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Title
City evacuations [electronic resource] : an interdisciplinary approach / John Preston...[and 7 more], editors.
ISBN
9783662438770 electronic book
3662438771 electronic book
9783662438763
Published
Heidelberg : Springer, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 128 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-662-43877-0 doi
Call Number
HV554
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.34/8068
Summary
Evacuating a city is a complex problem that involves issues of governance, preparedness education, warning, information sharing, population dynamics, resilience and recovery. As natural and anthropogenic threats to cities grow, it is an increasingly pressing problem for policy makers and practitioners. The book is the result of a unique interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers in the physical and social sciences to consider how an interdisciplinary approach can help plan for large scale evacuations. It draws on perspectives from physics, mathematics, organisation theory, economics, sociology and education. Importantly it goes beyond disciplinary boundaries and considers how interdisciplinary methods are necessary to approach a complex problem involving human actors and increasingly complex communications and transportation infrastructures. Using real world case studies and modelling the book considers new approaches to evacuation dynamics. It addresses questions of complexity, not only in terms of theory, but examining the latest challenges for cities and emergency responders. Factors such as social media, information quality and visualisation techniques are examined to consider the 'new' dynamics of warning and informing, evacuation and recovery.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 5, 2014).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783662438763
City Evacuations: their pedagogy and the need for an inter-disciplinary approach
Unpacking the impacts of social media upon crisis communication and city evacuation
Simulation of information spreading following a Crisis
Quantitative decision-making rules for the next generation of smarter evacuations
Decentralized optimisation of resource allocation in disaster management
A Semi-automated Display for Geotagged Text
Conclusion: evacuations and transmedia vulnerability.
