Improving Disaster Resilience And Mitigation It Means And Tools
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Improving Disaster Resilience And Mitigation It Means And Tools
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Author : Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-08
Improving Disaster Resilience And Mitigation It Means And Tools written by Horia-Nicolai Teodorescu and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-08 with Computers categories.
The focus of this volume is comprised of the fundamentals, models, and information technologies (IT) methods and tools for disaster prediction and mitigation. A more detailed list of topics includes mathematical and computational modeling of processes leading to or producing disasters, modeling of disaster effects, IT means for disaster mitigation, including data mining tools, knowledge-based and expert systems for use in disaster circumstances, GIS-based systems for disaster prevention and mitigation and equipment for disaster-prone areas. A specific type or class of disasters (natural or human-made), however will not be part of the main focus of this work. Instead, this book was conceived to offer a comprehensive, integrative view on disasters, seeking to determine what various disasters have in common. Because disaster resilience and mitigation involve humans, societies and cultures, not only technologies and economic models, special attention was paid in this volume to gain a comprehensive view on these issues, as a foundation of the IT tool design.
Disaster Resilience
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Author : National Academies
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2012-11-29
Disaster Resilience written by National Academies and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-29 with Science categories.
No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financial disasters in addition to natural hazards can all lead to large-scale consequences for the nation and its communities. Communities and the nation thus face difficult fiscal, social, cultural, and environmental choices about the best ways to ensure basic security and quality of life against hazards, deliberate attacks, and disasters. Beyond the unquantifiable costs of injury and loss of life from disasters, statistics for 2011 alone indicate economic damages from natural disasters in the United States exceeded $55 billion, with 14 events costing more than a billion dollars in damages each. One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience-the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative addresses the broad issue of increasing the nation's resilience to disasters. This book defines "national resilience", describes the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters, and frames the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States. It also provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience and outlines additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters. Additionally, the book's authoring committee makes recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States. Enhanced resilience allows better anticipation of disasters and better planning to reduce disaster losses-rather than waiting for an event to occur and paying for it afterward. Disaster Resilience confronts the topic of how to increase the nation's resilience to disasters through a vision of the characteristics of a resilient nation in the year 2030. Increasing disaster resilience is an imperative that requires the collective will of the nation and its communities. Although disasters will continue to occur, actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and economic burdens that disasters can cause.
Disaster Risk Management
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Author : Prof. Dr. Vladimir M. Cvetković
language : en
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Release Date : 2024-04-22
Disaster Risk Management written by Prof. Dr. Vladimir M. Cvetković and has been published by Babelcube Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-22 with Social Science categories.
The textbook is intended for students of basic and master academic studies, as well as to a wider professional audience (members of the emergency services, etc.), who are increasingly faced with the need for a more thorough understanding of the problem of a multidisciplinary approach in the identification process, disaster risk analysis and treatment. The content of the textbook is in line with the curriculum of the subject “Disaster Risk Management”, which is taught in the third year of basic academic studies of the Faculty of Security. In the writing of the textbooks, great attention was paid to meeting high standards in terms of scientific and professional and pedagogical and didactic requirements, and extensive scientific and professional material of all relevant foreign and domestic authors was used. Besides, the author used a fair treasure trove of his scholarly and professional papers, which have been scientifically verified by numerous international and national reviewers. Also, the author incorporated most of his research findings in the country and abroad into the text of the textbook to enrich it with scientifically verified facts. Also, invaluable experience in working with students has helped to release the textbook from the additional scientific reflection that would make it difficult to acquire basic knowledge in the field of disaster risk management. The first edition of the textbook also has its limitations, which are reflected in the insufficient theoretical development of the scientific discipline, which is relatively young and should contribute to creating additional conditions for the construction of the theory. I would like to emphasize that the textbook represents the first such publication published in the Serbian language in our region, which will greatly improve the knowledge and professional competencies of the general professional public.
Geo Sustainnovation For Resilient Society
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Author : Hemanta Hazarika
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-03-07
Geo Sustainnovation For Resilient Society written by Hemanta Hazarika and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-07 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book presents select proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies (CREST 2023), and focuses on sustainability, promotion of new ideas and innovations in design, construction and maintenance of geotechnical structures with the aim of contributing towards climate change adaptation and disaster resiliency to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It presents latest research, information, technological advancement, practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted in the field of geotechnical engineering for sustainable infrastructure towards climate change adaptation. This volume will be of interest to those in academia and industry alike.
Decision Making And Decision Support In The Information Era
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Author : Valentina Emilia Balas
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2024-08-26
Decision Making And Decision Support In The Information Era written by Valentina Emilia Balas and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-26 with Mathematics categories.
This book is a comprehensive and full-fledged presentation of how modern algorithmic tools and techniques with software implementations can provide an effective and efficient solution of a multitude of problems faced in real life. These problems range from all kinds of data analyses, medical data analyses, image analyses and recognitions, support of medical diagnoses, etc. to new concepts of smart towns and other environments. Emphasis will be on the role of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence and a synergistic collaboration between human beings and computer systems. Modern decision support systems are a main focus point.
System Analysis In Engineering And Control
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Author : Yuriy S. Vasiliev
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-04-16
System Analysis In Engineering And Control written by Yuriy S. Vasiliev and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-16 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book covers the results of research that has been obtained during the last decades by scholars representing several scientific schools working in the field of theory of systems and system analysis. In the book chapters, attention is paid to the development of the general theory of systems’ provisions, approaches, models, and methods of system analysis; such as the concepts of an open system and adaptive systems; the concepts of “the movable equilibrium” and “disequilibrium”, the approach of “growing” the system and its developing through innovations; the system-target approach, systems’ regularities; ontological, cognitive and logical-linguistic models of systems, etc. The book includes parts devoted to the general theoretical and philosophical-methodological problems of systems theory; methods and models of system analysis; innovation technologies in technical and socioeconomic systems; system analyses in the educational process, and higher education management. The materials of the book may be of interest to researchers and specialists working in the field of systems analysis, engineering, computer technologies, including human–computer interaction in socio-technical systems; for the representatives of the academic and engineering society.
Agriculture Food Systems To 2050 Global Trends Challenges And Opportunities
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Author : Rachid Serraj
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2018-11-08
Agriculture Food Systems To 2050 Global Trends Challenges And Opportunities written by Rachid Serraj and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-08 with Business & Economics categories.
This book features a comprehensive foresight assessment, exploring the pressures — threats as well as opportunities — on the global agriculture & food systems between now and 2050. The overarching aim is to help readers understand the context, by analyzing global trends and anticipating change for better planning and constructing pathways from the present to the future by focusing on the right questions and problems. The book contextualizes the role of international agricultural research in addressing the complex challenges posed by UN 2030 Agenda and beyond, and identifies the decisions that scientific leaders, donors and policy makers need to take today, and in the years ahead, to ensure that a global population rising to nine billion or more combined with rising incomes and changing diets can be fed sustainably and equitably, in the face of the growing climate threats.
Fifty Years Of Fuzzy Logic And Its Applications
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Author : Dan E. Tamir
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-05-23
Fifty Years Of Fuzzy Logic And Its Applications written by Dan E. Tamir and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-23 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book presents a comprehensive report on the evolution of Fuzzy Logic since its formulation in Lotfi Zadeh’s seminal paper on “fuzzy sets,” published in 1965. In addition, it features a stimulating sampling from the broad field of research and development inspired by Zadeh’s paper. The chapters, written by pioneers and prominent scholars in the field, show how fuzzy sets have been successfully applied to artificial intelligence, control theory, inference, and reasoning. The book also reports on theoretical issues; features recent applications of Fuzzy Logic in the fields of neural networks, clustering, data mining and software testing; and highlights an important paradigm shift caused by Fuzzy Logic in the area of uncertainty management. Conceived by the editors as an academic celebration of the fifty years’ anniversary of the 1965 paper, this work is a must-have for students and researchers willing to get an inspiring picture of the potentialities, limitations, achievements and accomplishments of Fuzzy Logic-based systems.
Information Fusion For Cyber Security Analytics
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Author : Izzat M Alsmadi
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-10-21
Information Fusion For Cyber Security Analytics written by Izzat M Alsmadi and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book highlights several gaps that have not been addressed in existing cyber security research. It first discusses the recent attack prediction techniques that utilize one or more aspects of information to create attack prediction models. The second part is dedicated to new trends on information fusion and their applicability to cyber security; in particular, graph data analytics for cyber security, unwanted traffic detection and control based on trust management software defined networks, security in wireless sensor networks & their applications, and emerging trends in security system design using the concept of social behavioral biometric. The book guides the design of new commercialized tools that can be introduced to improve the accuracy of existing attack prediction models. Furthermore, the book advances the use of Knowledge-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to complement existing IDS technologies. It is aimed towards cyber security researchers.
Testing The Event Witnessing Status Of Microbloggers From Evidence In Their Micro Blogs
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Author : Marie Truelove
language : en
Publisher: Infinite Study
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Testing The Event Witnessing Status Of Microbloggers From Evidence In Their Micro Blogs written by Marie Truelove and has been published by Infinite Study this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
This paper demonstrates a framework of processes for identifying potential witnesses of events from evidence they post to social media. The research defines original evidence models for micro-blog content sources, the relative uncertainty of different evidence types, and models for testing evidence by combination.