Avoidable Deaths A Systems Failure Approach to Disaster Risk Management /

• Main Author: Ray-Bennett, Nibedita S. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science,
• Subjects: Natural disasters.; Environmental management.; Sustainable development.; Social policy.; Sociology.; Natural Hazards.; Environmental Management.; Sustainable Development.; Social Policy.; Sociology, general.

This book addresses one of the most fundamental questions of the 21st century: why deaths continue to occur in natural disasters despite the tremendous advancements in disaster management science and weather forecasting systems, increased sophistication of human-built environments and ongoing econom...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Avoidable Deaths in Disasters
• Chapter 2. Systems Failure in Disasters
• Chapter 3. Super-Cyclone in 1999
• Chapter 4. Cyclone Phailin in 2013
• Chapter 5: Systems Failure Revisited.