An all-encompassing guide to environmental planning for earthquakes. Discusses prediction and preparation as well as emergency management and recovery. Examines how to enact and evaluate protection strategies. Considers site selection, seismic hazard assessment and improving earthquake resistance of buildings. Addresses loss estimation, risk and vulnerability analysis. Assesses possibilities for reducing earthquake disasters. Includes recommendations for further reading.
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An all-encompassing guide to environmental planning for earthquakes. Discusses prediction and preparation as well as emergency management and recovery. Examines how to enact and evaluate protection strategies. Considers site selection, seismic hazard assessment and improving earthquake resistance of buildings. Addresses loss estimation, risk and vulnerability analysis. Assesses possibilities for reducing earthquake disasters. Includes recommendations for further reading.
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Since the publication of the successful first edition of Earthquake Protection there have been 110 lethal earthquakes, killing 130 000 people; there have also been significant developments in the field of earthquake risk management, particularly in the modelling and analysis of risk for insurance and financial services. Furthermore, major earthquake disasters, such as the 1994 Northridge earthquake in California, the 1995 Kobe earthquake in Japan and the 1999 Kocaeli earthquake in Turkey have occurred. The experience and knowledge gained through these events have improved our understanding of how to manage, mitigate and work towards the prevention of similar catastrophes. The 1990s were in fact the costliest decade on record in terms of disaster management due to such seismic events, placing unprecedented pressure on the insurance industry in particular, and changing its view of earthquake protection.
Significantly revised and updated, this second edition continues to provide a comprehensive overview of how to reduce the impact of earthquakes on people and property, and implement best practice in managing the consequences of such disasters. It also includes significant coverage of the techniques of modelling earthquake catastrophe. Each chapter deals with a separate aspect of protection, and covers a wide range of economic and social conditions, drawing on the authors' considerable personal experience and with reference to real life examples.
Key features include:
- Recent event coverage
- Modern developments in the theory and practice of planning and engineering loss estimation techniques, along with new engineering techniques such as microzonation and hazard-mapping
- Historic buildings experience
- An entirely new chapter on 'Earthquakes and Finance'
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In spite of the huge technical achievements of the last century - which have given us skyscraper cities, fast and cheap air travel and instant global telecommunications, as well as eradicating many major diseases and providing the potential to feed our burgeoning population - over much of the world the threat of earthquakes has remained untamed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
future earthquake losses, parameterless scale, weak masonry buildings, earthquake protection measures, craftworker builders, building improvement programmes, repair cost ratio, strengthening existing buildings, cost per saved life, peak horizontal ground acceleration, seismic source zones, loss estimation methodology, lethal earthquakes, earthquake performance, lethality ratio, loss stakeholders, rubble stone masonry, seismic risk analysis, earthquake vulnerability, accelerated reconstruction, weaker buildings, earthquake resistance, seismic vulnerability, ground motion parameter, fragility curves Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Mexico City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Zealand, United Nations, New York, Applied Technology Council, European Macroseismic Scale, John Wiley, Red Cross, California Earthquake Authority, Intermediate Technology Publications, Oxford University Press, Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Continuous Critical, International Building Code, Loma Prieta, North America, Risk Management Solutions, Severity of Earthquake Ground Motion, The Izmir Insurance Company, Tunc Tunali New!
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In spite of the huge technical achievements of the last century - which have given us skyscraper cities, fast and cheap air travel and instant global telecommunications, as well as eradicating many major diseases and providing the potential to feed our burgeoning population - over much of the world the threat of earthquakes has remained untamed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
future earthquake losses, parameterless scale, weak masonry buildings, earthquake protection measures, craftworker builders, building improvement programmes, repair cost ratio, strengthening existing buildings, cost per saved life, peak horizontal ground acceleration, seismic source zones, loss estimation methodology, lethal earthquakes, earthquake performance, lethality ratio, loss stakeholders, rubble stone masonry, seismic risk analysis, earthquake vulnerability, accelerated reconstruction, weaker buildings, earthquake resistance, seismic vulnerability, ground motion parameter, fragility curves Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Mexico City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Zealand, United Nations, New York, Applied Technology Council, European Macroseismic Scale, John Wiley, Red Cross, California Earthquake Authority, Intermediate Technology Publications, Oxford University Press, Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Continuous Critical, International Building Code, Loma Prieta, North America, Risk Management Solutions, Severity of Earthquake Ground Motion, The Izmir Insurance Company, Tunc Tunali New!
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- Disasters and Development by Frederick C. Cuny on 4 pages
- Earthquake Resistant Design: A Manual for Engineers and Architects by David J. Dowrick on page 261, page 309, and Back Matter
- The Mathematics of Natural Catastrophes by G. Woo on page 352, and Back Matter
- Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance (Studies in Risk and Uncertainty) by Paul K. Freeman on page 67, and Back Matter
- Disaster Mitigation by Andrew Maskrey on page 232, and Back Matter
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- Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (Vintage) by Edward Tenner in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World by Mark Pelling on page 154, and page 212
- An Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes and Earth Structure by Seth Stein on page 17, and Back Matter
- Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World by Mark Pelling on page 212
- Implications of Recent Earthquakes on Seismic Risk by A. S. Elnashai on page 89
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