Description: Dynamics of Risk : Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events, Hardcover by Comfort, Louise K., ISBN 069116536X, ISBN-13 9780691165363, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly interdependent systems of transportation, communication, energy, and finance. In this important book, Louise Comfort provides an unprecedented examination of how twelve communities in nine countries responded to destructive earthquakes between 1999 and 2015. And many of th’s lessons can also be applied to other large-scale risks.
The Dynamics of Risk sets the global problem of seismic risk in the framework of complex adaptive systems to explore how the consequences of such events ripple across jurisdictions, communities, and organizations in complex societies, triggering unexpected alliances but also exposing social, economic, and legal gaps. Th assesses how the networks of organizations involved in response and recovery adapted and acted collectively after the twelve earthquakes it examines. It describes how advances in information technology enabled some communities to anticipate seismic risk better and to manage response and recovery operations more effectively, decreasing losses. Finally, th shows why investing substantively in global information infrastructure would create shared awareness of seismic risk and make postdisaster relief more effective and less expensive.
The result is a landmark study of how to improve the way we prepare for and respond to earthquakes and other disasters in our ever-more-complex world.
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Book Title: Dynamics of Risk : Changing Technologies and Collective Action in
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Dynamics of Risk : Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic events
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subject: Public Policy / General, Public Affairs & Administration, Geopolitics, Earth Sciences / Geology
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.8 in
Author: Louise K. Comfort
Subject Area: Political Science, Science
Series: Princeton Studies in Complexity Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
