Earthquake Disasters
Prevention and Reconstruction
- 190 pages
- English
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Earthquake Disasters
Prevention and Reconstruction
About this book
This book explores practices and approaches on pre-disaster prevention and post-disaster reconstruction for vulnerable countries and areas enhancing earthquake disaster resilience.
Destructive earthquakes have frequently occurred in urban or rural areas around the world, causing severe damage on human societies. Pre-earthquake prevention and post-earthquake reconstruction effect the disaster resilience building and long-term development of the affected communities and areas. In recent years, researchers from around the world have made a lot of efforts to study on the theme 'earthquake disaster prevention and reconstruction'.
The chapters in this edited volume contribute to the literature of earthquake disaster research from scientific, social and institutional aspects. These interdisciplinary studies mainly focus on human and policy dimensions of earthquake disaster, such as earthquake risk mitigation, social-physical resilience building, resilience capability assessment, healthcare surge capacity, house reconstruction, the roles of schools, households, civil societies and public participation in earthquake disaster prevention and reconstruction. The authors come from several counties, including China, Bangladesh, Iran, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Indonesia, covering the cases from those countries prone to earthquakes.
These nine distinctive chapters have been elaborately selected and integrated from the international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Hazards.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Citation Information
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Towards an earthquake-resilient world: from post-disaster reconstruction to pre-disaster prevention
- 1 The geo-genetic status of earthquake-related hazards and the role of human and policy dimensions in impact mitigation
- 2 Understanding the causes of vulnerabilities for enhancing social-physical resilience: lessons from the Wenchuan earthquake
- 3 Assessing the capabilities of resilience against earthquake in the city of Yasuj, Iran
- 4 The role of schools in helping communities copes with earthquake disasters: the case of the 2010–2011 New Zealand earthquakes
- 5 Devastating earthquakes facilitating civil societies in developing countries: across-national analysis
- 6 Public participation in NGO-oriented communities for disaster prevention and mitigation (N-CDPM) in the Longmen Shan fault area during the Wenchuan and Lushan earthquake periods
- 7 Earthquake preparedness of households in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: a perceptual study
- 8 Learning lessons from the 2011 Van Earthquake to enhance healthcare surge capacity in Turkey
- 9 Redistributing vulnerabilities: house reconstruction following the 2006 Central Java earthquake
- Index