW - Disasters KW - Emergencies KW - Emergency management KW - Emergency planning KW - Emergency preparedness KW - Management KW - Public safety KW - First responders KW - Planning KW - Preparedness KW - Prevention KW - Physical Sciences KW - Engineering and Technology KW - Natural Disaster KW - Earth and Planetary Sciences KW - Emergency Management UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:74395176 AB - Approaches to Managing Disaster - Assessing Hazards, Emergencies and Disaster Impacts demonstrates the array of information that is critical for improving disaster management. The book reflects major management components of the disaster continuum (the nature of risk, hazard, vulnerability, planning, response and adaptation) in the context of threats that derive from both nature and technology. The chapters include a selection of original research reports by an array of international scholars focused either on specific locations or on specific events. The chapters are ordered according to the phases of emergencies and disasters. The text reflects the disciplinary diversity found within disaster management and the challenges presented by the co-mingling of science and social science in their collective efforts to promote improvements in the techniques, approaches, and decision-making by emergency-response practitioners and the public. This text demonstrates the growing complexity of disasters and their management, as well as the tests societies face every day. ER -