Dynamics of Risk - Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events

Zusatztext "Winner of the Don K. Price Award, Science, Technology & Environmental Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" Informationen zum Autor Louise K. Comfort is professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and former director of the Center for Disaster Management at the University of Pittsburgh. Her previous books include Shared Risk: Complex Systems in Seismic Response . Klappentext 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 the book'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. The book 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, the book 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. Zusammenfassung 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 destructiv...

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• Authors: Louise K Comfort, Louise K. Comfort, Comfort Louise K.
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780691165370
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16537-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Princeton Studies in Complexity; Princeton Studies in Complexit; Princeton Studies in Complexit; Princeton Studies in Complexity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Political science & theory, Social impact of disasters, Political science and theory, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)