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  title info:
    title: Earthquakes and Their Impact on Society
  name:
    name part: D'Amico, Sebastiano.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2016
    edition: 1st ed. 2016.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXIV, 706 p. 348 illus., 247 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book provides an integrated approach to the assessment of seismic hazards. The reduction of losses expected by future earthquakes is probably the most important contribution of seismology to society. Large earthquakes occurred in densely populated areas highlight the dramatic inadequacy of a massive portion of the buildings demonstrating the high risks of modern industrial societies. Building earthquake-resistant structures and retrofitting old buildings on a national scale can be extremely expensive and can represent an economic challenge even for developed western countries. Earthquakes can cause also several psychological problems due to the fact that such kind of disasters will result in casualties, collapsing of houses, strategic buildings and facilities and deeply affect a community. Moreover in our society it is necessary to properly plan emergency responses and rescues taking into account any possible secondary effect in order to avoid more casualties.
  table of contents: Introduction on seismicity -- Earthquake research and analysis -- Seismic hazard and risk -- Secondary effects due to earthquakes -- Earthquake response analysis -- Economic issues of earthquakes -- Damage to tourism industry -- Impact and analysis of mass media information -- Earthquake and mental health.
  note: edited by Sebastiano D'Amico.
  subject:
    topic: Earth sciences
  subject:
    topic: Structural geology
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Geotechnical engineering
  subject:
    topic: Environmental economics
  subject:
    topic: Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Natural Hazards
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Economics
  subject:
    topic: Structural Geology
  classification: TA703-705.4
  classification: 624.151
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Natural Hazards
  identifier: 9783319217536
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21753-6
  record info:
    record creation date: 150928
    record change date: 20151030191315.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-21753-6