City Evacuations: An Interdisciplinary Approach

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Preston, John (Editor), Binner, Jane M. (Editor), Branicki, Layla (Editor), Galla, Tobias (Editor), Jones, Nick (Editor), King, James (Editor), Kolokitha, Magdalini (Editor), Smyrnakis, Michalis (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Complexity, Computational.; Sociology.; Complexity.; Sociology, general.

Evacuating a city is a complex problem that involves issues of governance, preparedness education, warning, information sharing, population dynamics, resilience and recovery. As natural and anthropogenic threats to cities grow, it is an increasingly pressing problem for policy makers and practitione...

Table of Contents:

• City Evacuations: their pedagogy and the need for an inter-disciplinary approach
• Unpacking the impacts of social media upon crisis communication and city evacuation
• Simulation of information spreading following a Crisis
• Quantitative decision-making rules for the next generation of smarter evacuations
• Decentralized optimisation of resource allocation in disaster management
• A Semi-automated Display for Geotagged Text
• Conclusion: evacuations and transmedia vulnerability.