The Dynamics of Risk : : Changing Technologies and Collective Action in Seismic Events / / Louise K. Comfort.
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 com...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Complexity ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 20 b/w illus. 43 tables. 7 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FIGURES
- TABLES
- PREFACE
- 1. Redefining Risk on a Global Scale
- 2. Risk in Complex Systems
- 3. Assessing Risk in Complex Systems: DATA, METHODS, AND MEASURE MEN T
- 4. Risk in Practice
- 5. Toward an Auto-adaptive System: The 2013 Lushan County, China, Earthquake
- 6. Operative Adaptive Systems: 1999 Duzce, Turkey; 2009 Padang, Indonesia; 2011 Tohoku, Japan; and 2015 Nepal Response and Recovery Systems
- 7. Emergent Adaptive Systems: 1999 Marmara, Turkey; 1999 Chi Chi, Taiwan; 2005 Pakistan; and 2008 Wenchuan, China, Earthquake Response Systems
- 8. Nonadaptive Systems: 2001 Bhuj, Gujarat, India, Earthquake; 2004 Sumatra, Indonesia, Earthquake/Tsunami; and 2010 Haïti Earthquake Response Systems
- 9. Evolving Patterns of System Response
- 10. The Logic of Resilience
- Appendix I: Tables of Transactions by Classes of Adaptation
- Appendix II: Sources of Electronic Data, 2013 Lushan Earthquake
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX