Science of Societal Safety Living at Times of Risks and Disasters /

This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and security problems in our society involve not only e...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Abe, Seiji (Editor), Ozawa, Mamoru (Editor), Kawata, Yoshiaki (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Trust, Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I Human Societies and Societal Safety Sciences
  • Chapter 1 What are Societal Safety Sciences
  • Chapter 2 Advancement of Scientific Technologies and Human Societies
  • Chapter 3 Contemporary Societies and Risk
  • Chapter 4 Modern Societies and Establishment of Academia
  • Part II Events that Threaten Human and its Societies
  • Chapter 5 Human, Nature, and Artificial Products
  • Chapter 6 Natural Disasters, Safety, and Security
  • Chapter 7 Angles of Social Disasters and Damages
  • Chapter 8 Environmental Risks
  • Chapter 9 Wars, Crimes, and Terrorism
  • Part III Basic Statistics of Risk Analysis
  • Chapter 10 Methods in Risk Analysis
  • Chapter 11 Risk Management
  • Chapter 12 Risk Communication and Disaster Information
  • Chapter 13 Crisis Management
  • IV Social Mechanisms of Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Minimization
  • Chapter 14 Public Systems for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, andMinimization
  • Chapter 15 Government Activities in Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
  • Chapter 16 Civil Systems for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Minimization
  • Chapter 17 Supporting disaster victims
  • Part V For Advancement of Societal Safety Sciences
  • Chapter 18 Governance and Forming Agreement for Societal Safety Sciences
  • Chapter 19 For Deepening Societal Safety Sciences.